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???
Do you want the MC to die??? He's a freaking infant who is greatly hindered by that as*hole god Rodcorte from growing more powerful and basically cursed him with a shitty life of bad luck and misfortune, so much so he'd rather kill himself than live.
Sure, he can slaughter the village. He wanted to too.
But what about after?? What about Priest Gordon and Heinz who are WAY stronger than him right now?? Who are a HUGE threat to his life???
Make a mysterious event happen => have some people investigate but have no clue about what happened = Life is safe for now, revenge carried out
Make mysterious event happen that kills people => have people-- STRONG people, people out of his power league right now-- hunt him down ruthlessly BECAUSE he killed a WHOLE town of people => revenge carried out, but large chance that he'll die and just end up face to face with Rodcorte again.
He had to hide from Gordon for two months living on earthworms and shit, what makes you even remotely think that he can just arrogantly kill as he pleases and get away with it scot free???
Not to mention, the more attention he garners, the higher up the people noticing him will be ranked. He did get noticed by gods further on, but that was when he had already built a base for himself and had made allies. He'd have to face against evil vampires following evil gods who can sic 6000 elite soldiers on them + vampire subordinates with super strength and speed and thousands of years of life and fighting experience while he's not even 1 year old yet, you know?? If you think you could survive that as a baby who just started out in the world less than a year ago, then I'd like to see you try. =_=
No point in carrying out revenge if they'll end up taking you down with them. That's not revenge, that's just s*upid.
[collapse]Spineless MCs are a thing, but it's better than idiot MCs who don't think of consequences and do something outrageous to draw dangerous amounts of attention to them when they're severely underpowered and can't contend on the global scale yet.