Chapter 101

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"No, I can understand a werewolf. I could even understand if you turned into a husky, but why... is it a Samoyed?"

Wu Pifu used one finger to hold back the Samoyed that was growling and snapping at him. He looked at the creature with extreme curiosity, even moving his finger so that the Samoyed was flipped over several times, allowing him to examine it thoroughly from front, back, left, right, top, and bottom.

The Samoyed's eyes showed first rage, then terror, then extreme shame and anger, and finally a numb, life-is-worse-than-death expression. Although it was still barking and biting, it seemed more like a reflex of its body.

Wu Pifu reached out and touched the Samoyed's forehead, which immediately rendered it unable to move. Wu Pifu continued to mutter to himself, "And the hair color is wrong, too. You have brown-yellow hair, right? How did it become pure white after turning into a dog?"

The life-is-worse-than-death look in the Samoyed's eyes had turned into despair. It actually tried to break free from Wu Pifu's palm to escape, but Wu Pifu didn't even move his hand, and the creature was completely immobilized. It could only growl "awoo awoo" in anger, but because it was a Samoyed and also a child, the sound just sounded soft and cute no matter how you listened to it.

Wu Pifu noticed that even when the Samoyed wanted to run away, its eyes would still glance toward his leather pouch from time to time.

The so-called "meat" probably didn't refer to the meat on his body, but the pig demon meatballs in his leather pouch, right?

Furthermore, Wu Pifu didn't feel any killing intent or anything like that, although... a Samoyed running over wouldn't have much lethality anyway.

"So... do you want to eat meat?"

Wu Pifu pressed down on the Samoyed with one hand and pulled out a meatball with the other.

The Samoyed's eyes were full of shame, anger, and despair, but when it saw the meatball, drool immediately flowed from its mouth. However, this time it stopped barking and kept its mouth shut tight.

"Want to eat?"

Wu Pifu held the meatball near the Samoyed's mouth and even brought it close to its nose, but the Samoyed stubbornly kept its mouth shut.

Wu Pifu thought for a moment, took a small bite, and said while chewing, "So delicious."

"Woof woof woof!"

The Samoyed barked frantically, and while it was barking, he stuffed the meatball he had taken a bite of into its mouth.

The Samoyed was stunned, then it immediately lowered its head, and bean-sized tears rolled out of its eyes. It swallowed the meatball in its mouth after taking two bites.

Only then did Wu Pifu let go of the Samoyed. The little white dog whimpered and transformed back into a little girl. She lowered her head, her body trembling with sobs.

"Choked?" Wu Pifu asked.

The little girl lowered her head and said in a hoarse voice, "Don't talk to me!"

"Want a drink of water?" Wu Pifu asked again.

The little girl's voice was filled with anger as she said, "I told you not to talk to me!"

"Hahaha, too bad I don't have any water on me," Wu Pifu said once more.

The little girl immediately pounced on Wu Pifu, whimpering and snarling as she did so, but she was pressed down on the head by Wu Pifu's palm again. Her small hands and feet couldn't reach him at all.

The little girl was first angry, then aggrieved, and then suddenly began to wail loudly.

Wu Pifu laughed, let go of his hand, and looked around, saying, "May I ask what place this is?"

The little girl sobbed for a while, wiped her tears with her linen clothes, and performed a European medieval lady's curtsy: "Daphne, Princess of the Silver Wolf Clan, thanks you for your meat... I will repay you later!"

After speaking, Daphne turned to run, but her head was pressed down by his palm again, and she couldn't move an inch. She kept reaching out to scratch and hit the hand on her head, but she couldn't shake it at all, not even breaking the skin.

Wu Pifu continued to smile and said, "What place is this?"

Daphne's eyes were full of humiliation, but her attitude toward Wu Pifu naturally couldn't be like it was at the beginning. After struggling for a long time to no avail, she realized she had met a tough character, so she simply sat down and said, "Castlevania. This is the Castlevania region."

Wu Pifu also took the opportunity to let go, because the bird on his shoulder had started pecking at him.

"Which region? Which country?" Wu Pifu asked.

Daphne shook her head and said, "There is no such region or country. This is Castlevania... a place that transcends time and space. I heard from my grandmother that the original Castlevania seemed to be in Romania, but after the original Castlevania collapsed, the new Castlevania transcended time and space."

Wu Pifu frowned. The name "Castlevania" reminded him of a game he had played once. As for transcending time and space...

He asked, "Does that mean people can enter here from any location at any time?"

Daphne tried hard to put on a serious expression on her childish face and said, "Yes, that's right. From when Jesus was nailed to the cross, to the Middle Ages, to the Age of Discovery, to my era—people from any era can enter here. From Northern Europe to Western Europe, to Black Africa, to the New World—people from any location can also enter here."

Wu Pifu let out a breath and turned to look at the massive, incomparable castle.

Castlevania, huh.

He didn't know if it was a dream world based entirely on the game plot he knew, or a hodgepodge of similar things, but regardless of which Castlevania it was, its horror was unimaginable.

If it was a Castlevania based entirely on the game plot, then its final boss, the Vampire Count Dracula, was a Demon King-level existence, and a real Demon King at that.

Although he had played two or three Castlevania games, he hadn't delved too deeply into the plot. He only knew that Dracula was a Demon King, not just a simple count-level vampire as in other derivative works. There was even a Death under his command!

A terrifying existence of this level was actually a monster in a Baseline Reality 0.6 world?

Isn't this difficulty jump a bit too big!?

Daphne didn't intend to run away anymore at this point. She tried hard to suppress her fear, walked to Wu Pifu's side, and said, "To reach this Castlevania, there are only three ways. First, those who carry huge desires and crave power, wealth, and immortality can arrive. Second, arrive here through black magic. Third, those who have karma with Castlevania can arrive here. So, which one are you?"

Wu Pifu shook his head. Instead, he looked at Daphne with interest and said, "You're the strange one. How did a little child like you come to Castlevania? And judging by what you said, you seem to be from the outside world, too? You didn't escape from inside Castlevania?"

Daphne also looked at Castlevania and said, "I came from the outside world. I have my reasons for coming... That Castlevania connects to the Demon Realm. Most of the things inside have no intelligence; they only have the chaos that belongs to the Demon Realm. If it were something that came out from inside, I'm afraid any random ghost or skeleton monster could easily kill you!"

Wu Pifu smiled and said, "What about werewolves?" Daphne immediately said excitedly, "Werewolves are even more so! All werewolves are intermediate-level magical creatures; they are not something a mortal like you can imagine!"

"Ha, so... you turned into a Samoyed?" Wu Pifu chuckled.

"Awoo!"

Daphne bit at Wu Pifu, but her head was pressed down by Wu Pifu again.

Wu Pifu looked left and right and said, "Is there anyone else around here besides you?"

Daphne couldn't bite Wu Pifu and said angrily, "There is a village. It was gathered and built by people who have entered here over the past unknown number of centuries... Walk east, and you can reach that village in half a day. Now, let me go!"

Wu Pifu said happily, "Let's go, let's go to that village together. We can't stay in this wilderness forever, right?"

Daphne tilted her head and said, "I'm not going! You go yourself!"

Wu Pifu looked at Daphne. She was wearing tattered linen clothes, and if you looked closely, you could see purple-blue bruises on her skin, seemingly caused by being hit by some heavy object.

"...So, because you were naughty, you had a conflict with the villagers?" Wu Pifu asked.

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Daphne tilted her head and said nothing.

Wu Pifu smiled again and said, "Were you caught stealing food?"

Daphne growled, "You don't know anything... I am a werewolf! I am of the dark bloodline! How could humans not be hostile to me? Even though the Papal Court issued the Declaration of Sentient Life over a hundred years ago, there are too many people from the Middle Ages and ancient times here, and some people from the future don't even know about the Declaration of Sentient Life. They fear me, are hostile to me, drive me away, and even rob me... I wish I could kill them all!"

Wu Pifu laughed and said, "A Samoyed killing a group of people?"

"Awoo!"

Daphne bit at the air toward Wu Pifu again with her mouth wide open.

A few seconds later, Daphne was still obediently following Wu Pifu toward the village. She was truly walking obediently; Wu Pifu placed his hand on her head, and she couldn't control her own body. Whatever Wu Pifu told her to do, she could only do.

The two of them and the bird headed toward the village. Wu Pifu asked as they walked, "So how did you come here?"

Daphne stubbornly kept her mouth shut.

Wu Pifu asked again, "Can one leave Castlevania from here?"

Daphne said at this moment, "It is possible, but it's no different from being impossible."

Wu Pifu frowned and asked, "How so?"

Daphne looked at Castlevania and said, "This place is equivalent to a huge god-level magic barrier. Unless your strength exceeds the sum of the Demon King inside Castlevania and all the magical creatures He controls, you cannot break this barrier."

"Apart from breaking it directly, any magic barrier has so-called nodes. To leave the Castlevania region, one must enter Castlevania. Inside, there are nodes of this barrier, generally manifested as black hearts. Through these black hearts, one can leave Castlevania and return to your time and space point."

"But this is temporary. As long as you have entered the Castlevania region, even if you don't enter Castlevania, you have formed karma with Castlevania. This is equivalent to a magic contract. As time passes, you will dream of Castlevania, and eventually, you will return here."

"Don't think about escaping; it is impossible to escape forever."

Wu Pifu silently pondered this information. He suddenly said, "Then what about killing the Demon King? Killing the strongest Demon King of Castlevania?"

Daphne looked at Wu Pifu with a mocking expression and said, "Dream on. Kill the Demon King? That is the chaos node connecting the Demon Realm and the present world! Of course, if you could really kill the Demon King, then this generation's Castlevania would collapse, and naturally, you would no longer be bound by Castlevania. But can you?"

Wu Pifu laughed happily and didn't speak.

Daphne didn't speak either, just silently followed Wu Pifu as they walked, and she didn't even notice that Wu Pifu's palm had already left the top of her head.

Suddenly, Wu Pifu asked, "Heroic Spirit? Grand Class?"

Daphne showed a strange expression and said, "What do you mean?"

"No, nothing."

Wu Pifu smiled, feeling a little more relaxed inside. He suddenly asked again, "Speaking of which, why did you attack me just now? Was it because you wanted to eat the meatballs in my bag?"

Daphne was silent for a moment, then said frankly, "Um... I was too hungry. The meatball you gave me had peculiar ingredients that attracted me, and..."

"And?" Wu Pifu asked curiously.

"You looked very weak, so I couldn't help but make a move."

"..."

At this time, the village had already appeared in front of them, but right at the entrance of the village, there were flashes of fire and sounds of explosions.

Wu Pifu widened his eyes as he saw a four-meter-tall mecha that looked somewhat like a Zaku being smashed to pieces by a three-meter-tall giant with a hammer. After it fell apart, it exploded with a roar, and a man rolled out of the mecha onto the ground, his life or death unknown for the moment.

No way, a real "hand-dismantled" Gundam—no, Zaku!?