Chapter Seventy-Six: The Mountain Rain is Coming
"Van Helsing and Princess Anna are here, and we can ask them a little bit about it. Wang Zongchao, who had been silent, suddenly said that although he was present, he was not very enthusiastic about participating in the discussion. Because everyone is studying how to set up a game to kill Dracula, which is not his specialty, and the strategy is only an auxiliary for him at most.
Everyone was stunned when they heard his words, but the subsequent knock on the door woke them up.
Due to Wang Zongchao's presence, it is basically impossible for any man or beast to approach them within fifty meters without being discovered by him, which is equivalent to an additional humanoid radar, and Wang Zongchao can even distinguish the identity of the other party from the sound of footsteps.
Sure enough, after Van Helsing and Princess Anna came in, they first greeted everyone, thanked everyone for their help, and then began to ask everyone: Do you really want to avenge your dead companions and deal with vampires?
"Nine of our companions died at the hands of vampires!, and we are also not the masters who dare not come forward and take revenge at the hands of others!" Zheng Zha snorted coldly, with deep anger and hatred, and replied.
Although the eight newcomers who died had just met and couldn't talk about deep feelings, Athena had been their assistant instructor and had already accumulated deep feelings when they fought side by side in virtual training in the future, so most of his anger was out of sincerity.
After he said this, Van Helsing raised his arm, spread his clenched fist, and between the palms of his hands, a white ball of light was vibrating, and the white light flashed and disappeared.
"It's true!" Van Helsing nodded, and said apologetically, "I beg your pardon, the stakes are high, I have to use the detection of lies." β
After confirming the sincerity of the other party, Princess Anna offers to hire everyone to rescue her brother who has been captured by the werewolves, and if she can kill Dracula, she will be rewarded even more.
"Having seen the horrors of the crimson realm of vampires, I don't think our group can make a difference. Zhang Jie on the side began to pretend to be black-faced.
"Rest assured, the Crimson Realm can only be activated with the Blood Cloak, a Blood Hallows artifact, and once activated, it cannot be used again for thirty-six years, which means that we don't have to worry about the threat of the Crimson Realm for the next three years. Otherwise, with the power of the Crimson Realm that is enough to destroy a city and an army every time it is launched, Europe has long been the world of vampires. Princess Anna explained.
"Except for the cloak of blood. How many other terrible magic weapons do vampires have? We don't want to die in vain. Zhang Jie continued to ask worriedly. Just reacted with Zheng Zhedi, one cold and one hot.
"How many more? There can't be many! such a terrible thing. There are three more at the same level. It is also known as the Four Sacred Weapons of the Blood Clan: the Spear of Longinus, the Blood Cloak, the Ru Blood Scroll, and the Silver Holy Grail. Listened to Zheng Zha's words. Fan Hai smiled bitterly. Then he added:
"The spear of Longinus was taken from the vampires by the Holy See more than two hundred years ago. It is now under the tight guard of the Vatican. And the Silver Grail has always been in the hands of the Vampire Presbyterian Church. Dracula was expelled from the Council of Elders many years ago during the battle between the Secret Party and the Demon Party. It's impossible to have the Silver Grail anymore.
The only unaccounted for Ru Blood Scroll. In fact, it is not a tool that can be used to directly attack the ground. It's just that it records the deepest secret magic of the Blood Clan. β
Hear Van Helsing's last words. Zheng Zhe lowered his head and thought. In fact, it was to hide the glint glare in his eyes.
"We wanted to know more about Dracula. "After 'thinking'. Zheng Zha continued.
Van Helsing is also very honest, and now he has introduced the history of European blood clans and Dracula's past, as a veteran monster hunter, of course, he has to know the details of his opponent, and with the Holy See as a source of intelligence, his statement is much more credible than some folklore.
Dracula was originally the eldest son of Duke Willoly, and he also had two younger brothers, whose family rose to prominence in Hungary's resistance to the Turkish invasion, and his father, Duke Willoly, and his younger brother Lawton fought valiantly against the Turks, while the youngest brother, Cromwell, was too young to go to war.
During an expedition against Turkey, Dracula rushed too far forward and was scattered by the enemy, and when he was found by Veloli, he was already dying, and a dagger stabbed into his body from behind. The mighty duke ignored his son's dying death and continued to command the army, leaving Dracula in an old monastery for the time being. When the Duke and his other son returned to the monastery after their triumph, Dracula's body was gone.
"Dracula, born in 1422, died in 1462. "The history books should have ended their accounts of him.
But a month later, Dracula returned to Fort Willoli alive. As delicate and thin as he was before his death. He also took with him a companion, tall, with brown hair and dark eyes. The Duke did not know the stranger, but he was still very happy, and it was the most important thing for this man to bring his son back alive.
However, as soon as he returned home, Dracula was hit by a bolt from the blue, and his fiancΓ©e Elizabeth had just committed suicide because she heard of his death!
"My prince is dead. Without him, everything would have been reckless. May God reunite us in heaven. β
These were Elizabeth's last words.
However, due to Christian teachings, Elizabeth, who committed suicide, could not ascend to heaven, and she could not even have a decent funeral. That's God's iron rule!
"As I said, he's been playing tricks on us as much as he can, and we can't be his puppets......" The tall, brown-haired man who came with him smiled flirtatiously and groaned like a demon.
Dracula suddenly fell to his knees and screamed to the sky, cursing God in a frenzy, drawing his sword and slashing the statue of Jesus on the cross......
"Since God will not redeem her, I will give myself to the darkness! and avenge her with all the power of evil!" he stretched out his arms and said in a loud voice: "Let death be my life!"
The Duke of Veloli tried to stop his madness, but Dracula turned into countless bats in front of everyone's eyes, and flew into the night sky under the moonlight with Elizabeth's corpse in front of everyone's eyes, disappearing from everyone's sight.
When the group came back to their senses and tried to find out the situation from the tall, brown-haired man who had returned with him, they found that the stranger was nowhere to be found.
A few years later, in Transylvania, a remote and wild place, murders occurred again and again, only to be regarded by the local population as a new disease or plague, known as the Red Death.
And it was there that Duke Veloli, who traveled all over Europe trying to find his son, discovered Dracula, who had become a vampire, and also discovered the sins of his son.
The ashamed Duke Veroli personally went to the Vatican to apologize to the Holy See, and made a vow that the entire family would never go to heaven unless Dracula was destroyed.
Duke Veloli, who has been fighting for many years, has extremely strong martial arts in his own right, and his other son, Lawton, grew up in the Vatican and was trained to be a pious and heroic knight of the Holy Spirit.
But at the last moment, Wei Luoli, who could have cut off Dracula's head, relented for a while, and instead of killing his son, he banished Dracula to the frozen castle, sending him into a gate built with mana that would never return, and using the natural barrier around the frozen castle, which was as cold as the aura of the river veins of the River Styx, to completely imprison Dracula.
Let Dracula spend a long time in the frozen castle for his evil deeds, pray, and apologize, and perhaps a merciful God will forgive him and their unfortunate family. This was the good wish of the Duke of Veloli.
However, the demon protected his proud disciple and sent Dracula the demonic wings that allowed him to break through the aura of the river vein, the bloody cloak.
In this way, the frozen castle that served as Dracula's prison was suddenly transformed into a residence where he could enter and exit freely, sheltering him, and Dracula quickly killed the Duke of Veroli who was caught off guard, and sucked his father's blood himself!
This was the beginning of the tragedy of the Veloli family, and the youngest surviving brother, Cromwell, had to fight to save the family. In order to gain access to that enviable paradise, this people have been fighting valiantly against evil vampires......
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This story is actually similar to the several versions of Dracula's legend that the reincarnators have learned, and there is no substantive guiding significance for the time being, but Zheng Zhe Zhan Lan and a few other more proficient people still appropriately expressed their indignation at Dracula and sympathy for Princess Anna's family.
"I have one more question: Dracula has been rampant in this area for nearly four hundred years, and the Holy See has not paid attention to it, but why did he send someone to kill Dracula recently?" Chu Xuan, who had not spoken since Princess Anna and the two came, suddenly asked an unexpected question.
Hearing this, Princess Anna looked unhappy, and Van Helsing sighed.
Sensing that the atmosphere was a little awkward, Chu Xuan shook his head and said, "Forget it, I just need to know the second half of the problem - what caused you to suddenly attack the Dracula family?"
"Two years ago, there was a ship called the Dietermy......," Van Helsing began to recount in a low tone.
"The ship departed from the port of Vanne near Transylvania, and in the thick fog, at an impossible speed, jumped from wave to wave.
And just a few days before the ship was about to arrive in London, London was shrouded in an inexplicable atmosphere of mountain rain, although people did not feel anything, but rats fled in groups contrary to their habits, lone wolves howled day and night in the suburbs, all the animals in the zoo were restless, and a large number of black crows and bats roamed all corners of London, as if waiting for some feast.
When the ship arrived in the port of London, the people in the harbor were extremely horrified to find that the ship was full of dead people and coffins, and the ship that set the speed record was actually a ghost ship in the truest sense of the word!
It was the 'Undead', 'Bloodthirsty Count', 'Prince of the Night', 'The Lifeless King'...... Dracula, who was known for a series of bloody horrors, traveled to London on this ship in order to obtain a woman named Mina Haaque, who was said to be very similar to Elizabeth.
Then, in just two weeks, he turned London into hell......
This heinous act shocked all of Europe, and just as Dracula was returning to his castle from land with Mina Huac, a team of Europe's top monster hunters intercepted them.
After a fierce battle, the hunter team was completely wiped out, and although more than a dozen priests in the team launched the 'divine punishment' at the cost of their lives, they were stopped by the woman with her body for Dracula......"
"What is 'Divine Punishment'?" Chu Xuan suddenly asked.
"It is an offensive 'divine art' second only to the 'divine judgment', if you are a believer of the Lord, you will be fine, but if you are an evil person or a dark creature, even if you don't die on the spot, your soul will be burned by the Holy Flame until it turns into nothingness.
So the woman is doomed, because before that, Dracula had baptized her with his own blood. β
"In this way, instead of killing that vampire, you have lost a lot of strength, isn't that even more a reason why you can't trouble him now?" Chu Xuan frowned and asked meaningfully.
"That woman didn't transform into a complete vampire at the time, so she wasn't completely ruined in an instant by 'divine punishment'. It's just that 'Divine Punishment' will still slowly refine the dark part of her ** and soul until she is eliminated.
In order to save the woman, Dracula needs to find a forbidden method that allows light and darkness to coexist in harmony. β
"Oh, the so-called forbidden method is ......," Wang Zongchao asked, his eyes narrowed when he heard the word "taboo".
ββ¦β¦ Yes, light and darkness are incompatible in nature, and it is necessary to make them harmonious, not the Holy See, not necromancers, and no witchcraft, in this world, only one system can do it!" Looking at the group of Orientals in front of him, Van Helsing also realized that the group of people in front of him were not believers in the Lord, and he paused for a moment to consider the wording, trying to avoid extreme words such as "taboo" that are easy to cause conflicts.
"So Dracula didn't go back to the frozen castle, but took the dying Mina and set off again, and at that time, although we couldn't gather enough strength to fight him in a hurry, it didn't prevent us from listening to his itinerary clearly......" Van Helsing lowered his voice as he spoke of this passage, due to the embarrassment of the Holy See.
"Dracula went to China!
A year earlier, he had returned, and he had come into conflict with another heretic, Victor Frankenstein, who was also hiding in Transylvania at the time.
Victor's public identity is that of a scientist, but the Holy See finds out that he is actually a necromancer and is also proficient in alchemy. Although there are no obvious misdeeds, what is most intolerable to the Holy See is his attempt to challenge God's authority by combining science, necromancy, and alchemy to create a true life. His actions led him to be classified as the greatest heresy by the Holy See more than a decade ago.
Their conflict soon ended with Victor's death, but Dracula's strength was surprisingly weak.
In view of this, we have infiltrated the intelligence network in the Far East, and after comprehensive analysis by many parties, we have learned an astonishing fact:
Dracula has been severely injured in China for a short period of time and cannot simply rely on bloodsucking to recover, and he has not recovered!
So, now is the best time to kill Dracula in four hundred years!"
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In an empty medieval-style hall, dark red light flowed around like a light veil, falling on strange statues, on walls, ceilings, faded draperies and ancient drawings, casting even stranger red shadows, and reflecting the blood of medieval armor and sharp weapons, as if they had just killed someone.
And in the middle of that hall lay an ancient and heavy sarcophagus, the lid of which had been removed, and in it lay a corpse that had been dead for many years and had been dried in the air, with yellow skin like vestigial bark wrapped around the bones, gray and unlustred hair scattered in disarray, hollow eye sockets, and a wide open mouth, horrible and dirty.
On the lid of the coffin on the side, a few lines of words can be clearly seen.
If Saito had been here, he would have recognized that the words were written in Old Latin - "I am the bird of Hermis, and I devour my own wings to control my heart." β
At this time, the hall reverberated with spell syllables that were sometimes sharp and high-pitched, sometimes low and majestic, and breathtaking.
Akado, a vampire girl in a bloody cloak, is kneeling on the ground in front of the sarcophagus, raising her arms to the sky, Sakura chanting a mysterious incantation, her arms are as white as jade, her long nails are like clear glass, and her brown hair flutters wildly in the absence of wind.
It is like a devout nun praying to heaven.
Above her head, thousands of blood cells were suspended in the void, radiating red light, like a sky full of stars, but the color was blood red.
With her spell, the blood balls flowed down small red ribbons, as soft as water waves, embedded in the girl's body.
Bathed in blood-colored streamers, as time passed, the life force plundered from thousands of villagers filled the whole body, and the wounds of the body gradually healed, and the whole body was full of energy and strength.
"Ahh
And in her blood-stained mouth, the three fangs grew longer and sharper, and the other missing fang gradually grew out.
By the time she calmed down, the blood cells floating above her head had been reduced by nearly a quarter.
Then, she stretched out her slender arm, her nails cut through the blood, and the blood flowed out, condensing into a bead of blood.
"The blood of the descendants is the guide, the knowledge that is inherited, the power that is used, as you are born. Bring you fresh flesh and blood, full of energy......"
With these words, the girl flicked her fingers, and blood beads flew out, driving the remaining thousands of blood balls, like the tide of the sea, rushing towards a thick sarcophagus in front of her.
The blood was turbulent, and the sound of the tide was everywhere, but as soon as it entered the sarcophagus, it immediately disappeared, as if the sarcophagus was hiding a bottomless black hole that was devouring this qiΔ.
"Mina ......" As the blood wave was completely swallowed, a hoarse and dry exclamation came from the sarcophagus.
The sound was not loud, but it brought a mighty echo, which repeatedly fluctuated and vibrated in the empty hall, and a thick and almost solidified sense of oppression filled all directions, and the terrifying power from hell startled a group of bats that inhabited in an unknown corner, and flew in all directions.
Then, a bloody human body suddenly sat up from the sarcophagus.
It should have been a shriveled corpse, but at this moment, it seemed to have absorbed enough water and became full at this moment, but the body was incomplete, bloody, degraded eyelids, and a dislocated mouth, which looked even more terrifying.
"Father......" The girl kept kneeling and exclaimed in fear, "I beg your forgiveness, but I urgently need your guidance and help!"
"Don't hesitate to launch a blood sacrifice to wake me up...... My daughter, judging by the memories in your blood, you are in a lot of trouble...... Well, and the blood you woke me up in actually contained two powerful breaths, one of which was very familiar...... It turned out to be Gabriel, and the other ...... It's strange, it's strange......" Count Dracula's bloody face and hoarse voice were terrifying.
Accardo was still on his knees, not even daring to raise his head, "Yes father, during your sleepy year, I have followed your instructions to guard our dark territory and look for traces of Frankenstein. But now...... Even the Divine Judgment has appeared in our realm. β
"Divine Judgment?" Hearing this, the Count stood up from the sarcophagus, and at this moment, his blood-dripping skin began to heal, and soon became smooth and white, and the gray and dull white hair soon became black and shiny, and the muscles on his back were derived one by one, like a vine full of vitality around the branches, and soon, a healthy, strong ** appeared in front of Acador's eyes.
"Impossible!" staring at Accardo kneeling at his feet, the Count shook his head, his voice clear and magnetic as his body recovered.
"If it is the Divine Judgment, it is impossible for you to stand in front of my eyes anymore, facing the Divine Judgment, even if you have the bloody cloak to protect you, your ** and soul will still be completely reduced to nothingness in the scorching light and flames.
And the divine judgment will always be launched in the Vatican, and the Holy See will never let more than half of the cardinals leave the Vatican, their history is too heavy, and there are too many ulteriors and things to protect. If nothing else, as long as the Vatican's guardian power weakens, no matter how rotten their heads are, the Blood Clan elders will definitely launch a surprise attack regardless of QiΔ and recapture the spear of Longinus.
However, this kind of method of destroying the Crimson Realm has never appeared in the hands of the Holy See, so it seems that it is likely to be the means of the group of Orientals. β
As he spoke, a layer of incomparably bewitching red flames ignited on the Earl**'s body, reflecting his figure hideously. What's even more terrifying is that in that flame, countless twisted and wailing human faces faintly appeared. Subsequently, Hongyan condensed and materialized against his body, and finally turned into a blood-red windbreaker with a high collar, which made his tall body even more majestic and terrifying.
"Will they be the opponents you have met in Huaxia?" asked Akado with some trepidation, if it was a terrible enemy that could inflict heavy damage on the Count and still not fully recover, it was definitely not something she could deal with.
The Earl was noncommittal, but showed a thoughtful expression, and after a while he said slowly:
"Every powerful creature in the world has its own territory, a monkey can only occupy a tree, while a tiger can occupy several hills, and the strong can tolerate weak creatures in their domain, but cannot tolerate equally powerful creatures threatening its dominance.
Therefore, for the religious people of China, and even for our fellow Orientals who can only survive in the dark, I am an outsider who is dangerous and must be eradicated, and their power can do this, and it is already a fluke that I can come back, if it were not for the fact that the charm used by my opponent to seal me happened to have a blood component of a spirit dog that I could use.
But when I have withdrawn from their territory, it is not in their way to pursue me even to eliminate me, and the xenophobic and conservative personality of that people means that they will not do so......
You first order Lesda to come over in my name, that guy's strength is not weaker than yours, but his experience is much richer than yours, let him test the details of that group of Orientals first!"