Evolution game, nothing more than that!

Under the bright light of the fire, the darkness was forced to retreat. Yi Shen and his companions did not hesitate. They dragged Van Helsing, who was a little dizzy from the explosion, and rushed to the cave entrance along the fire and jumped out!

pat!

The place where they settled was an open-air platform outside the castle, similar to a parade ground.

This was actually the reason why Yi Shen chose this direction to break out. He had already seen in his all-powerful vision that the walls in other directions were either other rooms in the castle or bottomless cliffs. This was the only way to survive.

However, breaking out does not mean they are safe.

Looking back, the darkness was surging out from the hole in the wall, and countless bloodshot eyes could be seen staring at Yi Shen and the others.

"It seems you guys are quite capable, but unfortunately, you shouldn't have hurt her. I'm no longer in the mood to play with you."

Dracula's voice was heard in the air, vague and unclear, making it difficult to tell where he was.

"Hmph! Dracula, you're talking as if you've already won! If you want to avenge your wife, why are you hiding and refusing to show up?"

Van Helsing said sarcastically, trying to provoke the other party's true form.

However, Dracula's response was—

[Show up? What are you talking about? Am I not right in front of you?]

As soon as the words fell, the darkness full of eyeballs in front of everyone's eyes squirmed and stood up, with traces of blood emitting from it, and then a human figure emerged from it, it was Dracula!

Van Helsing then realized that the darkness they had just fought was Dracula, or a part of him!

"Those dead... No, they're not dead. They're the souls you devoured. They've only reappeared with your power!"

He showed a look of realization.

So that's how it is. Only in this way can all the wrong things before be explained.

"What are you talking about, Mr. Helsing?"

Yamasaki An, who was standing by, didn't quite understand.

But Yi Shen understood.

"It's true... 'Blood is the currency of the soul. Drinking the blood of others is equivalent to absorbing their life and soul.' This description of vampires isn't just a description, but a literal description. Dracula holds as many souls within him as the blood of those he drinks. And he can use the powerful power gained from devouring lives to imbue these souls into false bodies, making them fight for him like soldiers."

He said:

"In fact, these souls should be able to serve as Dracula's reserve life. This is why he was able to ignore the damage of silver bullets and holy light before, and why he could not be killed no matter how hard he tried!"

His speculation was not without reason.

Because he had seen an anime with similar abilities in his previous life.

"Hellsing", or it can also be called "Song of Hell", this work seems to not exist in this world after traveling through time, but Yi Shen still remembers the plot in it - it tells the story of a vampire king named Akado.

In this story, Akado, or a "real vampire" like Akado, has such an ability. Every time he devours a person, an extra soul appears in his body. This soul is both the vampire's extra life and a puppet demon controlled by the vampire. When enough lives and souls are devoured, a large number of souls gather together and turn into a "Dead River" - literally a river formed by the dead.

The protagonist of the story, Akado, is a vampire king who has lived for hundreds of years and has millions of souls and lives in his body. He is almost immortal!

Coincidentally, Alucard, when read backwards, is Dracula!

——That’s right, Akado is the pseudonym, or new name, that Dracula took after he was sealed by Van Helsing in the “Hellsing” world and awakened by Van Helsing’s descendant Interkula hundreds of years later.

What’s even more coincidental is that the vampire Yi Shen and his team are facing at this time is Dracula, and even the indigenous teammate who is acting with them is Van Helsing!

Due to all the coincidences, Yi Shen even suspected that the world they were on this mission to was probably the prequel to the world of "Hellsing" hundreds of years ago?

Or is this just the evil taste of the evolution game, stitching together two worlds with the same elements?

Of course, no matter what the situation is, it will not change their current situation.

That is, they must fight against a vampire king who has thousands or even tens of thousands of lives and can ignore holy water, silver bullets, crosses and other restraining objects!

"It's a bit troublesome..."

After hearing Yi Shen's guess, Van Helsing's face turned a little gloomy.

Just from the battle just now, it can be seen that Dracula has devoured quite a few souls.

If it is true as the legend says, that Vlad III, after being resurrected as a vampire, devoured all his enemies, troops, ministers and subjects, then the number of "lives" he has stored is at least on the order of 100,000.

In other words, if you want to kill Dracula, you must kill him effectively and truly one hundred thousand or even hundreds of thousands of times.

This was undoubtedly an impossible task, at least for him as a human being.

On the other side, after hearing Yi Shen's inference, Dracula couldn't help but look at him:

"How perceptive! You've seen through my abilities in such a short time. Then I'll be frank and tell you. Indeed, every soul within me represents a life, and there are 897,455 of them. Do you have enough ammunition to destroy me?"

Chapter 102: Hope of Breaking the Deadlock

"Eight, eight hundred and ninety thousand?!"

Upon hearing this number, Yamasaki An and Sakurajima Mai's faces turned pale.

Van Helsing's pupils also shrank and his heart sank.

Only Yi Shen remained calm.

Sakurajima Mai noticed this and asked in a low voice:

"What can you do?"

"There is indeed one."

Yi Shen nodded.

The other two immediately turned their attention.

Facing their gazes, Yi Shen did not speak, but the Five Visions All-Powerful Sign on his forehead suddenly flashed three times.

In an instant, the expressions of Van Helsing, Yamasaki An and Sakurajima Mai changed.

But in this brief glance, Yi Shen talked to the three of them separately in the form of an illusion and told them his plan.

"Okay, although I don't know where your information comes from, I will trust you this time!"

Van Helsing loaded the last quiver into his crossbow, then drew his pistol with his other hand and attacked Dracula.

Acting with him was Yamasaki An, but she had run out of silver arrows and the thermal weapons in her hands did not have ammunition that could hurt the vampires. However, she was very smart and learned from Yi Shen's previous practice, using grenade launchers to fire flares and incendiary bombs, not seeking to kill the enemy, but only to have some blocking effect.

However, the attacks of the two can only be regarded as auxiliary, the real main attacker is Yi Shen!

Wrapped in thunder, he turned into a shadow and appeared in front of Dracula as if teleporting. The silver-plated sword that he had drawn out at some point was wrapped in lightning and slashed at the opponent fiercely.

The battle started in an instant.

Silver arrows and silver bullets rained down on Dracula, but only made his body shake.

Under his cloak, countless eyes opened in the shadows, and at this moment one disappeared. The wound on Dracula's body that was enough to kill an ordinary vampire instantly disappeared immediately, leaving only the arrows and bullets clanging to the ground.

At this moment, Yi Shen's sword also chopped in front of Dracula. The sword blade wrapped in thunder cut the latter in half in an instant. The silver-plated sword body also played its due effect and took Dracula's life again.

"Not bad, not bad, that's it, that's it!"

Dracula, who was resurrected in an instant, laughed loudly, drew out a long sword from his shadow, and attacked Yi Shen.

His swordsmanship was not fancy, but very sharp and concise, a killing swordsmanship truly honed on the battlefield.

As for Yi Shen, although he didn't know anything about swordsmanship, he miraculously fought Dracula on equal terms.

This is because, at this moment, what flows through the nerves in his body is no longer a simple biological nerve signal, but fluctuations of elemental force!

By replacing nerve signals with lightning elemental power, Yi Shen increased his reaction speed to dozens of times that of a normal person.

In this state, everything he saw turned into slow motion. Even the sword swung by a powerful vampire like Dracula was only slightly faster in his eyes, and he could react in time.

Because of this, even though Yi Shen does not know swordsmanship, he can always judge the direction of Dracula's sword as he swings it, and then intercept, block, dodge, or counterattack. On the surface, it seems that he is as good as Dracula in "swordsmanship" and is not at a disadvantage at all.

No, it cannot be said that he is not at a disadvantage. Yi Shen is even beginning to gain the upper hand!

The lightning on his sword was not just for show. Every time it collided with the opponent's weapon, a strong electric current would burst out, wantonly destroying Dracula's body.

Although it only took Dracula a moment to recover from such damage, it still interfered with his movements, causing more and more flaws in his swordsmanship.

This further caused him to suffer more damage. The silver-plated sword blade wrapped in thunder slashed through his body again and again, piercing his vitals again and again, forcing him to consume more life to resurrect.

What’s even more disgusting is that while facing Yi Shen’s sword, Yamasaki An and Van Helsing on the other side were not idle either.

Their rain of bullets seemed to completely ignore the possibility of accidentally injuring Yi Shen, and they poured down without hesitation towards the place where the two were fighting. Even Yamasaki An's incendiary bomb was thrown directly at the feet of the two, and the scorching flames of thousands of degrees directly engulfed Dracula and Yi Shen.

However, the invisible force field emerging from Yi Shen's body surface rejected all external damage. Even the high temperature of over 2,000 degrees when thermite burned was no different from a gust of warm wind to him.

He endured the "friendly fire" and fought fiercely with Dracula with a sword in the flames. At the same time, Dracula, who was attacked by swords, thunder, flames, silver bullets, silver arrows, etc., had to revive again and again and consume his own life reserves.

"What unimaginable power! Are you really a human?"

Looking at Yi Shen who was unharmed in the fire and unscathed by the gunshot, the resurrected Dracula asked this soul-searching question.

"Of course I count. I'm not a coward like you who gave up your human identity. Every drop of blood flowing in my veins belongs to the human race!"

Yi Shen replied, and swung the sword in his hand down again, cutting a knight who jumped out from under his feet in half with one sword - but Dracula found that he could not win the opponent in a sword fight, so he finally summoned the dead again, trying to turn the situation around by numbers.

Not only Yi Shen, but also Yamasaki An and Dracula were attacked by Dracula.

The darkness filled with blood-red eyes had flowed around the two of them at some point, and one after another, the dead wearing various armors, or even just dressed as civilians, emerged from it, holding various weapons and rushing towards the two of them.

The giant wolf that had been beaten back once before reappeared, relying on its ability to hide in the darkness and appearing and disappearing at will. Its threat was greater than that of all the dead around it combined!

Fortunately, at this moment an eagle suddenly swooped down from the sky, and its wings as sharp as blades swept through the group of corpses, cutting off countless heads.

After that, he specifically targeted the giant wolf. As soon as it showed up, he would immediately drop from the sky and cut it all over with his sharp claws and wings.

——After entering this state of accelerated nerve reactions, Yi Shen was already able to pseudo-multitask. With the help of the stretched sense of time, he could quickly switch perspectives. While his main body was fighting Dracula, he could also control his clone to assist his teammates on the other hand.

However, even though it seems that they have the advantage on the scene, everyone knows that this is just an appearance.

Dracula has a total of 890,000 lives. Even if they fight for ten days and ten nights, it is impossible to kill all of him.

So, where is the breakthrough?

On Mai Sakurajima who disappeared at some point!

Yes, just as the battle started, while Dracula's attention was all drawn to the three people in front of him, Sakurajima Mai, who was at the back, took a step back calmly, and her presence was instantly wiped out, disappearing on the spot.

She will serve as a surprise force to complete the most critical task in Yi Shen's plan!

Chapter 103: Sakurajima Mai's Battle

Tread, step, step...

With footsteps that only she could hear, Sakurajima Mai ran quickly in the castle.

Her destination was clear: the room at the top of the castle.

With the perspective map that Yi Shen had shown her with the help of a vision before, she didn't have to worry about taking the wrong path.

Turn left, go up the stairs, climb all the way up, then cross the corridor to the other side, and continue to go upstairs to the top floor - there was almost no pause throughout the whole process. Relying on her own extraordinary physique, Sakurajima Mai only took more than a minute to reach the destination.

However, when she pushed open the door and was about to step into the room, she suddenly stopped.

Because she discovered that the room was filled with fog!

It's obvious even with my knees that this fog is abnormal!

"This isn't in the intelligence..."

She complained softly, but she knew that Yi Shen was not to blame.

Fog is something that is really hard to see in perspective vision. Even with the elemental vision that can see the flow of energy, it will be covered up by the rich background energy because the entire castle is filled with Dracula's magic.

Although she knew that there was something wrong with the fog, Mai Sakurajima had to go inside in order to complete her plan.

She thought about it, took out a bottle of water from her pocket and drank it, then took a deep breath, held her breath, and walked into the room carefully.

The fog was not thick, and she could see that apart from a tall stone throne, there was only an ice-covered sarcophagus in the middle of the room.

And this sarcophagus, or more accurately, the person in the sarcophagus, is her target!

That’s right, Mai Sakurajima’s trip was to kidnap Minnie Harker, Dracula’s most beloved wife!

Walking towards the sarcophagus step by step, she saw the sleeping figure inside through the ice layer on the surface.

"The goal is correct. Now, the next step is how to open this coffin..."

Mai Sakurajima looked at the ice that was perfectly integrated with the sarcophagus and felt a little embarrassed for a moment.

After thinking about it, she felt that it would be more convenient to just smash the outer sarcophagus and carry the people and the ice away by herself.