The Wedding Massacre(1)

The cool air tickled MuYang. He was trying his best to meditate and stabilise his core.

As his body was small, he had to stabilise it every five hours to not burst apart this young body.

An eerie silence awoke him. He found himself on the floor, face first. He looked at the surroundings, the kids all were asleep. Except Xiaodan.

Xiaodan was a cranky young boy. He was a very picky eater too. He only ever food like carrot, potato soup and chicken. He considered every other meal disgusting. Even though he had never ever tasted it.

He even despised sweet candy. So, turns out he was lucky enough to not be drugged.

Muyang deduced that the food might have been kept in the foods. Since today was a wedding, even the soldiers had a meal everyoften. Though awake, muyang couldn't exactly move.

It was plotarmor.

A bright reddish golden screen howered over,

'TUTORIAL FINAL ACT

THE WEDDING MASSACRE

QUEST: ESCAPE FROM THE RITUAL

REWARD: SURVIVAL

PUNISHMENT: DEATH

ACCEPT? '

"As though I have a choice…. accept.", muyang accepted and soon he was able to move.

The moment he got up, Xiaodan came over running and asked.

"What happened? Why did all fall down? I am scared! Let's go home!", he started mumbling, very afraid.

Muyang noticed that he didn't cry and was thankful. He steadied himself and took Xiaodan to go inside the wedding hall.

"Just follow me, it's going to be alright.", muyang said.

Technically, they will. Xiaodan had plot armor, Muyang had his strength. They both would definitely survive, but Muyang couldn't risk getting his core shattered at this point.

He was going to be vulnerable in front of a dangerous enemy but mere mortals? Not an issue.

Soon enough the perpetrators enetered the hall. Both of them hid behind the long chairs and fainted uncles and aunts.

They covered themselves with the long overcoats and looked on.

A very weak man, wearing long robes entered. He examined everyone carefully and handpicked a few people, the groom, the groom's father and a young lady.

A few bodyguards came inside and carried them outside.

The man then took out a knife.

It was specially designed with a curvy pattern, clearly not for combat.

He took it and stabbed the heart of the bridesmaid, a friend of Xiaodan's sister. The blood was then carefully collected in a bowl. In the centre of the stage, bodyguards ripped apart the decorations and placed a bowl with similar design and pattern as the knife.

It was a ritual huh. Muyang sighed, this was a gruesome sight, especially to the one emotionally involved. He glanced at Xiaodan, who was now staring in horror not even trying to protect himself.

The weak man, who was probably the ritual priest started stabbing the hearts of everyone present in the hall.

Muyang felt a sudden sense of fear, his parents were in the second courtyard, probably the next spot where this priest would go.

He felt a rush of euphoria as he could feel these mortal emotions again. He almost let out a chuckle and fell back to his dark self, but he preserved.

It was not the time to unravel his dark power, not yet.

The main nobles were all inside the secondary courtyard, admiring the garden of the groom's mother. They had to go check on them.

Muyang turned to warn and explain his idea to Xiaodan but he was unable to.

A warning sign shone in front of him and a sound crushing shriek was heard from one the victims. She had been pretending to be asleep.

The bodyguards came and horribly snapped her neck. They then threw her out on the orders of the priest.

Muyang flinched on the animalistic treatment of mortals. He was a villain but not a savage.

He would ensure his victims went by painlessly unless the motive he seeked was revenge.

Xiaodan froze, he couldn't even cry or wail. He even stopped breathing as he noticed the priest slowly approach the couple we were hiding behind.

"Xiaodan, now.", muyang said and together they slowly backed off into the room behind.

Xiaodan still wasn't out of it. How could he? He was just a kid, and he saw how many? 30 people die in front of him?

"Xiaodan, be cautious. They are not to be messed around with.", muyang gave his usual advice and went on exploring, trying to get a route to go to the secondary courtyard.

Together they jumped over windows, crawled through a dog hole and then found, the secondary courtyard.

The bride was asleep on the table, beside the mother of Xiaodan, Muyang's parents were asleep by the door, the princess's brother in law was face first in a garden with thorns over his face which made Muyang want to laugh.

Xiaodan ran over to his mother and tried waking them up. But it was of no use. They were obviously drugged. It soon began to rain, thunders filled the sky, which helped Xiaodan wail his heart out when his mother didn't respond.

Muyang went over and consoled the boy.

"This is not the time, we must find a way to end this hell.", Muyang said, he considered that statement to be a good enough push for the hero to do his work.

But not this hero, this hero chose to be dumb. Not his fault, he was a kid, but still dumb.

"Let's go and tell them to stop.", Xiaodan said his eyes filled with passion.

"Look, that's admirable but no, we can't, we are just two young boys and they are 30 ish men. They carried your brother in law as though he was a roll of silk.", Muyang said.

"Then what can we do? ", Xiaodan asked as he stopped crying.

"Let's just try to save as many as we can." Muyang said looked at the new objective for him.

'OBJECTIVE: FIND THE ROYAL GUARD

HINT: TWO YOUNG BIRDS INTERTWINED IN LOVE

FIND SOLACE IN A CROWDED PLACE

TIMELIMIT: 20 minutes

PROGRESS VALUE: 20%'

"Sweet!", Muyang muttered. A 20% completion? That's the best thing possible. Now he must just make this young guy find this royal guard.

Two birds in love? Intertwined? No way… is that…. Ugh, this is ridiculous. Crowded place? Where could they?

The manor was quite small as it wasn't really made for lodging but rather sightseeing. There shouldn't be much of a crowded place other than the hall, the seoncdary courtyard or the forest trail.

The perpetrators had come through the forest trail so that was a no.

"Let's search around here for anyone who is awake.", Muyang said and together they started their great search.

They tried waking up everyone but it was of no use. Since they had come here. The door connecting the courtyards rattled.

Some noise was heard and then gone.

"Xiaodan, I think we need to leave.", Muyang said. The fear slowly crept upto him.

"But, ma… sis, what about them?", Xiaodan asked.

"Let's search for someone and come back here. We should be getting help.", Muyang said trying to get to the location of the guard. There were only 10 minutes left.

"Xiaodan, do you know of any crowded places in this manor?" , Muyang gave up thinking and asked as they ran out slowly through the dog hole.

"Crowded? The hall, this courtyard, the storage area, why?", he asked.

"I was thinking, people could probably be there and not affected.", Muyang said.

"Ohhh, shall we go to the storage then?" Xiaodan said.

Both of them went to the storage and searched all over, there was no one.

'TIME LIMIT: 5 MINUTES'

"Come on, think! Where else could there be a crowd?", he muttered.

"Hmm, where else?", Xiaodan accompanied.

'TIMELIMIT: 3 MINUTES'

"Don't hit me, but what about the stables?", Xiaodan suggested.

"Stables? But they would only be filled with horses and not people.", Muyang Said and then it hit him.

Wow, so the couple could be in stable… Great choice to cover up the noise.

"Let's go then!", he took Xiaodan's hand and they bolted to the stable.

'TIME LIMIT: 1 MINUTE'

They soon arrived at the stable, the doors were closed but they easily crouch down and go inside.

Inside there were many horses, all the rows were filled and was heavily stinky.

The horses started neighing about and a slight gasp was heard.

'TIME LIMIT: 15 SECONDS'

Muyang covered his eyes, he was in a kid's body so no images could cause his desires to escape but he didn't want to destabilise his core.

He pushed Xiaodan forward and decided to have a staring game with the horses.

'TIME LIMIT: 5 SECONDS'

"Excuse me, is there anyone here?", Xiaodan walked to see a young girl catering to the water behind and a young man, wearing the uniform of a guard tying his hair up.

"Y-yes, young master.", he said stuttering.

"Oh thank god! There is an issue, Everyone in the manor has fainted!", Xiaodan informed and the guard turned serious.

"What, Mylord? Fainted?", He got up but was unfazed as though he already expected it.