Evolution game, nothing more than that!

"I'll take him to change first. Everyone, go to the living room first. We'll be right back!"

……

After returning to the living room downstairs and waiting for a while, Wilkan came down alone.

"Where's Anna?"

Yi Shen looked behind him but didn't see the gypsy princess.

"I saw she was very weak, so I let her rest upstairs first."

Wilkan said.

A few people thought about Anna's pale face before, and they were not too surprised.

Wilkan sat on the sofa and looked at everyone:

"If you have anything to ask me, just ask. I will tell you everything I know!"

Van Helsing looked at Yi Shen and the others, and seeing that they had no intention of speaking first, he asked:

"Okay, then let me ask, can you tell me what happened after you disappeared?"

"what happened……"

Wilkan lost himself in memories:

"I was fighting with a werewolf and was knocked off a cliff and fell into the river. I seemed to have lost consciousness at that time. When I woke up, I found myself waking up on a mudflat, and then I saw wounds on my body caused by the werewolf's bite. I had only one thought at the time, that I must not hurt Anna, and I must not hurt other innocent people, so I walked into the forest, ready to isolate myself completely. But, but last night -"

His voice became excited:

"My body began to mutate uncontrollably. An impulse emerged from the depths of my heart, telling me to search for my only blood relative. The curse surging in my blood was driving me to turn Anna into a being like me!"

Chapter 91 Types of Vampires

Wilkan gasped for breath, as if trying to use this method to free himself from the bloodthirsty madness in his memory.

Van Helsing handed him a glass of water and asked:

"So, you haven't seen Dracula?"

"……Yes."

Wilkan was silent for a moment, then nodded.

Although it seems a bit sad to say this, the fact is that the Valaris family, who were once able to drive Dracula out of their castle, are no longer even worthy of Dracula's personal attack in their generation. He can easily crush them by sending out a werewolf and some dark minions.

He didn't even care about this newly born werewolf, letting it wander outside and had no intention of completely controlling it.

“Is that so…?”

Yi Shen, Yamasaki An and Sakurajima Mai looked at each other and thought of their previous guess, which was now confirmed.

It seems that it is impossible to find the location of Dracula's lair with the help of the plot.

Van Helsing also realized this, and after asking a few more questions, he let Wilkan go back to rest - he had just become human again and was actually very weak, so he needed to recuperate for a while.

When only Van Helsing and the players were left in the living room, he turned and looked at Yi Shen and the others:

"As you can see, the problem now is how to find that vampire. Do you have any ideas for this?"

"In fact, I'm already dealing with this matter. I've already sent my...my 'familiar' to conduct reconnaissance in the sky. As long as Dracula's lair is built on the surface, I will definitely be able to find it!"

Yi Shen said this, without mentioning that his "familiar" was actually made from his own flesh and blood.

"Oh?"

Van Helsing's eyes lit up:

"That's really good news! As expected, having a magician on the team is so convenient!"

As he said this, he patted Yi Shen's shoulder heavily.

"…I'm glad I could help you."

Yi Shen shrugged and changed the subject:

"By the way, you transformed Wilkan from a werewolf back into a human earlier. Does this only work on werewolves, or does it work on other dark creatures as well?"

"You mean, vampires?"

"You can say that."

Van Helsing thought for a moment and said:

"If this vampire hasn't sucked the blood of other humans since being transformed, then theoretically it's possible."

"Oh? Why can't you suck other people's blood?"

Yi Shen was somewhat curious about the reasons for these conditions.

"The reason is actually very simple."

Van Helsing explains:

"I don't know if you've ever heard the saying, 'Blood is the currency of the soul.' For vampires, the act of drinking blood is like absorbing the soul of another person and integrating it into their own.

If a vampire has absorbed the blood of another person, especially if they have completely drained a person's blood, then their soul is no longer pure. Their own soul and the souls of others can no longer be separated, and naturally they can no longer transform back into a human.

"I see."

Yi Shen nodded, his brows slightly furrowed.

Van Helsing's words just now, "Blood is the currency of the soul", made him think of something not so good.

I just hope it's just a coincidence...

After thinking for a while, he continued to ask:

"You seem to have hunted many vampires. Are there any different levels or types of vampires?"

“Yes, I have killed many.”

Van Helsing nodded and replied:

"As for the types of vampires, from what I know, they can be roughly divided into ghouls, living dead, and vampires.

Among them, ghouls basically have no minds, only the hunting instincts of wild beasts. They are usually transformed from non-virgins after being sucked blood by vampires. Living corpses are usually ghouls that have completed the damaged body after a long time and have initially restored themselves, but their consciousness is still incomplete.

Both of these are relatively easy to deal with. Even ordinary people can easily kill them with a cross or a stake as long as they muster up the courage and cooperate properly.

The last type is a true vampire, not only possessing a powerful immortal body, but also possessing intelligence indistinguishable from that of a human, and even mastering mysterious black magic, making them extremely difficult to deal with! "

"...If you're not a virgin, you'll become a ghoul. In other words, only virgins can become true vampires? Do vampires still discriminate like this?"

Mai Sakurajima, who was standing by, couldn't help but complain when she heard what Van Helsing said.

"That's right, this is all some old-fashioned virgin complex."

Yamasaki An also nodded in agreement.

"..."

Van Helsing glanced at the two ladies, feeling rather helpless at their strange attention, but he still explained:

“This isn’t a matter of discrimination; it probably has something to do with the mixing of souls.

Although there is no definite evidence, I think that after humans have sex with the opposite sex, part of their soul is exchanged with the other person, making their soul no longer pure.

When transformed by a vampire, this impurity causes them to not become a higher-level vampire, but instead become a low-level ghoul. Of course, this is just my personal speculation, and we can't use humans to conduct experiments to verify this."

"That sounds quite reasonable. Isn't there a term describing something like 'fusion of body and soul'? Perhaps this isn't an exaggeration, but a description of reality?"

Yi Shen said this, agreeing with Van Helsing's guess.

Sakurajima Mai: "..."

Yamasaki Anzu: "..."

The two girls were speechless. Could this word be explained in this way?

"By the way, Van Helsing, you just said that most of the real vampires are skilled in the dark arts. How do you deal with them?"

Yi Shen brought the conversation back to the main topic.

"Traps, magical tools, holy objects, silver bullets, whatever you have available."

Van Helsing shrugged.

"No real vampire is easy to deal with, and there's no set formula for defeating a vampire. All I can say is, adapt to the circumstances."

"Adapt to circumstances?... I wonder what kind of tactics we need to use to defeat Count Dracula!"

Yi Shen sighed.

"Dracula... you'll know what he's like when you meet him!"

Van Helsing said this, looking out the window.

There, the distant mountains revealed a vague outline in the gradually brightening sky.

Chapter 92: The First Unprecedented Battle, the Woman in the Ice Coffin

Among the mountains, on top of a snow-capped mountain with most of its peak covered in snow, stands a magnificent castle.

The castle stands on the top of a mountain, surrounded by steep cliffs on three sides. There is only a rugged path in the front, connecting the castle gate with the foot of the mountain.

And in this castle, a figure sitting on the throne slowly opened his eyes.

Needless to say, he is Dracula.

"interesting."

He felt the pure and fierce fighting spirit.

It seems that I can play with this challenger for a while.

He closed his eyes again and waited quietly for the challengers to arrive.

I do not know how long it has been--

"Ok?"

Dracula suddenly raised his head, and his sight seemed to penetrate the castle and see the sky outside.

There, a golden eagle, which shouldn't have been there, was circling high in the sky.

"It's clearly an eagle, but it has a human aura. Is it a familiar? But it doesn't look like one... Hmph! It seems the other side has some unique methods!"

The vampire moved his mind slightly, and suddenly a large group of mutant bats flew out of the castle, chirping and screaming as they attacked the golden eagle in the sky.

Faced with this sudden attack, the golden eagle in the sky remained calm although frightened.

Instead of running away, it dived and rushed into the group of bats.

In an instant, countless sharp teeth and claws pounced on it from all directions, but they were all defeated by a thin layer of invisible force field and failed to hurt it at all.

On the contrary, the golden eagle even launched an attack on the group of bats. Its sharp claws were so powerful that they could make several bloody holes with one grab and kill a mutant bat in one go.

It flew up and down several times, and wherever it passed, dozens of mutant bats fell crookedly from the bat group and fell into the abyss.

But there are so many bats that the death of dozens or hundreds of them has no impact on the entire bat colony.

A large number of bats surrounded the golden eagle, using their bodies to hinder its movements. Some bats even landed on the golden eagle and grabbed its wings with their claws at close range, trying to restrict its ability to fly.

Fortunately, neither the bite in flight nor the close-range grasp could break through the golden eagle's defense. It just spun around and shook off the bat that jumped on its back, then folded its wings and dived, using the force field and gravity acceleration to quickly rush out of the bat group from below, then suddenly flapped its wings and rose up, passing through the edge of the bat group.

The moment it flew over the bat flock, the force field on the edge of its wings turned into an invisible blade, cutting dozens of bats in half in an instant, and blood splattered into the sky.

The golden eagle flew above the flock of bats and regained its height advantage. Then it repeated its old tricks and swooped down again.

This time it did not rush directly into the bat group, but just like when it came up, it slashed diagonally from the side of the bat group, passing by the bat group while slashing with the force field at the edge of its wings.

After shooting down dozens of bats again, it rose to a higher altitude and repeated the previous operation.

For a moment, it seemed that it was not the bats that were besieging it, but more like it had become a hunter, hunting the bats!

The bats dispersed and tried to surround the golden eagle again, but the golden eagle, which seemed to have mastered the essentials of air combat, responded immediately. Before the encirclement was formed, it accelerated and rushed out, then turned around and flew back, continuing to use the previous tactics, cutting off the bats bit by bit like peeling fruit.

"Interesting, interesting! It's so interesting!"

In the castle, Dracula, who had thought he could easily shoot down the enemy's familiar, saw the situation in the sky and laughed out loud.

He didn't expect that a mere familiar could have such combat power. He was looking forward to the challenger this time even more.