This script is adapted from the 1987 film *The Monster Squad*, with some elements from the *Castlevania* series. Any similarities are not coincidental.

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Zero hour, November 13th. The fifth round of the S2 Summit Tournament's quarter-finals, also the third-to-last match of the entire competition… 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 for your team to join.]

[You have selected S2 Summit Tournament – Bloody Battle of the Four Realms. Please confirm.]

[Confirmed. Please select the spectators for this battle.]

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

[Match found. Coordinating neural connections. Generating scenario…]

[Loading… Please wait.]

"The smoke of war has barely settled, the bloody battle starts anew without delay. The stars gather in the Four Realms, heroic spirit soars beyond the heavens."

[Loading complete. Welcome to S2 Summit Tournament – Bloody Battle of the Four Realms.]

[This mode provides a scenario introduction and has a chance of featuring side quests, hidden missions, and a special world setting.]

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

[The scenario introduction will now play. The match will begin immediately after.]

The system prompts upon entering the scenario were not significantly different from the previous rounds, except for the "Scenario victory reward," which was essentially the same.

After the voice prompt, the opening CG began.

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. Beside the tombstone stood a tall, lifelike statue of the Grim Reaper… Although the statue's face was hidden in the shadows, every contestant and viewer watching the CG could feel that it seemed to be staring at them.

After a few seconds of stillness, the camera began to slowly move to the side, and a depressing, eerie, and bizarre background music played appropriately.

For the next ten seconds or so, the players followed the "camera's perspective" as it passed through a graveyard overgrown with trees and grass, with dilapidated fences. Then, the focus of the picture went from far to near, aiming at 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.]

As the narrator spoke these words, the camera showed a series of fast, smooth action scene clips.

A handsome middle-aged man in a white shirt and black vest, with a full beard, along with three or five villagers holding torches and shotguns… charged into the castle together.

They blew open the castle gate with mining explosives, hacked and slashed all the monsters in their way, and quickly arrived at an underground chapel with the help of the editor.

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

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

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

Van Helsing stared at the amulet for a few seconds, then turned back 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 chapel.

The girl looked about sixteen or seventeen years old, with blonde hair and blue eyes, and simple clothing. As she walked into the chapel, her slightly immature face showed obvious unease and timidity, but it was still possible to see a hint of determination and courage in her eyes.

"Hopefully, we're not too late." Van Helsing looked at the girl's appearance, wiped the blood that had somehow gotten on his face, and muttered worriedly.

[To prevent all of this, Van Helsing came to the amulet and launched a ritual first.]

The narrator interjected, and the camera turned to show the girl already holding a scroll in her hand, facing the amulet, hesitatingly chanting incantations.

The amulet also reacted to the incantation, constantly emitting light from the crystal body.

"Faster! Faster!" Although it seemed a little harsh, Van Helsing kept urging the already trembling girl beside him, telling her to speed up.

Bang—

Just then, with a loud noise, the glass and doors of the chapel shattered on their own, and the ground beneath everyone's feet seemed to come alive and heave.

"Ah—"

"Help!"

Suddenly, a few villagers standing in the back screamed.

When everyone looked back, they found that they had been dragged down alive by the dried corpses that had emerged from the cracks in the ground…

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

The girl was startled by his shout and came back to her senses, nervously continuing to chant.

[On the Night of Resurrection, a virgin reading a spell in front of the amulet can open the gates of Limbo (i.e., the edge of hell), devouring everything around it.]

As soon as it was said, the Limbo gates opened. Before the narration was finished, the light on the amulet had suddenly disappeared. Then… a black hole the size of a human eye appeared on the amulet and expanded to a diameter of more than five meters in a few seconds.

"Oh! God!"

"Run!"

Van Helsing's teammates showed panic and began to run… because the suction of the black hole sucked in the girl reciting the spell first within five seconds.

However, this was obviously in vain…

Soon, the Limbo gate expanded to an unimaginable size, and the space of the entire chapel, and even the entire castle, was distorted by it.

Nothing… could escape its devouring.

"Van Helsing…" As Van Helsing struggled outside the black hole, a voice entered his ears, "Is this your solution? To stop me… are you willing to fall into Limbo yourself?"

"I just did what I had to do…" Van Helsing responded loudly to that 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!" Obvious anger was revealed 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 gave a miserable smile, "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…] The narrator left this last sentence, and the scenario officially began.

[Main Quest Triggered]

[Kill the four members of "Blade."]

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

But their attention was not on this, and neither were all the viewers watching the live broadcast…

"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 neither was the cartoon-character-printed bed sheet… But at this moment, Feng Bujue lying on this bed seemed to be in perfect harmony, because… he had become a child.

[In this scenario, 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 rang in the ears of every player.

"Quite the fun game…" Feng Bujue lifted the quilt and stood on the ground, "Is it really okay to play with settings in a competition…"

Actually, there was nothing wrong with it. Anyway, both sides of the battle had been turned into children, so it was "theoretically" fair.

"Hoo… Anyway, let me take a look first." After Feng Bujue stood still, he first observed the room he was in.

This was a very typical American middle-class family's child's room. It's just that… the era it was in was definitely not the twenty-first century. Because there were neither smartphones nor tablet computers, nor desktop computers or handheld game consoles in this room. Feng Bujue took a hasty look around, and other than the light bulb… the only electronic devices that could be found in this room were an electric alarm clock and an old-fashioned radio.

As for other things… basically, they were all common things in a boy's room. Dirty clothes thrown everywhere, hats that were too ugly to wear, a basketball that looked very cheap, sneakers that didn't need shoelaces to put on and take off, toys for teenagers that were popular in the 1980s and 1990s, a pile of baseball star cards (Brother Jue flipped through them and found that he had never heard of the appearances and names of these stars, so he deduced that this was a planet similar to Earth in the main universe), a carpet covered in dried sauce and snack crumbs (it could be seen with the naked eye that the sources of these food residues were at least six or more), embarrassing monster figurines, posters, and so on.

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

"The field of vision becomes lower after the body shrinks…" After Feng Bujue finished scanning, he walked to the closet, "It's really a bit unaccustomed."

As he said that, he opened the closet door.

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

"Hmm…" Brother Jue looked at himself in the mirror and thought, "As expected of a program developed by Woody… It not only shrunk the character's clothing and hairstyle proportionally but 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 viewers watching the game were almost going crazy with joy…

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

"Those dead fish eyes haven't changed at all! Hahaha…" There were those who were complaining.

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

"I really want to get a set of miniature clown costumes like this for my child, it's so cute." There were those who focused on the wrong things.

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

In addition… everyone should have realized that, in addition to Feng Bujue, the other seven players in the scenario had also become children, and their changes were just as full of highlights…

As a result, in the next five to thirty minutes, news about this competition spread like a virus on the live broadcast platform, attracting a large number of viewers who came for the name…

Upon hearing that they could see the children's versions of the contestants, the vast majority of the audience… and even some studio intelligence reconnaissance teams… couldn't help but come over to watch.

[Side Quest Triggered]

Just as Feng Bujue completed the search of the room and was about to open the door to go out, the system prompt rang again.

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

"Oh? Does this even count as a quest?" Feng Bujue muttered noncommittally, "In this kind of scenario where the teleportation points are separated, meeting up with teammates is a basic routine, right…"

"Eh?" Thinking of this, his expression changed slightly as if he had thought of something, "Could it be… that this quest is implying… that meeting up will trigger some kind of follow-up plot?"

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 a corridor 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 get dressed so early in the morning?" A young mother in her thirties with golden wavy hair greeted him with a warm smile.

"Ah… that's because I couldn't wait anymore…" Feng Bujue used a child's unique cute voice, combined with his weak tone and the "are you kidding me" expression… to say this line.

When searching the room upstairs, Feng Bujue saw that the calendar on the wall marked today as Halloween. The system used a good way to make his wearing a strange costume seem logical.

"Heh… my little darling, you're so cute." The "mother" came over and pinched Brother Jue's little cheeks with both hands, and kissed him on the forehead, "Okay, Mom has to go out, breakfast is on the table, remember to finish eating it before going out."

"Okay." Feng Bujue responded with a disgruntled look. After the woman went upstairs, he shook his head helplessly and walked to the kitchen.

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

"Should I occupy the TV station or the radio station…" While riding his bicycle, he was mainly thinking about such a question.

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

"Hmph… Feng Bujue!" A boy about 1.3 meters tall… was holding a large dog and blocked Brother Jue's path, saying, "What a coincidence!"