Chapter 1 This Script is Adapted

November 13th, midnight. The fifth round of the Pinnacle Showdown S2 playoffs, also the third-to-last match of the entire tournament—officially begins.

Soon, the final eight will be decided...

[Feng Bujue, Level 50]

[Wang Tanzhi, Level 50]

[Si Yu Ruo Li, Level 50]

[Bei Ling Xiao Gu, Level 50]

[Shi Shang Hua Jian, Level 50]

[Please select the game mode your team will join.]

[You have selected Pinnacle Showdown S2 - Battle of the Four Realms. Please confirm.]

[Confirmed. Please select an observer for this battle.]

[Confirmed. Your team has entered the queue, waiting for your opponents to be ready.]

[Match complete. Coordinating neural connections. Generating script...]

[Loading begins, please wait.]

"The fires of war have barely settled, blood still fresh,
The fierce battle resumes, allowing no respite.
Stars gather in the Four Realms,
Heroic spirit soars beyond the nine heavens."

[Loading complete. Welcome to Pinnacle Showdown S2 - Battle of the Four Realms.]

[This mode provides a script introduction, and there is a chance of triggering side hidden quests and special worldviews.]

[Script victory reward: Advance to the semi-finals.]

[The script introduction will now play. The match will begin immediately after the playback.]

The system prompts upon entering the script were not much different from the previous rounds, except for the "Script Victory Reward" content, which was basically the same.

After the voice prompt, it was the opening CG.

Rumble...

With a sudden clap of thunder, the first shot of the CG appeared before the players.

In the center of the screen was a cross-shaped stone tombstone; next to the tombstone stood a tall, lifelike stone statue of the Grim Reaper... Although the face of the statue was hidden in the shadows, every player and audience member watching the CG could feel that he seemed to be staring at them.

After freezing for a few seconds, the camera began to move slowly to the side, and a depressing, eerie, and bizarre background music also sounded appropriately.

In the next ten or so seconds, the players followed the "camera's perspective" all the way through a graveyard overgrown with grass and weeds and dilapidated fences. Then, the focus of the picture gradually zoomed in on a castle on a distant cliff.

[One hundred years ago, on a certain night, the legendary demon hunter Van Helsing led a group of warriors into the castle of the demon king Dracula.]

During the narration, the camera played a set of fast, smooth action scene clips.

There, a middle-aged handsome man in a white shirt and black vest, with a goatee, and three or five villagers with torches and hunting rifles... stormed into the castle together.

They used mining explosives to blow open the castle gate, and used knives and guns to kill all the monsters in their way, quickly arriving at an underground auditorium with the help of the editor.

[At this time, Dracula had already obtained the legendary "Amulet of the Holy," and wanted to destroy it on the "Night of Resurrection."]

[Once the Amulet of the Holy is destroyed, the balance between good and evil in the world will be broken, and the human world will fall into the hands of dark forces.]

At this point, Van Helsing had arrived in the middle of the auditorium, standing in front of a smooth, bridge-shaped rock. Embedded in the section of the rock was a palm-sized, crystal-like circular amulet.

Van Helsing stared at the amulet for a few seconds, then turned his head and shouted, "Yes, that's it, quickly bring the girl here."

As soon as he finished speaking, one of his companions brought a girl in from outside the auditorium.

The girl looked sixteen or seventeen years old, with blond hair and blue eyes, and her clothes were very simple. As she walked into the auditorium, her slightly immature face showed obvious unease and timidity, but it could still be seen that there was a hint of determination and courage in her eyes.

"I hope we're not too late." Van Helsing looked at the girl's appearance, wiped the blood that he didn't know when had stained his face, and muttered worriedly.

[In order to prevent all of this, Van Helsing came to the amulet and took the lead in launching a ritual.]

The narration interjected, and the camera turned to the girl, who was holding a scroll and facing the amulet, hesitatingly chanting incantations.

And the amulet also reacted to the incantation, with rays of light constantly shooting out from the crystal body.

"Hurry! Faster!" Although it seemed a little harsh to do so, Van Helsing kept urging the already trembling girl to speed up.

Bang—

At this moment, accompanied by a loud noise, the glass and doors of the auditorium shattered on their own, and the ground under everyone's feet shook as if it had come to life.

"Ah—"

"Help!"

Suddenly, several villagers standing in the back screamed.

When everyone turned to look, they found that they had been dragged alive into the ground by the ghouls that had poured out of the cracks in the ground...

"Chant!" Seeing that the girl was frightened by the scene in front of her, Van Helsing shouted, "Otherwise we'll all die!"

The girl was awakened by his shout and continued to chant nervously.

[On the Night of Resurrection, a virgin reading a spell in front of the amulet can open the gate to limbo (i.e. the border of hell), devouring everything around it.]

As soon as limbo was mentioned, the gate to limbo opened. Before the narration was finished, the light on the amulet suddenly disappeared, and then... a black hole the size of a human eye appeared on the amulet, and expanded to more than five meters in diameter in a few seconds.

"Oh! God!"

"Run!"

Van Helsing's teammates showed panic and began to flee... because the suction of the black hole sucked in the girl who was reciting the incantation first in five seconds.

However, all of this was obviously in vain...

Soon, the Gate to Limbo expanded to an unimaginable size, and the space of the entire auditorium, and even the entire castle, was distorted because of it.

Nothing... could escape its devouring.

"Van Helsing..." As Van Helsing made his last struggle outside the black hole, a voice entered his ears, "Is this your way? To stop me... are you willing to fall into limbo yourself?"

"I just did what I had to do..." Van Helsing responded loudly to the voice, "...and what I could do."

"Don't pretend to be a saint there!" the voice shouted, "You can't save everyone! You can't even save the few people who came with you!" There was obvious anger in his words, "My life is eternal! One day, I will return to this world, and you... will suffer in limbo forever!"

"Heh..." Van Helsing smiled miserably, "I think... when that day comes, someone will stand up to stop you."

After saying this, he was also swallowed by the black hole and disappeared without a trace...

Chi—

The next second, the screen went black, and the opening CG came to an abrupt end.

[Ninety-nine years later... today...] After the narration left this last sentence, the script officially began.

[Main Quest Triggered]

[Kill the four members of "Blade."]

As soon as the players entered the script, the quest prompt came directly.

But their attention was not on this, and all the viewers watching the live broadcast... did not pay attention to this either.

"Hey, hey... what's going on?" When Feng Bujue regained his ability to move, he found himself lying on a small bed.

The size of this bed was obviously not prepared for adults, and the cartoon character sheets were not either... but at this moment Feng Bujue lying on this bed seemed to have no sense of incongruity, because... he had become a child.

[In this script, your age has been set to ten years old.]

[Your appearance, physical fitness, skills, items, spiritual weapons, title abilities, etc. will all undergo corresponding changes.]

Five seconds later, such a prompt sounded in the ears of every player.

"They're really going all out..." Feng Bujue lifted the quilt and stood on the ground, "Is it really okay to play with settings in the competition..."

In fact, there was nothing wrong with it. Anyway, both sides of the battle were turned into children, so it was "theoretically" fair.

"Huff... anyway, I'll take a look first." After Feng Bujue stood still, he first observed the room he was in.

This was a very typical room for a child from an American middle-class family. It's just that... the era in which it was located was definitely not in the twenty-first century. Because there was no smartphone or tablet computer, no desktop computer or handheld game console. Feng Bujue took a cursory look around, and apart from the light bulb... the only electronic devices that could be found in the room were an electric alarm clock and an old-fashioned radio.

As for other things... they were basically common things in boys' rooms. Dirty clothes thrown around, hats that were too ugly to wear, basketballs that looked very cheap, sneakers that didn't need laces to put on or take off, toys for teenagers popular in the 1980s and 1990s, a bunch of baseball star cards (Brother Jue flipped through them and found that he had never heard of the appearance and names of these stars, so he deduced that this was a planet similar to Earth in the main universe), carpets stained with dried sauce and snack crumbs (it could be known with the naked eye that the source of these food residues was at least six kinds), embarrassing monster figures and posters, and so on.

Feng Bujue estimated that if he looked carefully, he might be able to find some not-so-heavy (for him) adult magazines under the bed, but he didn't do that...

"After the body shrinks, the line of sight becomes lower..." After Feng Bujue finished scanning, he walked to the closet, "It's really a little uncomfortable."

With that said, he opened the closet door.

Unsurprisingly, the inside of this floor-standing closet door was inlaid with a full-length mirror.

"Hmm..." Brother Jue looked at himself in the mirror and thought, "As expected of the program developed by Woody... not only did it scale down the character's clothes and hairstyle proportionally, but it also perfectly restored my appearance, body shape, and height when I was ten years old..."

Although his reaction when looking in the mirror was not very strong, at this moment, the audience watching the game was going crazy with joy...

"Hahahaha... this... this this this..." There were those who were incoherent.

"That dead fish eye hasn't changed at all! Hahaha..." There were those who complained.

"Hahaha... I can't do it anymore! I'm going to find the recording and use his face as an emoticon!" There were those who were full of malice.

"I really want to get a mini clown suit like this for my child, it's so cute." There were those who focused on the wrong point.

In short, compared with Brother Jue's lukewarm attitude, the audience's reaction was extremely strong.

In addition... you should all have realized that, in addition to Feng Bujue, the other seven players in the script have also become children, and their changes are also full of highlights...

Therefore, in the next five to thirty minutes, news about this game spread like a virus on the live broadcast platform, attracting a large number of viewers who came here especially...

As soon as they heard that they could see the children's versions of the players, most of the audience... and even some studio intelligence reconnaissance teams... couldn't help but come and watch.

[Side Quest Triggered]

Just as Feng Bujue finished searching the room and was about to open the door to go out, the system prompt sounded again.

He opened the game menu and glanced at the contents of the quest bar, what he saw was—[Find a way to meet up with your teammates].

"Oh? Does this count as a quest?" Feng Bujue muttered noncommittally, "In this kind of script with separate teleport points, meeting up with teammates is a basic routine, right..."

"Eh?" Thinking of this, his eyes changed slightly as if he had thought of something, "Could it be... that this quest is implying... that some kind of follow-up plot can be triggered after meeting up?"

While thinking, Feng Bujue walked out of the room. That room was located at the end of the second floor. After Brother Jue passed through the corridor that was several meters long, he followed the stairs to the living room on the first floor.

"Hey~ my little pumpkin, look at you... why did you change your clothes so early in the morning?" A young mother in her thirties, with golden wavy curls, greeted him with a warm smile.

"Ah... that's because I can't wait..." Feng Bujue used a cute voice unique to children, coupled with his weak tone and "are you kidding me" expression... to say this line.

When he was searching the room upstairs, Feng Bujue saw that the calendar on the wall marked today as Halloween; the system used a very good way to make it reasonable for him to be wearing fancy dress.

"Heh... my little baby, you're so cute." The "mother" walked over and pinched Brother Jue's little face with both hands, and kissed him on the forehead, "Okay, mommy has to go out, breakfast is on the table, remember to eat it all before going out."

"Okay." Feng Bujue replied with a displeased expression. After the lady went upstairs, he shook his head helplessly and walked towards the kitchen.

Five minutes later, Brother Jue, wearing a safety helmet and knee pads, and riding a small bicycle with training wheels, appeared on the side of the road in the community. He also had a piece of slightly burnt toast in his mouth.

"Should I occupy the TV station or the radio station..." He was mainly thinking about such a problem while riding his bicycle.

However, a figure suddenly appearing in the middle of the road interrupted his thoughts.

"Hmph... Feng Bujue!" There, a boy about 1.3 meters tall... was leading a big dog and blocked Brother Jue's way, and said, "What a coincidence!"