"One Bloody Manowar for you," Robyn said.

The names of the fish Bart the Angler kept sending her to catch kept on getting more and more ridiculous, especially since they all actually existed and not one had been a story he'd just made up. The Bunnyfish, the Derpfish, even a Dynamite Fish at one point. The Demolitionist had lost that last one because it had 'grown fins and swum away,' then Bart had stuck it in Durim's toilet for a rather... explosive surprise.

"Woah. You actually did what I asked, and survived?" The Angler looked incredulous. "You're still in one piece though, how boring!" He scratched at his curly brown hair beneath his hat. "Now your reward... take this life preserver!"

He thrust a big white rubber ring in Robyn's arms.

"I've already got one of these."

"Hey, you get what yer given, errand monkey! Anyway, you are done, the grand Bart dismisses you!"

Being used to his rudeness, she left the Angler's hut, went through the Ocean Pylon to the Forest Village, and headed towards the newly-completed storage building in the middle of town. William had built it to look like a giant chest, complete with iron bricks making up its latch and stone and wood making up the casing.

She flicked a switch, causing the blocks on the front entrance to turn transparent. The Mechanic had sold William a lot of the wiring he'd needed for creating this fancy door. The blocks that turned transparent were possible thanks to invisible devices named actuators. When he'd tried to explain wiring to her it had seemed confusing and a bit nonsensical - something about the wiring being invisible unless you held a wrench? At least it worked.

When she stepped inside, she spotted the distinctive blonde hair and green jungle armour of Meg.

She was rifling through a chest close to the ground on a shelf to the left.

"Oh, hi..." she peered directly at her, probably reading her label, "Robyn! How are you?"

"What are you doing in here?"

"I am searching for seeds."

Seeds? "What for?"

"For planting and brewing potions."

"We've got potions," Robyn said. "I sometimes get them from crates that I fish up."

Meg pointed out a finger at her. "That's right, you're the fisherman of the group. Fisherwoman, rather. You must be very respected by Will and Sid, your stockpile of fish is bountiful."

"I just fish a lot," Robyn mumbled.

Meg nodded. "Well, I brewed a lot of potions while I was in the jungle. They mostly required herbs and a few other ingredients, which were easy to come by. The jungle's bursting with them. I'm not sure if I would have survived there without them."

Robyn remembered there being some plants growing in pots next to Meg's hut. "Did you wake up in the jungle?" she asked. "The rest of us all woke up in the same place here in the forest."

"I did. I couldn't explore far from where I put my hut because of jungle bats and the Snatcher plants. I never knew the rest of you guys were out there. Sometimes... it got... lonely. I found myself better at handling the underground by keeping to the less wide-open spaces. I collected jungle spores from the grass and stingers from hornets, which I used to craft my armour." She gestured at her attire. "Then I mined some rubies and gold and used it to craft this ruby staff right here." She held it out for Robyn to see. "You've seen falling stars before, right?"

Robyn nodded, though was a bit unsure at her sudden change in conversation. During the night, streaks of light could often be seen in the sky that would slam down on the ground, leaving behind a yellow star item that would glow and sparkle with radiance. Robyn had tried crafting them into jester arrows before, but they'd been hard to come by and didn't provide much in the way of arrow count.

"I got a lot of them while waiting for herbs to grow for potions," Meg went on. "I crafted them all into Mana Crystals, letting me use my staff for a very long time before draining, and then began using them in magic power and regeneration potions. With that, I practically had mastery of the jungle. Could have called myself Jungle Queen. But then I made the dumb mistake of digging into a beehive, and coming across an actual queen." She chuckled.

"Why did you go in the beehive?" Robyn asked.

"I suppose I was just... overconfident? I'd generally stayed away from them, thanks to my common sense from what I remember about real life. But I was not expecting to come across such a behemoth of a queen! Or for her to trap me in that larva. I was stuck in there for... I don't know how long. And when I got cut out... I was not expecting to see William there." She smiled, which caused Robyn to cringe.

God, no, what if she likes him too? Aahh! She wasn't sure if she could handle being in the losing corner of a love triangle.

"Anyway, that's my story," Meg said, suddenly giving another one of her trademark smiles. "What about you, Robbie? Can I call you Robbie? Got any epic tales? It's so nice getting to know you all."

"Um... I prefer Robyn," she said. "I guess we got attacked by a giant flying eyeball, then found a giant flying brain in the Crimson, then a giant flying skeleton..."

"Why are there so many giant flying things in this world? Couldn't whoever created the world come up with anything cooler?" When Robyn didn't respond, she just smiled again and said, "You're a quiet one. Which I totally get. But anyway, the village Guide, Andrew, was telling me that some of the fish you've been catching can be brewed into new types of potions. Such as Endurance, Heartreach, Rage..."

"You can take it all," Robyn said.

"Oh. Really? Just like that? Thank you so much!" Meg flashed yet another wide smile and adding two thumbs-ups. "With the herbs I've been growing, I'll be able to make so many potions for you all! We will all be unstoppable killing machines!" She flexed her arms like a bodybuilder. "You definitely won't regret this!"

Robyn returned her smile but still felt a sickening feeling inside.

***

William watched Sid throw bomb after bomb into the hole.

He and Sid were searching the Jungle for Life Crystals and also for Anklets of the Wind, largely so everyone could upgrade their Spectre Boots to Lightning Boots.

"I don't think I've ever been this deep before," William said. "There's lava everywhere down here."

"Me neither," Sid said. "I'm surprised the entire place isn't on fire."

William chuckled as Sid dropped down into the hole. He followed him, and they emerged into a small cavern. Sid pointed his Hornet Staff at some Spiked Jungle Slimes and they shot forward, shooting stingers into the slimes. He'd used Bee Wax dropped from the Queen Bee to craft the staff as well as the new set of Bee Armour he was wearing, which in tandem with his Bewitching Table and the Pygmy Necklace he'd bought from the Witch Doctor allowed him to have five summons at once.

William then spotted a large mahogany tree, which they dug into the side of and checked the chest within. One last Anklet of the Wind – they now had one for everybody.

"It feels like we've explored and dealt with all the major threats from every biome now," William said. "The Snow, Desert, Crimson, Dungeon, and now the Jungle."

"Yeah, I agree," Sid said. "I think we've achieved what we originally set out to do. Become stronger than everything in the world. There have been a few close calls, but things have been largely safe for us all ever since we destroyed the Brain of Cthulhu."

"Unless there are other places beyond the Oceans," William said.

"I don't think there are," Sid said. "I checked using a Water Walking Potion at some point. The Oceans all have some sort of invisible wall I can't pass, and nothing but water visible beyond them. It's the edge of the Earth."

"The sky's a no-go too," William said. "When I used a Gravitation Potion to get my Starfury from a floating island, I tried seeing how high I could go. The sky got dark enough that I might have almost entered space, but eventually I hit an invisible ceiling that flipped my gravity back to normal. There's nothing up there."

"So there really is nothing else for us to deal with," Sid said. "The world is in our hands."

It's a cage, William couldn't help thinking.

"Unless there's something still to find deep underground," Sid added. "I haven't yet found any invisible wall at the bottom of the world. Or some sort of unbreakable stone, like what's in that temple."

"What about the Cultists?" William asked. "Or the temple? Do you think there is any way to enter it at all?" Meg had taken them to the entrance to show them – a locked door with a keyhole – but none of the keys that they'd obtained from the Dungeon worked on it. Not even the Witch Doctor could get it open.

"There should be," Sid said. "But I think as long as the Witch Doctor's people don't bother us from their temple, we'll all be fine. And as for the Cultists... we'll keep searching the Dungeon, see if they'll show their faces or if there's some sort of secret door we missed. But without the Mechanic, they can't finish trying to bring Cthulhu back to life." He held up his Magic Mirror. "I'll pop back up to the surface."

William nodded. "I might check around for some more Life Crystals."

"Alright." Sid vanished in a spray of blue sparks.

William considered what Sid had said. They had started out in this world struggling to survive against basic zombies. Now they were practically the peacekeepers of the planet. Everything that could be a threat to them had either been destroyed or detained.

As they had just talked about, the only loose ends were the Lihzahrd Temple and the Cultists in the Dungeon. But William felt confident that even if either did become a threat, he and his friends would be able to deal with them. Just like how they'd been able to deal with everything else that had attacked them in the past.

He kept digging downwards. The mud he was mining through soon turned to a strange, purplish silt. Ash Blocks. He'd never gotten this type of block before.

He kept digging down, and soon emerged into a massive cave.

It was like a brand new world down here, stretching out in all directions. But this one was covered with ash and lava. A square, black building rose up in the distance, lit with eerie purple torches.

Hell. The Underworld. That's what this place was.

Then he spotted two monsters flying towards them. Their red skin glowed in the orange light of the lava, their leathery grey wings flapped hard, and glowing purple sickles emanated in their hands before being thrown forward.

"Nope," William said, before sealing up the way he'd cut out.