13 What do you want?

Since she Song Ming was young, she had to go through the strict regime of her family. She had rules to follow, a reputation to keep, a name to live up to. Hide your emotions, treat others with respect, cannot love, cannot hate...

She had a brother who took care of her every wish, kind old grandparents and a loving younger sister. But, her parents were too strict with her and too busy to even take care of her. Even now, all the kids in her class were jealous of her, envy and greed filled their eyes when they looked at her which made her afraid of them not allowing her to have any friends. What they didn't realise was the responsibilities that came with being a so called 'princess'. She herself was jealous, jealous that her parents never came to pick her up from school, jealous when they never took her to eat ice cream, sad when they forgot her class, sad when they weren't their on her birthdays...

But then she found her peace in the gaming world. No one knew who she was and didn't care about her money or personal life. Some boys did try to hit on her in online games but she just ignored them. Soon she realised that she was pretty good at games, her name spread all across the gaming world and she was even awarded the title of the best player of the previous most popular MMORPG. She won competition after competition become a terrifying existence in the gaming world.

Meanwhile her training to be a lady continued as she learned to hide all emotions. behind her smiling face. Then, Road of God was released and when she learned about it, she so happy that she wanted to smile actually for once in her life but she didn't, she was able to control her emotions.

When she had learned to completely control her emotions, she never imagined that their would come a day that she would lose that control and that too over an NPC in the game. That guy she thought, just what was he. When he sang, even her heart had trembled, no wonder his grandfather had told him to never use that voice of his...

She tried to forget hose terrible memories as she joined up with her guild members to begin planning the hunt. Since she had already seen the Greenwood Spirit, she filled her members up on it and they began editing their original plan accordingly.

Their meeting went on for roughly half an hour but they still couldn't decide on how to fight this demon. Just when another person was about to suggest his idea, they heard a rustle behind them as a figure of a person appeared. He was covered in dust and injuries, his face was completely swollen and his clothes torn, Flame Princess wouldn't even have recognised him in not for his voice.

"I finally found you." Shouted Lin Fang as he looked at her with excitement.

Only he knew how painful this last half an hour had been for him. The Greenwood Spirit had appeared twice in the last half hour but each time it didn't try to kill him, it aimed for a non-lethal spot on his body so that he would feel a terrible pain but not die from it. The spirit was not kidding about the painful death.

Lin Fang had been running around the forest for his life as looked for her. He had almost given up hope about finding her, thinking that he would die here today. He stood up and moved towards Flame Princess but her guards blocked him 10 meters away from her.

Flame Princess didn't know what to think about this guy, he was a weakling with not so strong combat power but his escape abilities were off the charts, to escape from her for so long wasn't easy, nor was surviving the assault of the Greenwood spirit but this new adventure actually did it. She had gotten more curious about his class now.

"What do you want?" ,She asked with the same smile on her face.

"I have a proposition that could benefit both of us.", He said. His swollen face really made all of this very amusing for her.

"Oh! Really", she said in a long tone clearly not believing that he had something to offer which she didn't already have.

He nodded his head looking behind anxiously as he said," Yes, if you would jus-"

Before he could finish his sentence a huge thumping was heard and Lin Fang's expression turned from anxious to despair as he bypassed the guards and hid behind them.

"3 times a strike vile brat, I am tired of playing this game, its time to DIE." A voice came from behind the bushes, after fighting for so long, the Greenwood spirit had already realised that he wasn't a human at all but a demon, this enraged it even more as it wouldn't allow any other demons in its territory, only normal animals. In its rage it became so mad that it ignored Flame Princess and her group and went straight for Lin Fang.

"AAH", Lin Fang screamed as he started to run again.

"Men, attack"

Meanwhile how could Flame Princess let the Greenwood spirit escape, she pulled out a magic staff for the first time since her appearance as her men pulled out their swords. The staff was completely crappy looking as if it would break any moment but having a staff this early in the game already showed her talent. She disdained people like Lin Fang who were scared of dying even in the game.

A fireball appeared above her as it shot towards the Greenwood spirit. The Spirit easily dodged the attack but continues running after Lin Fang. Flame Princess wondered why its aggro didn't shift to her as she and her men started chasing them.

Meanwhile Lin Fang who couldn't even get 5 seconds of rest had to start running again was already out of fuel. His legs felt weak but he didn't stop, his body felt like paper but he didn't stop, his bones felt like they would break but he didn't stop. Then, he accidentally hit the tree and fell to the ground.(Author: Now you stop)

He forced himself to get up and started running again. Just then he heard the thumping noise of the Greenwood Spirits jumps again. He looked around anxiously and realised that he was nearby that small cave he had seen before. He bit his lips and ran towards that location, this was his only chance. He was gambling, gambling that Flame Princess wanted to kill the spirit so badly that she would immediately give chase, gambling that she would appear before the Spirit dug him out of his pit, and gambling that she would be able to kill this abomination.

As the cave appeared in his view, he appeared in the Greenwood Spirits view. It realised what Lin Fang planned to do, thinking of those people it left behind he sped up to catch him before he jumped inside. Lin Fang also started running like mad towards the small cave. The distance between the 3 was getting smaller and smaller.

The cave was just within his arms reach when the Greenwood spirit arrived, since the cave was surrounded by rocks, it had no roots to control so he could only attack physically as it tried to jump and press Lin Fang under him. Fortunately, Lin Fang jumped and slide inside just before the body of the Greenwood spirit hit the ground. Safe he thought in his heart but this thought was immediately crushed to pieces by the giant body trying to enter the cave.

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