Even with a dozen half-fishmen paddling desperately, the raft was not fast upstream, and the voyage of less than ten kilometers took more than two hours.

"Wake up, Castlevania has arrived."

Luo Jie stretched out his hand and shook up Xia Ping Linghua, who was sleeping soundly on his shoulder, and raised his finger to the towering moonlit building in front of him.

Xia Ping Linghua rubbed her sleepy eyes, and her dark pupils couldn't help but open instantly.

Castlevania.

It's not so much a castle as it is a huge three-dimensional city.

The outer walls of the castle, which are more than 100 meters high, are protruding from thousands of rooms and tens of thousands of windows.

The dark clouds were overhead, rolling with flickering electric light, and the moment the lightning lit up, countless dark creatures could be seen hovering around the castle, making all kinds of strange chirps from time to time, accompanied by the wind like the howl of ghosts and wolves in the sky, which set off the whole castle more and more eerie.

Walking around the city along the moat, Luo Jie and the others found a flat gentle slope and went ashore, and did not go far before they reached the suspension bridge at the main gate of the castle.

For ease of movement, Shizuka Jukawa reverted back to her white dragon form, squatting steadily on Luo Jie's shoulders like a beautiful ornament.

"Dire-king, this ...... It must be the teleportation array, right? ”

Shimohira Linghua found a very conspicuous platform next to the suspension bridge, made of smooth bluestone more than a foot above the ground, the surface was engraved with mysterious magic runes, and there was a circle of torches that I didn't know what it was used for, and a puff of blue flames burned at the top.

"That's it."

Luo Jie had seen the pattern of this teleportation array in the explorer's strategy in his previous life, so he was very sure that his palm was wiped on the blade of the [Ming Knife Puffer Fish Poison], and a few drops of blood immediately dripped into the groove pattern of the bluestone slab.

At the same time, a corresponding prompt popped up in the visual projection.

[You have activated the "Castlevania Entrance" teleportation array, and you can currently teleport to other locations "Outside Transylvania".] 】

Seeing this line of prompts, Luo Jie's mood relaxed a little inexplicably.

In the world of Van Helsing, the importance of these teleportation arrays is the equivalent of the in-game recording point, and their role is almost irreplaceable.

"Looks like we were the first to arrive."

There is no concept of day and night in the alien space of Castlevania, it is always night.

Luo Jie roughly estimated the time, the outside world should be five or six o'clock in the morning at this moment, and it was almost dawn.

He didn't know how long it would take for the rest of the reconnaissance team to get here, so he simply cut a stump in half, carved a message on the smooth center of the tree, and then returned to Transylvania Town with Shimohira Reika through the teleportation array.

There are a large number of corpses of dark creatures lying around the abandoned castle outside the town, and it is obvious that last night's battle team did not eat hot pot and sing songs here, and also carried out a defensive battle with no low intensity.

Seeing that only Luo Jie had returned, the "Divine Radiance", who had been defaulted to the commander-in-chief of the battle group, obviously changed his face, and when he heard that he was only chased away by monsters, not the entire army, he breathed a sigh of relief, and then asked about the path explored by their reconnaissance team, as well as the corresponding distribution of monsters.

After reporting the information obtained from the reconnaissance to the combat group, Luo Jie left the tired Shimohira Linghua at the combat group's station to rest, and he came to the Transylvanian town again.

As Anna, one of the de facto rulers of the previous place, had promised, the town of Transylvania during the day was no longer closed to outsiders.

Although the townsfolk were still not very friendly, they still acquiesced to the fact that the witchers roamed freely in the town.

Luo Jie didn't wander around and waste time, he directly found the only blacksmith shop in the town, and handed over the [Mingdao Puffer Fish Poison], [Inscription Seal: Interpreter], [Flying Snow: Darkcaster], and the most important material [Lilina Win's Flower Seed] to the NPC blacksmith.

"Oh? You found Lilina Win? What a lucky guy...... Anyway, I was a witcher like you, until I was hit by an arrow in the knee......"

Perhaps because he got a big deal, the blacksmith who was in a good mood chattered endlessly about his glorious history, and at the same time checked every piece of equipment that Luo Jie handed him one by one.

"Hey, you know what? My grandfather's grandfather once said to my grandfather that a long time ago the master of Castlevania was not Dracula, but a very powerful succubus, and Dracula was just her servant...... But later, Dracula became the master of Castlevania, and at the same time opened the door between the human world and the demon world, allowing those dark creatures to travel freely between the two worlds. ”

"Shut up, blacksmith, are you telling that absurd story again? Your grandfather's grandfather was just a blacksmith, how could he possibly know something that the church didn't know? A passing bucket-waisted aunt sneered, and at the same time kindly reminded Luo Jie: "Stranger, don't believe the blacksmith's nonsense, he must be trying to sell his broken stone ...... again."

"It's not some broken stone, it's the heart of the former Castlevania owner, that succubus!" The blacksmith carried the hammer and angrily defended: "If it weren't for the expansion of my blacksmith shop, I wouldn't have sold this heirloom left by my grandfather, and I would have left it to my son!" ”

Luo Jie vaguely felt that this conversation seemed to imply something, and after thinking for a moment, he said to the blacksmith, "Can you show me that heirloom of yours?" ”

In this special fantasy world, the vast majority of players' G points are not enough to lift the ban and strengthen equipment, and basically no one will place such a large order with the NPC blacksmith, so I have never heard of this so-called "original owner of Castlevania" rumors in my previous life.

Luo Jie suspected that his behavior of customizing equipment might have triggered a hidden mission that no one had discovered in his previous life.

The blacksmith dug out a small wooden box in the cabinet of his smith's shop, and from it he took out an irregular stone the size of a fist.

"I used to ask the witchers who passed by for 100 gold coins, and they all said I was crazy...... Just look at your gear and know you're a powerful witcher, you should be able to see the true value of this thing, right? ”

Luo Jie smiled noncommittally, took the irregular stone in his hand, and a system prompt immediately appeared in the visual projection.

【Molika's Heart】

Type: Quest item

Synopsis: The heart of "Morica Ainsland", the adopted daughter of "Beliolu Ainsland", one of the three rulers of the Demon Realm.

Sure enough, it's a hidden mission.