Here's the second part. Enjoy! =)

Chapter 24 – Sword and Mace

I never imagined that I would end up being some kind of comfort food for a humongous invisible snake. And I thought humans were supposed to be at the top of the food chain!

As I felt myself being lifted up even higher and higher, I closed my eyes tight. I wasn't afraid of heights but I had a fear of getting air sick. I even muttered a few curses for my foolishness and mumbled some words of prayer for Buddha of Second Life, wishing that once I had died, I would be back in First Life.

My assignment had waited too long that it had already gone bad...

Fifteen seconds had passed, and it did feel like I had already waited for fifteen years.

"I know I'm not good-looking, but that doesn't mean I'm not appetizing. What'd you waiting for? Come-"

My words failed me when my eyes opened up to look at what had become of the Queen. Her bloated goldfish eyes were looking in my direction, clearly showing that she was going to eat her food raw. She had a large gaping mouth that was as white as her sparkling teeth. Not only her eyes, her mouth, her face... her whole slender body from head to toe was already transformed into a beautiful and majestic ice sculpture.

The only thing that wasn't frozen was me. The weirdest thing was I was still being hung upside down in the air, like I was going to bungee-jump from the Taipei 101.

"Psycho! Use the sword in your hand and stab her in the heart!"

My head turned around vigorously for any sight of an elf, but he was nowhere to be seen. I bit my lips with extreme frustration at that stupid party message.

"Sword? There's no sword in my hand!"

I looked at my hand, and suddenly there was a sword. Its blade was made of hard crystal ice, and the steel handle was glowing warmer as I was gripping it tighter. It looked more like a falchion than a sword. I sighed pitifully at my previous weapon that had already fallen to its eternal oblivion...

"I've transferred it to you. Do you like it?" Wen Zi's voice sounded a little too eager than usual.

"I'll definitely like it, if only it's longer," I stabbed it into the air, levelling it down at the frozen Queen's left chest, "See that? You need to give me a better weapon, something like a polearm or a spear..."

"Mei you wen ti, (Not a problem)" A loud chant followed, "I call upon the blizzard spirit, Glacier Spear!"

Just like magic, the ice blade in my hand released a bright sparkle and lengthened continuously and... zaaaaa!

System notice: Hei_Psycho has killed White Snake Queen, Hei_Psycho has reached Level 12, Hei_Psycho's experience has increased to XXX/XXXX, Wen Zi has reached Level 63, Wen Zi's experience has increased to XXX/XXXX

My jaw dropped at the announcement. I thought that I would be very shocked to discover that I had killed that annoying boss (though I had only murdered her by accident).

But nothing was more shocking than the fact that Wen Zi's level was already so tremendously high...

Talking about 'high', I was still being dangled like a pinata in the middle of the chilly air. Since I had killed the big bad monster, wouldn't it 'explode' and disappear with a puff sound like any other mobs?

I wanted to give myself some more time to think for the answer, but my head seemed to be shutting by itself like it had run out of battery. There seemed to be another notice that flickered so quickly that I did not manage to read it.

The last thing I knew was I was falling down to...

O O O

Something soft?

I opened my eyes and stared at the ceiling. It had the same snow-white creamy colour as the cemented ceiling in my room. It was as flat and plain as a ceiling could be.

Nothing was out of the ordinary. Except for one thing.

My original ceiling didn't have a fan. This room had one, and the fan had some strange floral and animal designs that could only belong to a home from the Han Dynasty.

Fearing for the worst, I quickly pushed the soft blanket from my body.

"Phew... Thank the heavens I still have my clothes on."

I clutched onto my white robe that I was wearing. But one thing I didn't understand was why it looked exactly like the one worn by...

"Zao an! (Good morning!)"

I sprang out of the bed at that familiar voice. Hating this alarming sense of deja vu, I avoided looking at his oh-so-blue eyes at any costs, praying hard that the possibly-naked man wasn't going to cast any weird spells on me. Other girls may want to bed him, but not me. I just wanted to do my homework on my bed.

"That's all for today," I hurriedly ran for the door, "Goodbye!"

I could even barely turn the doorknob, when I felt a tight grasp on my arm that pulled me back towards the bed. It happened in a blink of an eye. As soon as my back crashed against the queen-sized bed, he jumped onto me and pinned my hands above my head.

He gave me a smirk that was even freakier than Abyss' wicked smile of death.

"What's the hurry? We haven't finished what we have started."

"We haven't even started anything!" I struggled.

"We haven't even started anything?" Wen Zi repeated as though confused, "Let's start from the beginning then."

"Hey, dude! You heard of that disease, AIDS? You don't want to get ourselves killed by AIDS, do you?"

I hoped that he knew what the disease was, because I had actually forgotten what AIDS stood for. I just knew that there was a higher possibility of contracting it if we have partners of the same gender. I wasn't sure whether it would apply in Second Life, but it would be great if AIDS could scare Wen Zi off and get rid of him once and for all.

"If we get ourselves killed by AIDS, we can always respawn later," Wen Zi grinned.

My heart dropped dead. He looked at me hard in the eye.

"You're very special, Psycho. That's why you never fail to amaze me."

"I'M NOT INTERESTED IN GUYS! DIDN'T I TELL YOU I ALREADY HAVE A GIRLFRIEND? GO SCREW YOURSELF!"

Bam!

I had given Wen Zi my hardest kick in the gut and pushed him away. His unconscious body fell with a loud thud onto the springy bed.

I scratched my chin. My ears must have been playing tricks on me.

There shouldn't have been any sound, since it was a supple cushioned bed and not the hard-rock floor...

"Did... hear... She said... a girlfriend..."

"Yeah... her desk... split into two... her kick... amazing, isn't she?"

"Quick! Quick! Look... Professor Min! Doesn't he look so cute when he's mad?"

At a stunned moment, I opened my eyes.

"So it was just a dream... Then when did I log out from the game? And did I just say loudly that I'm not interested in guys and I already have a..."

I struck at my own forehead inwardly with my self-imaginary mace. Each whisper among the noise was getting more audible than the previous one, and I was already fully awake at the mention of Prof being mad. Professor Min Guiwen had never been mad before, except when someone had crossed his line.

On that very fateful day, I had crossed that line.

I stood up without any hesitance, unable to even lift my face up to look at my most respected lecturer's face. It wasn't because I was afraid of him. I just felt too ashamed.

"Student Yang, you know very well what you've done. Stand till the end of the lesson."

I nodded in miserable silence. For some strange reasons, I felt an intense stare coming my way, and it wasn't the lecturer.

I made a sideway glance at the guy sitting at the corner in the classroom, his T-shirt was as black as the scaled armour that he was donned in the previous night. He had that same silly smirk that brightened under the rays of sun that crept sneakily from the cracked window.

If we were still in the Second Life, I knew he would have sent me a PM that said,

"Not so tough now, Psycho?"

Finally, Gui is back! *Celebrates* xD