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Gameknight999, Minecraft Series #2
Battle for the Nether: A Gameknight999 Adventure
If you like Minecraft, you'll love this Gameknight999 adventure!
In Invasion of the Overworld, Gameknight999, a real person, is teleported into Minecraft. Now knowing the lives of all those within Minecraft-as well as those in the physical world-are depending on him, Gameknight will need to search the land to recruit an NPC army if they are to stand a fighting chance against Malacoda, the King of the Nether.
With epic battles, fiery blazes and spine-tingling suspense . . . Battle for the Nether takes the adventures of Gameknight999 to the next level in a nonstop roller-coaster ride of adventure.
Also in the series: Invasion of the Overworld
Battle for the Nether is an original work of fan fiction that is not associated with Minecraft or MojangAB. It is not sanctioned nor has it been approved by the makers of Minecraft.
In Invasion of the Overworld, Gameknight999, a real person, is teleported into Minecraft. Now knowing the lives of all those within Minecraft-as well as those in the physical world-are depending on him, Gameknight will need to search the land to recruit an NPC army if they are to stand a fighting chance against Malacoda, the King of the Nether.
With epic battles, fiery blazes and spine-tingling suspense . . . Battle for the Nether takes the adventures of Gameknight999 to the next level in a nonstop roller-coaster ride of adventure.
Also in the series: Invasion of the Overworld
Battle for the Nether is an original work of fan fiction that is not associated with Minecraft or MojangAB. It is not sanctioned nor has it been approved by the makers of Minecraft.
338 pages, Kindle Edition
First published August 26, 2014
226 people are currently reading
538 people want to read
About the author
Mark Cheverton
73 books214 followersMark Cheverton grew up in Southern California, going through high school, and college. After college, Mark taught high school physics and math for many years. While teaching, he earned a Master's degree in Physics and conducted research on planetary atmospherics. After moving to the east coast, he started doing research for a Fortune 100 company in the fields of machine vision and additive manufacturing. His first book, The Algae Voices of Azule, was released in 2012, followed by the sequel shortly after.
He recently released the first book in his Minecraft series, Invasion of the Overworld: A Minecraft Novel, which is expected to be followed by the sequel, Battle for the Nether, in early 2014.
He recently released the first book in his Minecraft series, Invasion of the Overworld: A Minecraft Novel, which is expected to be followed by the sequel, Battle for the Nether, in early 2014.
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February 21, 2015
THe king of the nether is a Gast. He has a huge army of zombie pig man, blazes and witherskeletons.
It is very adventurous. I like how Arabis and Malakoda join forces. They continue to compete even though they are working together.
It is very adventurous. I like how Arabis and Malakoda join forces. They continue to compete even though they are working together.
September 22, 2015
Well I think it was pretty good read about it. It was interesting when they started to fight back because mostly the Malacoda was destroying the villagers homes and families. I really felt bad for the villagers because there were killing the villagers families and some of their children.
May 27, 2016
This book is about a gamer in mine craft trying to protect the server. I like this book because they won the battle. I recommend this book to Frank because he likes mine craft
December 1, 2015
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March 7, 2016
WARNING!: This review has some spoilers!
"The Battle for the Nether" was... lets say the best out of the series. When I read this book I got addicted, but here and there it got kind of boring. I read most of this book during the ITBS testing, so I really got interested.
In this book Gameknight finally beats Erebus, this enderking, and has had been having emotional shock after wards. Everything would scare him, and he would often run. But he has to try and over come it, but it will take 100 destroyed villages to do so. After seeing the first village he meets some villagers, who told him what happened and what they did (In extreme detail). He learns that the village wasn't raided by zombies, but raided by other creatures. These creatures were from another dimension call the "Nether". This was a fiery and hellish, and had a lot of lava. There were zombie pigmen and terrible ghasts. But when Gameknight ventures in there he gets more than just that. he gets the king of the realm. This was Malacoda, who wanted to help bring down the world and get to the "source" and get to the real world. He was strong and was not as easy as all the other ghasts around the realm. Gameknight was dancing with his life.
I think this book was really good, and had a lot of action. This was a great improvement from the first book, and I was really glad that there were books on my favorite video game. This answered a lot of questions from the first book, and helped the reader get close to the characters. The book made computer programs have personalities and lives. I made me think if it was happing in my game (coarse not). But overall I think this book was a good sequel to the first. I believe this book is for 7th to 9th grade, because I think that those grades would be interested in something like this. I was a good book and I would want others to read it as well.
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derp
"The Battle for the Nether" was... lets say the best out of the series. When I read this book I got addicted, but here and there it got kind of boring. I read most of this book during the ITBS testing, so I really got interested.
In this book Gameknight finally beats Erebus, this enderking, and has had been having emotional shock after wards. Everything would scare him, and he would often run. But he has to try and over come it, but it will take 100 destroyed villages to do so. After seeing the first village he meets some villagers, who told him what happened and what they did (In extreme detail). He learns that the village wasn't raided by zombies, but raided by other creatures. These creatures were from another dimension call the "Nether". This was a fiery and hellish, and had a lot of lava. There were zombie pigmen and terrible ghasts. But when Gameknight ventures in there he gets more than just that. he gets the king of the realm. This was Malacoda, who wanted to help bring down the world and get to the "source" and get to the real world. He was strong and was not as easy as all the other ghasts around the realm. Gameknight was dancing with his life.
I think this book was really good, and had a lot of action. This was a great improvement from the first book, and I was really glad that there were books on my favorite video game. This answered a lot of questions from the first book, and helped the reader get close to the characters. The book made computer programs have personalities and lives. I made me think if it was happing in my game (coarse not). But overall I think this book was a good sequel to the first. I believe this book is for 7th to 9th grade, because I think that those grades would be interested in something like this. I was a good book and I would want others to read it as well.
Thanks!
derp
April 11, 2025
This was my favorite book (and also the first one I read) in the Gameknight999 series. It had amazing characters and a great plot line. If you’re into adventures in The Nether this book is for you. I recommend the whole series to Minecraft lovers.
October 13, 2018
Review by James, age 9, 10/13/18
This book is about Gameknight999. He loved playing Minecraft, but above all he loved to cheat, grief, and ruin the game experience for others. Until, one day, he was sucked into the game by his father's invention: the Digitizer. He is now inside the game, he feels pain, he feels it when he gets wet, he sees each of the monsters up close - he sees each and every detail of every one of them. NPCs are alive. All the monsters are trying to kill NPCs and animals to gain XP. When they get enough XP they move up to the next server. If they get to The Source, they'll be able to go through the gateway of light, aka the portal to the physical world.
In the first book he met Erebus, a power-mad Enderman leading a monster army to try to get to the Gateway of Light and rule the physical world. In this book, though, Erebus tries again and makes another monster army and is going to conquer this server and move onto the next again. But Erebus is overtaken by Malacoda, king of the Ghasts. He controls all portals, including Erebus's. (Endermen can teleport.) Erebus is at Malacoda's mercy, but Erebus has a huge army that is following him and not Malacoda. So they do work together, but Malacoda's plan is to use 13 diamond crafting benches to open a portal directly to The Source, using a massive army of nether monsters plus Erebus' army of overworld mobs.
Of course Gamerknight999 shows up with a huge army of NPCs with free hands. This means they can use swords and pickaxes.
How they win is the rest of the story.
I loved this book because it is an awesome Minecraft adventure. PS: I love Minecraft! I hope you do!
This book is about Gameknight999. He loved playing Minecraft, but above all he loved to cheat, grief, and ruin the game experience for others. Until, one day, he was sucked into the game by his father's invention: the Digitizer. He is now inside the game, he feels pain, he feels it when he gets wet, he sees each of the monsters up close - he sees each and every detail of every one of them. NPCs are alive. All the monsters are trying to kill NPCs and animals to gain XP. When they get enough XP they move up to the next server. If they get to The Source, they'll be able to go through the gateway of light, aka the portal to the physical world.
In the first book he met Erebus, a power-mad Enderman leading a monster army to try to get to the Gateway of Light and rule the physical world. In this book, though, Erebus tries again and makes another monster army and is going to conquer this server and move onto the next again. But Erebus is overtaken by Malacoda, king of the Ghasts. He controls all portals, including Erebus's. (Endermen can teleport.) Erebus is at Malacoda's mercy, but Erebus has a huge army that is following him and not Malacoda. So they do work together, but Malacoda's plan is to use 13 diamond crafting benches to open a portal directly to The Source, using a massive army of nether monsters plus Erebus' army of overworld mobs.
Of course Gamerknight999 shows up with a huge army of NPCs with free hands. This means they can use swords and pickaxes.
How they win is the rest of the story.
I loved this book because it is an awesome Minecraft adventure. PS: I love Minecraft! I hope you do!
October 26, 2017
I did not like this book because I do not really like the Nether. I enjoyed this book because I still liked the part when the main characters went to the Nether. I also enjoyed this book because I liked the part when the main characters got closer to the source. If the mobs reach the source, then they will get released into the physical world. I also enjoyed this book because I love Minecraft!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
May 24, 2019
The book Battle for the Nether By Mark Cheverton is the second book in the gamerknight999 series and even though, in my opinion, it was not as good as the first book Invasion of the Overworld by Mark Cheverton it was still a good book because it follows the same adventure from the first book.
Throughout the whole book, it goes through what has happened to this new server that they are on unlike the last server which they saved but Crafter and Gamerknight999(the user that is not a user) explore this world realizing that since they saved the last server there are still servers being overrun by mobs. So they go around gaining new allies and preparing for the Battle to come deep in the Nether.
I would recommend the whole series if you are into Fiction books that follow a long and dangerous adventure through the video game Minecraft. I am going to start reading the next book here very soon and that is the last book in this mini section of the series in total there are 18 books in this series but almost every single book is like 300 pages long.
Throughout the whole book, it goes through what has happened to this new server that they are on unlike the last server which they saved but Crafter and Gamerknight999(the user that is not a user) explore this world realizing that since they saved the last server there are still servers being overrun by mobs. So they go around gaining new allies and preparing for the Battle to come deep in the Nether.
I would recommend the whole series if you are into Fiction books that follow a long and dangerous adventure through the video game Minecraft. I am going to start reading the next book here very soon and that is the last book in this mini section of the series in total there are 18 books in this series but almost every single book is like 300 pages long.
January 30, 2015
What if it were possible to be transported into a virtual world? In Battle For The Nether, by Mark Cheverton, Gamknight999 continues is fight to defend the source. Battle For The Nether represents the element of suspense when Gameknight and Crafter are searching for a village, the reader doesn't know what will happen next. Battle For The Nether represents the element of emotion, when all the monsters on the server get away, all of the villagers feel unhappy, and believe that they have been defeated. Battle For The Nether represents the element of imagery, after crossing the bridge to nowhere, it describes that there is a structure made of strange white blocks. Battle For The Nether is a great ready for anyone who enjoys playing Minecraft!
February 4, 2016
The second book of this Gameknight999 trilogy is better than the first. I started this series because it interests my 7yr old son and we can talk about it - and it is his way of teaching me about Minecraft. I will finish this series because I am enjoying it. This second book deals well with the aftermath and transformation of Gameknight from griefer to hero and landing in a new server where he is filled with fear and doubts. The author, through the wise and trusty Crafter, eloquently deals with the concept of fear throughout the story and the building of confidence. It's great story telling of good vs evil and personal development all wrapped in Minecraft. I will more than likely read this one again and use these passages about fear for discussion with my son.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
September 6, 2016
Synopsis: battle against monsters to protect the real world from invasion.
Opinion: Amazing and interesting but I liked the first book better.
Positives: clever words and sentences, references to the game, good amount of chapter clifhangers.
Negatives: felt long, frustrating plot/conflict, some unessesary characters
Recommendations: I hate reading, but this I looked forward to. For people who like Minecraft, intense scenes and well discriptions, "touchy, creepy overlord monsters",and battle tactics.
Expectations: it didn't meet my first expectations, but showed me a new expectation and exceeded with that.
Response: emotionally, the book gave me " the feels". To loose everything and not give up hope. To be looked up too as something he's not.
Opinion: Amazing and interesting but I liked the first book better.
Positives: clever words and sentences, references to the game, good amount of chapter clifhangers.
Negatives: felt long, frustrating plot/conflict, some unessesary characters
Recommendations: I hate reading, but this I looked forward to. For people who like Minecraft, intense scenes and well discriptions, "touchy, creepy overlord monsters",and battle tactics.
Expectations: it didn't meet my first expectations, but showed me a new expectation and exceeded with that.
Response: emotionally, the book gave me " the feels". To loose everything and not give up hope. To be looked up too as something he's not.
January 30, 2015
How can a boy and his villager friends save a whole game. In Minecraft Adventures, Battle For The Nether by Mark Cheverton, one boy has to move to the next level to save Minecraft. This book shows the element of team work. The villagers have to help Gameknight999 defeat the Great Malcoda. This book also shows the element of humor. Gameknight and his villager friend are very funny and always cheer Gameknight on. Last but not least, this book shows the element of strategy. Gameknight and his friends have to sit for days in their house to figure out a plan. Gameknight will fight to the end to save his favorite game, MINECRAFT.
February 12, 2016
"That's where the battle continues, to the land of fire and lava." This quote is from the book Battle for the Nether by Mark Cheverton. This book resembles lot of sources of danger. Like the close calls from the near death experiences. Adventure is also a big word for this book. For the traveling through even different dimensions to stop this force of evil. Courage plays a big part in this book also. Like the many times the mane character has to face fears and battle against enemies. This book would be best for preteens and people who like twists and turns.
December 20, 2017
I think "Battle for the Nether" by Mark Cheverton is a cool action-packed, adventurous, funny, and heart warming book. I rate this book 4 stars because although I'm not really into heart-warming things, it still was quite action-packed and since it stars Minecraft player like myself, I could understand what he means in the book. This book has really helped me think of contraptions in Minecraft and changed the way I see Minecraft (of course it doesn't mean I'll ever stop griefing villagers with my brother but still, it's a good book).
October 29, 2014
Battle for the Nether: Mark Cheverton
The books genre was a story. Battle for the Nether is the sequel to Invasion of the overworld. Gameknight999 is trapped inside of the game mincraft. There is a prophecy where gameknight999 is the chosen one and he must stop monsters from getting to the source and destroying Minecraft. I rated this book 5 stars because it was really good and I liked how it takes place inside the videogame Minecraft.
The books genre was a story. Battle for the Nether is the sequel to Invasion of the overworld. Gameknight999 is trapped inside of the game mincraft. There is a prophecy where gameknight999 is the chosen one and he must stop monsters from getting to the source and destroying Minecraft. I rated this book 5 stars because it was really good and I liked how it takes place inside the videogame Minecraft.
June 10, 2016
I really liked this book it's about a kid who got sucked into Minecraft he and his villager friends have to save Minecraft and the real world from the enderman and the gast Malacoda. I recomend this book to people who like very detailed books and Minecraft.
November 8, 2017
I LOVED this book because I love minecraft. I think this book changes how I think of Erebus because he is a weakling compared to Malacoda. I also like this book because Gameknight999 is closer to the source!
February 17, 2020
Trop grand
Au mon dieu se livre est trop beau mais il y a un petit problem se livre est trop grand il y a 100 pages!!! Et on les passe les pages de 1 en 1 et pour avence 4,3 et 2 pour 1 pages ça c'est trop
Au mon dieu se livre est trop beau mais il y a un petit problem se livre est trop grand il y a 100 pages!!! Et on les passe les pages de 1 en 1 et pour avence 4,3 et 2 pour 1 pages ça c'est trop
February 21, 2015
Again, Really good.
Nothin' to say here. Second Book in the Series, REALLY, REALLY breathtaking after each chapter
Nothin' to say here. Second Book in the Series, REALLY, REALLY breathtaking after each chapter
June 24, 2015
Battle for the nether is an amazing book because it has lots of action and it teaches you things that you don't even know about Minecraft.
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March 21, 2017read-a-loud to the kids. They really liked it. They gave it five stars.
January 8, 2018
The main character was so brave even though his friend almost dead he said, " he is not dead"
January 28, 2018
This wasn't as good at the first one. The story dragged at places, going back over and over the emotional state of Gameknight.
May 9, 2018
Unexpectedly decent
July 18, 2018
These gameknight999 books are always awesome so i don't need to review each and every single one saying awesome book.
November 7, 2018
Just as good as the first
March 11, 2019
This was a very good book very picturing in your mind as I said in my previous reviews and previous books and it was like very thrilling and emotional journey Kinda.🙂
September 17, 2020
Un libro regular, yo sé que es para niños pero te entretiene si sos fan del juego.
Tiene varios errores y fallos y en lo que para mí gusto fue el peor y más evidente e irritante de todos fue la constante repetición de las "descripciones" por decirlo así de los monstruos en todas y cada una de las escenas que aparecían. No tardaba en aparecer un zombie o un esqueleto cuando el escritor tenía que decir que sus ojos encendidos estaban llenos de ira y odio por todo lo vivo....... y así lo repetía unas 2 millones de veces a lo largo de todo el libro, ESO NO SE HACE!!!!!!! Yo creo que con las 3 primeras veces que lo decía ya quedaba bastante claro.
Otro error muy notorio fue algo que yo llamo "El Síndrome de Juego de Tronos" que básicamente es poner a personajes muy muy muy jóvenes a tener actitudes y diálogos super adultos y maduros que la verdad chocan mucho y no van con el personaje que se intenta construir, en este caso el Gameknight999 tiene 12 años (o menos) y la verdad su manera de actuar no es para nada acorde a su edad.
De ahí en fuera es un libro digamos que entretenido, sin embargo no es un libro que releería ya que prácticamente Minecraft va demasiado actualizado y adelantado en comparación al mundo en donde se desarrolla el libro x lo que a estas alturas el libro es prácticamente obsoleto.
Tiene varios errores y fallos y en lo que para mí gusto fue el peor y más evidente e irritante de todos fue la constante repetición de las "descripciones" por decirlo así de los monstruos en todas y cada una de las escenas que aparecían. No tardaba en aparecer un zombie o un esqueleto cuando el escritor tenía que decir que sus ojos encendidos estaban llenos de ira y odio por todo lo vivo....... y así lo repetía unas 2 millones de veces a lo largo de todo el libro, ESO NO SE HACE!!!!!!! Yo creo que con las 3 primeras veces que lo decía ya quedaba bastante claro.
Otro error muy notorio fue algo que yo llamo "El Síndrome de Juego de Tronos" que básicamente es poner a personajes muy muy muy jóvenes a tener actitudes y diálogos super adultos y maduros que la verdad chocan mucho y no van con el personaje que se intenta construir, en este caso el Gameknight999 tiene 12 años (o menos) y la verdad su manera de actuar no es para nada acorde a su edad.
De ahí en fuera es un libro digamos que entretenido, sin embargo no es un libro que releería ya que prácticamente Minecraft va demasiado actualizado y adelantado en comparación al mundo en donde se desarrolla el libro x lo que a estas alturas el libro es prácticamente obsoleto.
January 30, 2020
I don't care if this book was meant for children. I had to read it aloud to my son, and since that meant I've read it, it'll get the same level of honesty the adult books I read for myself get.
Firstly, this is fanfiction and it irks me when people who use the work of others as a crutch actually get paid to do so. The universe and its creatures and functions obviously don't belong to the author and as a creator myself, I feel it's horribly disrespectful to take what someone else made and use that to make money.
Secondly, if he were going to do that, he could've at least given the "users" more respectable names. Gameknight999? I groan inwardly every time I see it on the page, especially when it's written just like that.
What's truly tragic is that the writing is rather decent. I wonder what this author could really do if he got loose of the chains of fanfiction and wrote something original. However, I've seen situations both in the art community and writing community where someone has skill but no talent, so it might be that this is another case of that.
If the writing hadn't been as well done as it was, I would've felt like I was being tortured. I love my son and he loves Minecraft, so I do what I must to see him smiling, but... ugh. Just UGH!
Firstly, this is fanfiction and it irks me when people who use the work of others as a crutch actually get paid to do so. The universe and its creatures and functions obviously don't belong to the author and as a creator myself, I feel it's horribly disrespectful to take what someone else made and use that to make money.
Secondly, if he were going to do that, he could've at least given the "users" more respectable names. Gameknight999? I groan inwardly every time I see it on the page, especially when it's written just like that.
What's truly tragic is that the writing is rather decent. I wonder what this author could really do if he got loose of the chains of fanfiction and wrote something original. However, I've seen situations both in the art community and writing community where someone has skill but no talent, so it might be that this is another case of that.
If the writing hadn't been as well done as it was, I would've felt like I was being tortured. I love my son and he loves Minecraft, so I do what I must to see him smiling, but... ugh. Just UGH!
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