The Sacred Amulet

You are the little serpent, a young huntsman. You live a simple life and there does not seem to be anything that could disturb it. Until one day, when out hunting, you come by chance upon the murder of a nobleman who gives you mysterious information before he dies that you should never have heard. Soldiers accuse you of the murder, a crime which you did not commit. They have taken your parents hostage to force you to give yourself up. A strange illness is eating away at the country. The doctors are powerless. A few meager clues make you think that this perhaps has something to do with your own misfortunes.