Children were energetic and quick-witted. Before long, they had tricked most of the people over.
The remaining villagers who sensed something was wrong had not even run a few meters out of Black Mountain Village before bolts of black lightning fell from the sky and struck them dead one by one.
Chu Ke looked at the crowd before him with satisfaction as the four golden characters, Mastery of Five Thunders, slowly faded away.
"Very good." Chu Ke lightly sniffed the bloody scent in the air and frowned. "Not quite enough."
The next instant, several more villagers were chopped into mince. Blood burst from them like popped water balloons, splattering everyone nearby.
"Ah—!"
"H-He killed someone again!"
"Didn't you say that if Gou Dan brought everyone back, you wouldn't kill anyone?"
"What?! That little bastard tricked us?!"
Chu Ke raised his eyes and glanced at them. They shattered as well. "What does whether I kill or not have to do with you?"
"The rest of you shouldn't try anything either. Maybe you'll get to live?"
At those words, the other villagers who had been trying to flee desperately gradually calmed down as well.
Looking at the blood all over the ground, Chu Ke muttered, "Still not coming out?"
As soon as he finished speaking, a cyan figure leaped from the dry well in the distance and crouched atop a roof.
"Oh dear, was that necessary?" The Three-Eyed Law Corpse sounded rather helpless. "We worked so hard to raise some blood food, and you ruined it all at once."
"Superior Corpse Lord!"
"Superior Corpse Lord, save us!" The mince was speaking.
"Shouldn't you explain this farce?" Chu Ke slashed out several times, sounding equally helpless.
*What's with this NPC? Why was it so hard just to trigger a cutscene? Did I have