Slaying the Beast

As I wake up from my tremendous slumber, unbenounced to me, it was the holidays. After I got up and had a beautiful, thirst quenching drink of water, I went back over to my comfy bed, and of course, got back in it and snuggled up into my blankets and pulled out my computer.

After going through the irritating task of re-starting my computer, I opened up my steam and saw that two of my friends were online, I thought to myself “How peculiar, out of my 58 friends, only two are online?” I was questioning this because at least five are bound to be on, no matter what. They were both in-game, and to my amusement, they were both playing the same game. I decided to join as a new character, big mistake. They were fighting The Destroyer Of Worlds, a 3200 foot metal monstrosity of a worm. I died, a lot. After they slayed the beast, they decided to fight The Twins; Two bulbous mechanical eyeballs. One of them shot a laser, the other one charges at us. After you get them about half health, they go through a transformation, turning them into absolute abominations. Spazmatism - the one that charges at us, and gains an acid-fire like breath. Retinazer on the other hand, gained an eyeball laser inside his pupil, just big enough to fit his iris.

After that occurred my friends decided to realise that I was in the server with them - as a new character - they bestowed upon me fifteen Life Crystals, nineteen Life Fruit and a full set of Hallowed armour, with a mask. I began to type in chat “Why?” But before I could even write in half of my question, they spawned in Skeletron Prime, a big hulking mechanical skull skull with four metal arms that have their own weapons, it began to hover above us, but before I could even blink, my friends terminated the beast, somehow.

About one hour and thirty minutes passed, we had defeated a couple more bosses with ease, and we were preparing to fight the Lunatic Cultist, the fanatic leader of the “Moon Lord” cult, our first try attempting to defeat him was an utter failure, because we didn't prepare enough. On our second attempt we did kill the Cultist, we weren't prepared for what was going to come next though, the four “Celestial Towers”. They are the key to fighting the final boss. We went after the Stardust pillar first, because it is arguably the easiest. Then we went on to the Vortex pillar, then the Nebula pillar, and finally the Solar, because it is the arguable hardest pillar. Afterwards, the world began to shake, slowly. It turned to night. The Moon Lord spawned, the final boss, the thing that the cultist was trying to summon, it took a long time, but we managed to saw off one of his hands, making it angrier. We defeated the middle eye, on his forehead, which disoriented him, allowing us to murder his other hand. His core opened up, allowing us to slay the horrific god. There was a sudden flash of light, he began to float up, then the Moon Lord exploded into little rocks and a prism, that was it, we had defeated the Moon Lord. We had finished the game.

I closed down my steam and realised the time, It was five hours ago that I joined my friends’ server. My throat was quite dry, so I decided to go grab a drink of water after a hard day of gaming.

By Zach.