My Scales Can Make Equivalent Exchange - Chapter 24 - The Source

... n of corpses. Thirty royal guards, their corpses rigid with mottle marks, had been dead for two days or so.

Further down the corridor, maids and manservants moved around holding lanterns, seemingly oblivious to the scene. Confirming Wang Zijia’s suspicions once again, this mysterious domain behaved much like a game scenario.

The gatekeepers acted as the trigger mechanism, while the guards served as passive response mechanisms, triggering only when provoked, and reacted collective ...