The Bedrock Golem - Wizard Craft 3.0 - Chapter 18 - A Bedtime Adventure

0:04 Hello, friends from across the nation and around the world. I'm Martin, and you, well, you are listening to Dad's Bedtime Stories. Uh, and if you're looking for bedtime stories that aren't, uh, you know, about two carrots learning to share or something like that, you've come to the right place. You've come to the right place, and today... We're jumping back into the Wizardcraft series, a world where you have been sucked into a video game that has been inspired by many video games I've played and played with my kids.

0:46 And you kind of have to survive. Let's see if we have a suggestion for today. Hi, my name is Christian.

0:54 I want a Wizardcraft 3.0 game. And it's about you going into the mines as deep as you can, and you find a golem that's like 30 feet times bigger than a Nazarite golem. And it's called a bedrock golem, and it's crazy.

1:18 Grayson, that's a fantastic idea. And one of the reasons I know it's a fantastic idea is because... I've had a lot of people in the Spotify comments also asking for a bedrock golem. So I thought it would be a great idea to do. And also I heard it's your birthday very soon. I want to say on like Saturday.

1:46 Did I get that right? Well, either way, I decided to go ahead and do the episode because I thought it was a good idea. And it was a good suggestion. So happy birthday. I hope you like it. I'm not sure I could make the golem 30 times bigger than a netherite golem. Because that would be maybe too big. But they'll be a lot bigger than a netherite golem.

2:10 I can promise you that. And before we get started, I do want to give a couple special shoutouts to some of my newest Patreon sponsors. Thank you to Zeke. who is 8 years old, about to turn 9 in December, and who I also hear is going out for Halloween as Venom. I hope I didn't give away your costume to anybody, though. I really appreciate you joining us on Patreon and supporting the podcast. And if anyone else wants to do that, there should be a link in the show notes. You get to add free episodes... any other random things I release, like the graphic novels I'm working on right now, or, probably more importantly, the Wizardcraft game.

3:02 That's right, I've created, or directed the creation of, a Wizardcraft game. It's kind of an old-school setup with new school building and crafting sort of menus. And it has a lot of things inspired by the series, including JD. He's in it. We've got Grayson. I think it's a different Grayson than this Grayson who left the message, but Grayson, the inventor guy, is in it. And there's even a diamond mech suit, which I haven't even unlocked yet because I haven't gotten that far in my own game. If you want to check that out, the link to it is on Patreon right now, and I'm going to be updating it as I get new ideas and that sort of thing. And if you want links to anything else I have, I have recently been working on my DadsBedtimeStories.com website.

4:01 So from there, you can get to the books, you can get to the new game, the Cards of Power game. And, of course, you can get links to submitting story ideas to Patreon, kind of everything. And if there's anything missing on it, just let me know, and I will have it added. But now, it's that time again. Time to get as comfy as you can in that bed, to close your eyes, and imagine yourself doing what the kid in the story does. You wake up to the familiar set of words floating in front of your eyes. Wake up?

4:43 You mentally select yes, and the world slowly forms around you. You're lying in your bed inside Royal Hill Village. Almost immediately, the all-knowing voice begins to speak. Congratulations! Character progress summary available today. Current Player Level Level 12 Unused Skill Points 0 Current Skills Unlocked Lockpicking Level 3 Ninjutsu Combat Level 2 Arcane Engineer Level 3 Cyborg Animal Control Skill Level 3 Dominance Breaker Novice Dragon Rider Adept Dragon Rider. Current Wizard Abilities. Advanced Wizard. Fire Master. Current Spells Unlocked. Stone Golem.

5:48 Copper Golem. Iron Golem. Golden Golem. Diamond Golem. Laser Golem. Emerald Cat Golem. Netherite Golem. Cloud Golem. Fire Magic Level 4. Telekinesis. Level 3 Earth Magic Level 2 Lightning Magic Level 2 Animal Control Level 2 Current Equipment Iron Sword Sword of Stolen Skills Flying Diamond Golem Mech Suit Upgraded Armored Car Current Mounts Giant Hawk Void Dragon Flying Nimbus Current active settlement, Royal Hill Village. The screen flickers and the voice reappears. Congratulations!

6:45 Your continued magical development, exploration, and the growth of Royal Hill Village have increased your level. You have reached level 13. New skill point awarded. You have one unused skill point. Perfect, you say. You think about opening the skill menu, but before you get a chance, somebody starts hammering on the front door. You jump out of bed, pull the door open, and find Brielle standing outside. You need to come to the dragon roost.

7:28 What?

7:28 What happened? You ask. Brielle smiles. An egg is Hatching?

7:35 Oh.

7:38 You immediately rush outside. Brielle leads you up the pathway toward the top of Royal Hill Mountain. By the time you reach the Dragon Roost, JD, Grayson, Gus, and several members of Brielle's dragon-taming family are already gathered around the Everflame. The Magical fire you created yesterday is still burning brightly in the middle of the roost, and sitting beside it is one large green egg. A crack appears across the shell, then another. JD crouches closer. Green light begins shining through the cracks. The egg wiggles, and with a crack... A tiny green snout pushes through the shell. A moment later, the egg breaks apart and a little green dragon crawls out.

8:44 Its scales are bright green. Small leaf-like fins grow along the back of its neck and two tiny branch-shaped horns curl out above its eyes. The baby dragon looks around. First at Brielle, then at you, then at Grayson, and then at Gus, and finally, it looks at JD. The dragon slowly waddles toward him. JD smiles. Hey, little guy.

9:21 The dragon climbs onto his boot, then up his leg, then all the way onto his shoulder. JD freezes. Brielle laughs. Well, I guess we know who it chooses. JD turns to water. Wait, seriously? Brielle nods. Dragons choose their riders, at least when they can. The nature dragon rubs its head against JD's cheek. A tiny flower suddenly sprouts from the ground beside his foot.

10:02 JD looks down. Did he do that? Brielle smiles. Looks like it. JD sits down beside the ever flame with the little dragon curled in his lap. You look over at Grayson. Well, I think we lost JD for the day. Probably, Grayson answers, which is actually fine because there's something I've been thinking about.

10:34 Oh?

10:37 The crystal level. You immediately know what he means. You want more crystals. I want to know what they can do. Grayson corrects. Those things are basically magical machine parts waiting to happen. We barely explored the place. You look back at JD. The nature dragon is now trying to chew on the end of his sleeve. Sounds like a two-person trip.

11:10 Not long afterwards, you and Grayson are standing in the entrance to the Royal Hill Mine. You summon your diamond golem mech suit. Grayson does the same. The backs open, and the two of you climb inside. Your neural connector presses against the back of your head. That familiar tingling sensation passes through you, and instantly, you stop feeling as though you're sitting inside a machine. Instead, you become the machine.

11:47 You flex your enormous diamond fingers, the shoulder lasers move with your eyes, and you can feel your mana pumping through the machine itself, ready to cast any spell you can cast, with a bit of a boost to it. Ready? Grayson asks. Ready, you respond. The two of you squeeze into the elevator and descend. Copper floor, iron floors, gold floors, diamond floors. And finally, the elevator opens onto the crystal level.

12:31 You step out. Even after seeing it before, the place is incredible. Huge crystals grow from the floor and ceiling. Red, blue, green, white, purple... Some glow with heat, others drip water. Some pulse with stored magical energy. Grayson immediately starts gathering samples. You carefully break crystals away from the wall using the mech's hands.

13:07 You collect blue water crystals, pale blue ice crystals. Clear crystals that seem capable of storing mana or something. At least that's what your skills seem to tell you. Purple crystals that remind you of portal magic. Maybe portal crystals. Then you notice something different. A dark red gemstone buried deep inside the rock. You aim one shoulder laser... And carefully blast away the stone surrounding it. The ruby-like gem drops into your giant hand. It feels strangely warm. Powerful.

13:56 Grayson walks closer.

13:57 Wow.

14:00 And then... Your arcane engineer skill activates. You look at the ruby. Then... at your shoulder, laser. Then, well, back at the ruby, something clicks inside your head. Grayson? Yeah? I think I have an idea. Alright, he nods. The gemstone isn't simply holding magical energy. It seems like it has the capability to focus or enhance magical energy. You suddenly understand how the power from your mech's magical cells could be forced through the ruby before leaving the cannon, concentrating a wide beam into something much tighter and, well, far more powerful. You both climb out of your mech suits immediately. Right there on the cavern floor, You begin pulling apart the laser housings. Grayson reroutes copper wires. You

15:17 create new focusing chambers. Then, you carefully mount pieces of ruby crystals inside each cannon. The final pieces click into place. Congratulations, the all-knowing voice announces. New invention created. focused ruby laser. Magical energy output and beam concentration significantly increased. Warning! Increased energy concentration may result in rapid overheating. You look at Grayson.

16:00 Worth it? You ask. Definitely worth it, he replies. You climb back into the mech suit's The neural systems reconnect. All right, Grayson says. Test target time. You look toward a huge crystal-covered boulder, and you fire. A brilliant red beam explodes from your shoulder. With a boom, the entire boulder shatters. You just, well, stare. Grayson fires his own.

16:38 Another section of wall erupts into pieces. Oh, this is going to make mining a lot easier, you announce. And the two of you begin blasting through the cavern. Ruby laser after ruby laser. Though, well, the voice wasn't wrong. The lasers do seem to be getting hot quickly. Nonetheless, huge sections of rock break apart. Crystals and gemstones rain onto the floor. You collect rubies, emeralds, monocrystals, ice crystals, water crystals, and all sorts of gems you haven't even identified.

17:25 This is super easy, you say. Grayson laughs. You fire another blast, and then, Your shoulder cannon makes a strange whining noise. The laser shuts down. Warning! Focused ruby laser overheated. Cooling required. A second later, Grayson's does the same thing. Well, there's the problem. You wait for the cannons to cool and then you continue. blasting and blasting and blasting, until eventually you aim at one particularly dense section of stone.

18:17 The ruby laser tears straight through it. The wall collapses, and behind it is darkness. You walk closer and see a staircase, a huge staircase leading downward, Grayson looks at you. Well, that looks promising. Maybe there's something under the crystal level. So, without really questioning it, the two of you begin descending.

18:53 The staircase winds downward far longer than any other staircase you've ever found in the mines. Down and down and down and down. until eventually an orange glow appears. You take the final few steps and emerge in an enormous cavern. You stop. Everything around you is dark, other than the, well, soft glow from lava, which somehow is producing light. The walls, the floor, even parts of the ceiling are made out of a rock you can't identify. Bedrock, Grayson says. It's known for being almost indestructible. Logs. flows through huge cracks in the floor, and it seems to be flowing from little lava waterfalls that are spread all over the place.

20:03 But that's not the most incredible part. Embedded Almost everywhere around you are resources. Gold, diamond, emeralds, crystals, rubies, and even tiny dark deposits that look suspiciously like netherite. Grayson slowly turns around. This might be the richest place we've ever found that anyone's ever found. You move toward a ruby deposit embedded in the wall. Well, we have super laser mining now. You aim and fire. The ruby beam slams into the rock. Cracks spread outward. Then, the entire cavern rumbles. What was that, you ask? I don't know.

21:07 The ground shakes again. A huge section of bedrock rises upward. Then another. Something is pulling itself free from the cavern floor. Two enormous arms emerge. Then a head. Then a body. A golem. A golem. A golem way bigger than even your netherite golems. And it looks like it's made almost entirely out of bedrock. The creature looks down at you.

21:47 Its eyes glow deep orange. Grayson slowly backs away. The bedrock golem swings. His fist slams into your mech suit. You go flying across the cavern and smash into the wall hard enough to crack part of your diamond armor. Grayson immediately fires both ruby lasers. The concentrated beam strikes the bedrock golem directly in the chest and, well, it seems to actually react. It steps backwards. Then Grayson's lasers overheat and shut down. BEFORE DOING ENOUGH DAMAGE. WARNING! LASERS OVERHEATED!

22:38 THE ALL-KNOWING VOICE SAYS. OH NO. YOU STAND UP. YOUR OWN CANONS GLOW. AND YOU UNLEASH BOTH BEAMS DIRECTLY AT THE SAME PLACE GRACEN HIT. THE LASERS BURN AGAINST THE BEDROG GOLEM'S CHEST. FOR JUST A MOMENT. The dark stone begins glowing faintly red, and then, well, your cannons overheat as well. The bedrock golem looks down at you. Uh-oh.

23:12 Then it charges. You fire lightning. Electricity dances across its body and nothing. You attempt to unleash fire, the most powerful fire you can muster. Still nothing. You reach into the ground using earth magic and attempt to control the bedrock itself. You can feel it, but it barely moves. The bedrock golem grabs you. It lifts your entire mech suit over its head, then throws you across the cavern.

23:50 You slam into Grayson. Both of you crash into the ground. WARNING! Mechanical damage detected. Right shoulder laser damaged. Chest armor compromised. Grayson slowly gets back to his feet. I think we might want to consider running away. Yep, you agree. The bedrock golem roars and charges again. You and Grayson turn towards the staircase. and run as fast as you can.

24:30 Huge footsteps shake the cavern behind you. Your laser is recovered just enough for one more shot. You turn and fire it into the ceiling. Stone explodes downward between you and the bedrock golem. It obviously won't stop him, but hopefully it'll slow him down. You and Grayson reach the staircase. and race upward, because now you know two very important things.

25:03 The bedrock golem can actually be hurt, and next time you visit him, you're bringing everyone you can possibly find. You eventually make it back to the elevator, and, well, both mech suits look terrible. Neither of you says much on the ride up, When the elevator finally reaches the top, Grayson steps out. Well, the good news is that the ruby focusing system definitely works. But the bad news is we both almost got flattened by an indestructible rock monster. Yeah, that part was not ideal, you respond. Grayson climbs out of his mech suit and starts inspecting the shoulder cannons.

25:55 He pulls off one of the damaged panels. It isn't the ruby that's the problem. What is? The heat. He points toward the cannon housing. We're concentrating way more magical energy through the laser than the original system was ever designed to handle. It gets too hot and the safety system shut everything down. You think about the crystals sitting inside your inventory. Wait, what about the water crystals or the ice crystals? Maybe we could use them to, you know, cool things down. Grayson pauses and then slowly looks up at you. Water crystals and ice crystals? His eyes widen.

26:50 He starts smiling.

26:51 Oh.

26:53 I have an idea. He grabs both mech suits. I'm taking these to the workshop. Can you fix them? Fix them? I'm gonna make them better than ever. He immediately absorbs them both into his inventory. Ah, that's a little bit too much, he says as he starts to waddle down the staircase. As if his belly were too full or Something like that. You decide to find more help in the meantime. That was the plan, after all. You head towards the dragon roost first. When you get there, you immediately hear JD laughing. You climb the last section of the mountain and find him laying on the grass beside the everflame. The tiny nature dragon is jumping around him.

27:52 Every time one of its little feet touches the ground, something grows. A flower, a patch of grass, a tiny vine. J.D. puts his hand down beside it. This guy is awesome, J.D. says. He does look pretty awesome, you agree? J.D. looks up and notices your condition. Ripped clothes, little burn patches on your shoulders. What happened to you? Well, I think we found the bottom of the mines. JD sits up. You did? Maybe, anyways.

28:36 You think about it. At least we found bedrock. And? And the bedrock stood up and tried to destroy us.

28:48 Oh.

28:50 It's a bedrock golem. bigger than the netherite golem and almost nothing hurts it jd stands up so obviously you need me obviously he looks toward the little nature dragon and the creature looks back at him you're staying here little buddy the dragon makes a tiny disappointed noise No, no, no, you just hatched today. I'm not bringing you down to fight an enormous bedrock golem. That would be crazy. Brielle approaches from one of the nesting caves. Fight a... a what?

29:32 You explain. Her expression changes from concern to interest surprisingly quickly. You're gonna need dragons. I'm gonna need everything, you say, and Brielle smiles. Then you came to the right place. Within the next hour, Royal Hill Village starts preparing for what looks less like a and more like an invasion.

30:02 You mentally call your void dragon, who emerges from one of the healing caves. He looks better than ever. Brielle's family has apparently done an incredible job. He stretches out and flaps his wings. He shouldn't really be flying for long yet, Brielle said, but he can probably go into caves. Can he fight, you ask? And in response, the dragon growls. Apparently, he thinks he can. All right, buddy, just take it easy.

30:43 You gather the three netherite golems. You gather all of the diamond golems, including the laser diamond golem, of course. Brielle and a small group of dragon riders prepare their strongest dragons. JD brings his mech suit over to Grayson, who works on it with the two of yours. Before long, Grayson eventually wraps up his work at the workshop. You find your mech suit looking almost new. Actually, better than new.

31:21 Thin blue crystal tubing runs around the shoulder cannons. and pale ice crystals glow behind each laser housing. Grayson taps the side. Magical closed-loop cooling. You stare at it. Does it work? Probably.

31:41 Probably?

31:43 I didn't have a bedrock golem to test it on, but I know where one is. Fair enough, you say. You climb inside the mech suit and your neural connection activates. Warning! Focused ruby laser cooling system detected. Maximum sustained firing duration significantly increased. You grin. Alright. The elevator trip down takes forever because there are simply too many of you. You have to go in several groups, especially considering the netherite golems take up pretty much the whole thing on their own.

32:31 So do most of the dragons, but eventually everyone gathers in the crystal level. Then you lead them toward the hidden staircase and head down, down, and further down until you finally reach the bedrock lair. For a second, nothing happens, and then the floor shakes. Here we go, Grayson says. The bedrock golem rises from the cavern floor again, its orange eyes light up. You point towards it and yell, Attack!

33:13 The entire cavern explodes into chaos. The netherite golems charge first, tackling the thing's legs. All three slam into them at once, which significantly affects the creature's stability. Diamond golems pile in behind them, and the laser diamond golem continues to blast the thing with his laser, again, again, and again. They climb up the bedrock golem, and he begins pulling them off and throwing them around the cave. Brielle's wind dragon flies up into the air, and a hurricane-like blast smashes into the golem. It slides several feet across the cavern.

34:05 Another dragon breathes fire. Another releases a sort of freezing mist. JD raises both mech arms. and fires his lightning. Then, you, JD, and Grayson all activate your new ruby lasers. Six brilliant beams of laser hit the bedrock golem directly in the chest. The water crystals inside your cannons begin glowing. The ice crystals flash, and the weapons keep firing and firing and firing. Yes, Grayson yells, as the golem's chest begins turning red. The creature tries to keep moving, which makes it hard to keep the laser concentrated. Hold it down, you yell, and the netherite golems do their best. But it's really your void dragon that saves the day. He opens his mouth, and fires a black sphere to the, well, back of

35:20 the bedrock golem. Suddenly, the golem gets sucked into the little sphere. It doesn't get absorbed entirely, but it does get stuck, which allows the three of you to concentrate your laser on a single area inside the creature's chest. It gets redder, and redder, the cracks grow larger and larger. Hit it with everything you've got, everyone in the same spot, you command. Lasers, fire, some sort of weird freeze power, and bolts of lightning all connect with the direct center of the bedrock golem. The cracks spread further, and eventually...

36:15 the golem explodes. A shower of bedrock, dust, and, well, a whole bunch of different sorts of gems follows. It takes a while before you can actually see anything, but as the dust settles, you find a golden chest sitting on the ground.

36:41 Wow. Cool.

36:43 Cool.

36:45 You walk toward it and the chest unlocks itself. Inside are a whole bunch of jewels with two books sitting on top. You grab the first one. Bedrock Golem Spell.

37:05 Yes.

37:07 You pick up the second. The cover shows a person surrounded by faded images of themselves as though they're moving too fast to see properly. Your eyes widen. No way. And the all-knowing voice speaks. Congratulations, you have discovered the Time Magic Spellbook and the Bedrock Golem Spellbook. Time magic allows you to manipulate your personal temporal flow, changing the speed at which you exist and making you seem far faster, or far slower if you choose, to everyone around you.

37:59 The golem spell allows you to summon one bedrock golem every decade. Every decade? Every decade? Ten years? That's crazy, you say. Though, it does seem like a wildly powerful creature. Wouldn't really be great if there were a lot of them running around the world. You spend the next little while collecting gems, cleaning up the lower level, but eventually you start to feel rather tired. You wave goodbye to your friends, I think I better go to bed, you say?

38:43 All these battles have me a little bit sleepy. I'm going with you. I need to go check on my dragon, JD says. Don't leave me behind. I think we've cleared up as much of this place as we possibly can. And so, you and your entire crew heads back up the long staircase, and takes turns heading up the elevator as soon as you get to the top you deactivate your mech suit climb out of the back absorb it into your inventory and head straight to your house you climb into the bed pull the covers up to your chin and a prompt appears sleep now? it asks you agree and a wave of fatigue passes through your entire body Almost immediately, the tension leaves your arms and legs, your neck, your face, your chest, and with every breath,

40:02 you sink down deeper and deeper into the mattress, and your mind wanders off to thoughts of new dreams, new adventures, and new spells to come. Good night, everyone. Good night.

41:31 Thank you. Thank you.

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52:08 Amen.

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