Coupled with the blood-sucking urge brought about by not drinking blood for a long time, Minnie Huck finally had to choose to be frozen all year round to escape from the darkness that seemed to have no end.
Although she never complained about it, Dracula knew that she was in great pain, but she never said it.
There may indeed be love between the two of them, but this love still seems a little pale in the face of the physical and mental torture of reality.
Looking at her silent husband, the woman also showed a sad expression:
"My dear, it's not just me. You must also be feeling very painful about being a vampire! Immortality seems very beautiful, but the price is that you will never see the light of day, and can only numb yourself with endless blood and killing. Did you marry me because you truly love me, or are you missing the happy times you spent as a human?"
Yes, as Dracula's closest companion, even though they didn't spend much time together, Minnie Harker still noticed the pain and helplessness hidden in his heart beneath his wanton appearance.
He was also tormented by the eternal life of this vampire, but he sank deeper and had no way back. In the end, he chose to use blood, killing, and so-called "love" to alleviate the emptiness in his heart.
But this "love" ultimately turned into just another form of eternal torture for Minnie Hack.
"..."
Dracula was silent.
He couldn't argue with his wife.
Indeed, although he appeared to be a notorious vampire king who had shrouded Romania in terrifying darkness for hundreds of years, his heart had never found peace.
Empty, painful, helpless, he could only cover up these feelings with superficial bloodlust and killing like a child crying on the ground, and hope to be killed in a battle by a human who was braver and stronger than him.
A hundred years ago, the reason why he seduced Minnie Hack and turned her into his own kind was, on the one hand, because she looked so much like his wife when he was still a human, and on the other hand, he was trying to slowly fill the void in his heart through this "love".
But now, it turns out that his "love" is, after all, just bringing pain to himself and others.
Chapter 111 Death and Rebirth
"..."
Dracula looked up at the sky. At this moment, he finally stopped concealing his inner fatigue and pain.
"You're right, it's time for this to end."
He said, smiling at his wife, and no longer trying to control the wound on his chest, allowing the blood that represented his soul and life to flow out.
Minnie Harker responded to her husband with a smile, but tears flowed from her eyes involuntarily.
"Don't cry, my lady, this is the fate I deserve."
Dracula said comfortingly:
"Raise your head and look towards the sky. From now on, you will be bathed in the sunshine again. You don't have to hide in the darkness like me."
As he spoke, the heavy clouds that had been summoned by Dracula's magic and had covered this land for hundreds of years slowly dissipated, and golden sunlight shone through the gaps in the clouds, shining on everyone.
A blazing flame instantly ignited from Dracula's body. He no longer resisted the burning sunlight and allowed the deadly flames of the vampires to devour him bit by bit.
The same flames also burned above the Dead River Army, mixed with the dark blue phosphorescence, further destroying this undead army that should not exist.
"Farewell, then!"
Looking at Minnie Harker, who was also bathed in the sunshine but unharmed, Dracula said his final goodbye.
The next moment, his body collapsed like burnt charcoal, turning into countless scattered ashes.
"Farewell, my love."
Watching this scene, Minnie Huck murmured and burst into tears.
……
"So, what are you going to do with her?"
After everything was over, Van Helsing and Yamasaki An also came down from the mountain and came to this valley.
Facing Yi Shen's question, Van Helsing thought for a moment and said:
"I will contact the Vatican and help her find a new identity. Whether she lives out the rest of her life in a monastery, finds a job to support herself, or even finds someone to marry, it's all her choice."
"This is a good ending."
Yi Shen nodded:
"I was worried that you would tie her up and burn her to death as if she were one of Dracula's accomplices."
"If she were still a vampire, then we might, no, we would definitely do it. But now, she is just an ordinary, harmless woman."
Van Helsing said this, then changed the subject and asked Yi Shen:
"Okay, let's not talk about her anymore. What about you? Dracula has been eliminated. Where will you go now?"
Yi Shen looked at the exorcist with hesitation on his face and smiled silently.
Yes, before, Van Helsing was still doubting the identities and positions of these players, but because of the existence of Dracula, he temporarily put it aside. But now that Dracula has been eliminated, he naturally brought up the matter again to ensure that they would not become a new threat.
"I know what you're worried about. Don't worry. As I said before, we were sent to this world by God. Now that we've completed this mission, it's natural for us to return to God's kingdom and wait for Him to arrange for us to go to the next battlefield."
Yi Shen said this.
"..."
Van Helsing still had some doubts.
Returning to the kingdom of "God", what a joke, can you ascend to heaven right in front of me?
Then, he heard Yi Shen say:
"Well, it's almost time, let's just say goodbye!"
As soon as the words fell, the three players disappeared in an instant.
Van Helsing gasped.
He finally completely believed what Yi Shen had said before.
It turns out that those legendary apostles who were sent down to earth by God actually existed!
Even if the God who sent them to this world is not the God in the Bible, he is definitely an equally great being!
……
Not to mention the surprise of Van Helsing and Minnie Harker, on Yi Shen's side, after the familiar eyes went dark, the light and shadow changed, and they came to the void when the task was completed.
However, unlike the previous independent safe zones, this time, they found that the three of them appeared in the same space!
"So after forming a team, even the safe zones are connected?"
Mai Sakurajima looked at her teammates and sighed.
It's funny to say that the three of them never entered the safe zone once during the intervals between the last mission, so they only discovered this now.
"That's not bad. This way, we don't have to worry about not having a place to practice with each other. We can do it right here!"
The first thing Yi Shen thought of was that he had no place to practice - before, only Yamasaki An and Sakurajima Mai could use his Five Visions to practice in the illusion, but he could only watch from the side.
Now, the three of them had their safe zones merged together, and they finally had an absolutely safe place where they didn't have to worry about getting hurt or being discovered by the outside world.
Just as the two of them were sighing, Yamasaki An's voice came from the other side:
"Look, what is this?!"
The two looked in the direction of the sound and saw a screen projected in the air where Yamasaki An was pointing.
When I got closer, I found that it was a series of pictures that kept switching like slides.
It shows the scene of several people appearing in the Vatican to meet Van Helsing; the experience of crossing mountains and seas to arrive in Romania; the scene of meeting Princess Anna and fighting off the bat monsters sent by Dracula; and even the later scenes of reversing the werewolf, airborne transport plane, breaking into the castle, hijacking Minnie Harker, fighting Dracula, transforming Minnie Harker back into a human being, etc., until finally Dracula gave up the struggle and voluntarily accepted death, and then several players returned from the mission world, all of which appeared in it one by one, and what everyone did was all vivid.
"Is this, everything we do in the mission world?"
Yi Shen raised his eyebrows. This was a function he had never seen before.
"Is this also a change that occurred after forming a team?"
Sakurajima Mai was puzzled.
"Probably so."
Yi Shen nodded:
"Looking at how detailed it is, it's probably a review for the players who form a team, confirming their contributions to the mission."
After all, not all relationships between players in a team are as harmonious as those of the three of them. If there are some teams formed purely for profit, and if someone is dissatisfied with the efforts of others in the task, this kind of review scene can be used as a basis for reasoning.
"Huh? It's not over yet?"
Yi Shen noticed that after the scene switched to the scene where they left, it did not stop, but continued to evolve.
First, there was the scene of Van Helsing leaving the valley with Minnie Harker, then there was the meeting and farewell with the two members of the Valaris family, and then there was the return to the Vatican to report the results of the mission to the Knights of the Holy Order...
It turned out to be the changes that continued to occur in the plot of the mission world after they left.
Several people looked at each other in surprise, and continued to stare at the screen, wanting to see what happened next.
Then they saw that Minnie Harker, who had voluntarily entered a convent, soon found herself pregnant and gave birth to a baby nine months later.
But what is amazing is that this baby is born with extremely strong regenerative ability, and his eyes are blood red like a vampire, but he is not afraid of silver, holy water, crosses and sunlight.
Van Helsing, who learned of this, rushed over and said something to Minnie Harker, but eventually he took the child as his apprentice.
Decades later, when Van Helsing had grown old, a young man took over his mantle and continued on the road of defeating dark creatures under the name of "Hellsing", but his enemies still called him by another title - Daywalker!
Chapter 112: Daywalker, Taking Stock of Harvest
"Could this 'Daywalker' be..."
Looking at the young man at the end of the screen who looked 70% like Dracula, Yamasaki An's face was filled with surprise.
"That should be it."
Yi Shen nodded:
"Dracula's posthumous child, half human, half vampire, possesses the strength and self-healing abilities of a vampire, but without any of their weaknesses. I didn't expect the mission to leave us with such a surprise at the end!"
If you think about it carefully, maybe this child was already there a long time ago. After all, Dracula and Minnie Harker have been married for hundreds of years. Even if the latter is not sober much, she must have done what she should have done. I don't know when the seed was planted and the pregnancy was conceived.
However, in traditional settings, vampires are infertile. Even in the movie "Van Helsing", Dracula gave birth to countless stillborn babies and had to seek Dr. Frankenstein's technology to give life to all the fetuses.
Although the mission world they went to this time was partly inspired by the settings of "Hellsing", it should be the same in this respect.
Dracula and Minnie Harker's child was doomed from the moment of birth to be unable to gain life or even be born, but things changed when Van Helsing used a ritual to reverse Minnie Harker's vampirism and turned her back into a human.
From life to death, and from death to rebirth, from an immortal vampire to a human being, naturally the stillborn fetus that was originally unable to gain life regained its vitality.
But this fetus has Dracula's blood after all, and it is impossible for it to be a mortal.
The half vampire blood gave him extraordinary strength and regenerative ability, while the other half human blood made him immune to all vampire weaknesses, eventually creating a peculiar half-human, half-vampire creature - the Daywalker.
"But, this ending seems pretty good, right?"
Sakurajima Mai said this.
"...The vampire child eventually became a warrior who exterminated vampires... Well, in a sense, it's not bad."
Yi Shen shrugged, indicating that the joke was a bit hellish.
"Hey, look, this mission reward seems to appear directly below this panel!"
Yamasaki An shouted.
"Ok?"
Only then did Yi Shen notice that a panel popped up below the review screen, displaying three cards.
Looking at my game panel again, I found that the reward bar that used to appear after each mission had disappeared.
"After forming a team, are the rewards also distributed together..."
Thinking this, he and his two teammates went forward to see what the reward was.
The first card had a familiar figure printed on it - Van Helsing.
Yi Shen, who had seen Ada Wong's character card before, immediately realized that this was also a character card, [Character Card: Van Helsing].
If you only look at the data on paper, this does not seem to be a very powerful card. After all, judging from the situation in the last mission, Van Helsing in that world is still an ordinary human being after all, and does not have any special identity like God's Right Hand.
However, in Yi Shen's opinion, this card is very precious.
Because Van Helsing's real strength is not his fighting ability, but the mystical knowledge he knows in his mind!
Just look at the experience of this mission and you will know. A person without any supernatural power, relying only on rituals and some sacred objects with divine power, reversed a werewolf and a vampire back into humans one after another, and used extremely mixed and even blasphemous rituals and formations. This ability to freely mix and match the power of various schools and religions to produce the effect he wants is enough to show how terrifying his attainments in mysticism are.
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