The huntress

William tried to free himself but it was meaningless, he couldn't do anything. After a while his eyes finally started to get used to the darkness, and he saw that he was completely tied down. And even worse the ropes seemed to be made out of steel or something even stronger. The kidnapper really made sure that William would have no way to escape.

After a while a woman came inside, but he couldn't see her face in the darkness. He could only assume that she had dark hair and a nice figure, but that was it. After staring at her for a minute he finally found the bravery to talk, "who are you? Why did you kidnap me?"

"Don't get impatient boy, I'm gonna answer your questions. I'm the hunter that was assigned to you. The devil basically gave me the job to kill you, but of course I can't kill you for real in this world. That's why I have to start here, as a warning that you are being hunted. The devil wants to give you a chance survive, this is basically a test for you," she looked at him while saying that.

"Wait what, why would the devil order you to hunt me? A test you say? Isn't this world hard enough? I already died thousands of times in here, this is insane! And you talked about rules, what are they?" he asked her while being completely confused.

She looks at him and answered. "The rules are simple, I can hunt you in this world and in the real world. I can only try to kill you once a month. I can't go overboard with my attempts, like sending an army towards you or whatever. I basically have to give you a chance to survive if it's in the real world. But in this world where you are basically immortal, I'm free to do whatever I want."

William immediately stopped speaking. This was simply too scary. He already had enough problems, but now a master assassin would try to take his life once a month. He wasn't sure if he could escape even once, not to mention every month. But atleast she had to give him a chance. This shouldn't be too bad if it's a test. No matter how crazy the devil was, he wouldn't just be so bored as to randomly kill him, right?

But while he thought that, a knife was already stabbed into his chest. He died with those thoughts while slowly bleeding out. Not even sure why he was just stabbed, he had still many questions. But it seemed the woman had no intention of answering them.

After a short while of only blackness, he woke up in front of the scorpion and was stabbed to death. "Not this scorpion again, this is why I was so careful, just to avoid dying because the spawnpoint is at the scorpion," thought William. It took him multiple tries but after a while he finally escaped.

"I finally escaped after multiple hours, shouldn't I be able to escape faster with my scorpion avoiding step? Or is this stupid scorpion getting stronger? Whatever it is, I'm finally out of there," thought William.

He searched for a place to rest and found one after a while, he stayed there while thinking about today's encounter. "The girl was way stronger than me, she could have killed me without those tricks, but it seems she really does follow rules. Maybe she is only allowed to use tricks to kill me, and my job is to see through those tricks. That's atleast doable then, but I still have the odds against me."

After thinking for a while, he simply got too tired and fell asleep. The next morning he woke up extremely hungry, and then he remembered. He respawned, he lost all his food and weapons, he had to do for it all from the beginning again. Atleast he still had his powers.