Chapter 101

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

Wu Pifu used one finger to hold up the Samoyed that was growling and snapping at him. He looked at the Samoyed from left to right with extreme curiosity. When he moved his finger, the Samoyed was even flipped over a few times by him, allowing him to examine it thoroughly from front to back, left to right, and top to bottom.

The Samoyed's eyes showed first brutality, then horror, then extreme shame and anger, and finally a numbness that felt worse than death. 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 the Samoyed unable to move. Wu Pifu continued to mutter to himself, "And the hair color is wrong, too. Your hair color is brownish-yellow, right? How did it become pure white after turning into a dog?"

The "worse than death" look in the Samoyed's eyes had already turned into despair. It actually wanted to break free from Wu Pifu's palm to escape, but at this moment, Wu Pifu's palm didn't even move, yet its entire body was immobilized. It could only growl and bark "Awoo, awoo" in anger, but because it was a Samoyed and also a young child, the sound seemed soft, glutinous, and cute no matter how one listened to it.

Wu Pifu noticed that even though the Samoyed wanted to escape, its eyeballs still glanced at his leather pouch from time to time.

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

Moreover, 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 took 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, at this moment, it actually stopped barking and kept its mouth shut tight.

"Want to eat?"

Wu Pifu handed the meatball to the side of the Samoyed's mouth and brought it close to its nose, but this Samoyed stubbornly kept its mouth shut this time.

Wu Pifu thought for a moment, took a small bite, and then said while chewing, "It's really delicious."

"Woof, woof, woof!"

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

The Samoyed was stunned, then it immediately lowered its head, and bean-sized tears rolled out of its eye sockets. It swallowed the meatball in its mouth after biting it twice.

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 heaving with sobs.

"Choked?" Wu Pifu asked.

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

"Do you 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, it's a pity I don't have any water on me," Wu Pifu said once more.

The little girl immediately pounced on Wu Pifu, growling and roaring in her mouth as she pounced, but then she was pressed down on the head by Wu Pifu's palm again. Her small hands and feet couldn't reach Wu Pifu at all.

The little girl was first angry, then aggrieved, and then suddenly burst into loud tears.

Wu Pifu laughed, loosened his palm, and then looked around, saying, "May I ask what place this is?"

The little girl cried for a while, then wiped her tears with her linen clothes, and at the same time 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 a palm again, and she couldn't move an inch. She kept reaching out to scratch and hit the palm on her head, but she couldn't shake the palm at all, not even scratching the skin.

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

Daphne's eyes were full of humiliation, but now her attitude toward Wu Pifu naturally couldn't be the same as it was at the beginning. After struggling for a long time without success, she knew she had met a tough person, so she simply sat down and said, "Castlevania, this is the Castlevania region."

Wu Pifu also took the opportunity to loosen his palm 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... it is 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 three words "Castlevania" reminded him of a game he had played before. As for transcending time and space...

He asked, "Does it mean that it is possible to enter here from any location and any time?"

Daphne tried hard to put on a serious expression with her childish little face and said, "Yes, that's right. From the time 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 huge, peerless castle.

Castlevania, huh.

He didn't know if it was a Dream World based entirely on the game plot he knew, or that kind of hodgepodge that seemed similar but wasn't. But regardless of which Castlevania it was, its horror was unimaginable.

If it was a Castlevania that followed the game plot exactly, 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 vampire derivative works. There was even a Grim Reaper under his command!

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

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

Daphne didn't intend to run away at this time either. She tried hard to restrain her fear, walked to Wu Pifu's side, and said, "To come to this Castlevania, there are only three possibilities. First, those who carry huge desires and crave power, wealth, and eternal life can come. Second, arrive here through black magic. Third, those who have karma with Castlevania can arrive here. So, which kind are you?"

Wu Pifu shook his head. Instead, he looked at Daphne with great interest and said, "On the contrary, you are very strange. A little child like you actually came 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 at this time 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 consciousness, only the chaos belonging to the Demon Realm. If it were something that came out from inside, I'm afraid any 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 magic creatures; they are not something a mortal like you can imagine at all!"

"Ha, so... you turned into a Samoyed?" Wu Pifu laughed and said.

"Awoo!"

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

Wu Pifu looked left and right and said, "Besides you, are there any other people nearby?"

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 an 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, who was wearing tattered linen clothes. If one looked closely, one could see blue-purple marks on her skin, which seemed to be caused by being hit by some heavy object.

"... So, because you were naughty, you had a conflict with the people in the village?" 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 a dark bloodline! How could humans not be hostile to me? Even though the Papal Palace 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 know about the Declaration of Sentient Life at all. 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 Wu Pifu's empty space with her mouth wide open again.

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

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

Daphne kept her mouth shut stubbornly.

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

Daphne said at this time, "It is possible, but this is 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 in Castlevania and the magic creatures he controls, you cannot break this barrier."

"Besides breaking it directly, any magic barrier has so-called nodes. To leave the Castlevania region, one must enter Castlevania. The nodes of this barrier are distributed inside, 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 enter the Castlevania region, even if you don't enter Castlevania, you have 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's impossible to escape forever."

Wu Pifu thought about this information silently. 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 can really kill the Demon King, then this generation of Castlevania will collapse, and then naturally you won't be bound by Castlevania anymore. But can you?"

Wu Pifu laughed happily and didn't speak.

Daphne didn't speak either, just followed Wu Pifu silently. 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 in his heart. He suddenly asked again, "Speaking of which, why did you attack me just now? Did you want 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 strange 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, but there were firelight and explosions at the entrance of the village.

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

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

(End of chapter)