Chosen Evolution: I can load the protagonist template

Chapter 202 Help! There's a cow!

Fighting Balford the Twin Swordsman felt completely different from destroying the Ten Commandments of Moro and the sun god Kukulkan.

Both boss templates are very strong in all attributes and have extremely high health, but they are actually more like a stationary boss unit. The strategy is to memorize the patterns, dodge, and then look for opportunities to attack their weaknesses, repeating the process until a fatal blow is delivered.

However, fighting the purely humanoid BOSS Balford gave Cheng Tian the feeling of playing a sword fight, and that his opponent was also a master. The tension was like the two of them constantly probing each other, exchanging skills, and guessing when to attack. This was completely different from the feeling of fighting a stationary BOSS.

Even though he had successfully reduced his opponent's health by 40%—no, including the self-inflicted damage from the Battle Qi Storm, which was almost 50%—and the opponent was still blinded, he still relied on his experience and instincts to make the most appropriate response, successfully surviving what seemed like a certain death trap and successfully reuniting with his subordinates.

At this point, it's already quite difficult to kill a knight unit known for its agility... But is it safe to successfully rendezvous with the infantry regiment?
Not necessarily!

At this moment, Cheng Tian's mana bar had been depleted by continuous combat. He had withstood the powerful fireball, used Blessed Blade, resisted the militia's tactics, and the 14 MP restored by the madman's fist had just given him. Now, Cheng Tian only had a little over 40 MP left.

Furthermore, because switching instances would clear Cheng Tian's innocent souls, he only had the 20 soul points he had just collected, which was equivalent to 40 MP.

...But that's enough to stir up another wave of trouble!

The fragment of the Sun Gem on the forehead of the Sun Mask began to glow faintly, and a special wavelength that could only affect human units was emitted directly. The target was the two Minotaur Riders with the suffix "Strength" who were not good at mounted combat but had higher strength and red armor. They had already shielded the Twin Swords Knight Balford behind them and were in a defensive stance with their shields raised.

The Ten Commandments Lv4! Activate!
After Cheng Tian completed the extra settlement in Dinosaur Fighter, he discovered that Hundred Demons Night Walk could not be upgraded to Lv7, so he decisively invested 3 skill points into the Ten Commandments.

[Ten Commandments: C-level skill/Lv4, active skill, details omitted.]

You can cast the Ten Commandments Ray on two human units simultaneously. (Originally one)
你每有10点魅力，可操控的活尸单位+2（原本为1），当前最大数量为4（白天魅力属性为11+9=20）。

The maximum straight-line distance at which you can issue commands to undead units is 20 meters of mental attribute (originally 10 meters), currently 740 meters.

When the distance between the two undead units you control is no more than 5 meters, the conversion effect of "Night Parade of a Hundred Demons" cast on one undead will spread to the other undead without consuming additional MP, and it is not limited by the number of ascended units you can hold. (Lv4 Enhancement)

Cheng Tian's Ten Commandments skill, limited to being used only on humans, achieved a powerful judgment effect exceeding that of ordinary C-level skills. The Strength Raider, whose spirit was already slightly lower than his speed counterpart, was transformed by Cheng Tian without any resistance. The dark, rough skin beneath his armor and lining had turned a ghastly blue, like that of a living corpse.

Balford was not immediately aware of anything amiss.

However, Cheng Tian then cleared all the innocent souls he had just collected, and his mana bar dropped to single digits. Correspondingly, the Hundred Demon Night Parade was simultaneously applied to the two undead horned knights.

The two horned knight raiders underwent a dramatic physical transformation in an instant.

The undead horned knight, tentatively designated as number 1, had thrown away its weapon, landed on all fours, its joints deformed, and its torso became even more massive and broad. The horns, originally merely a symbol of status, were now fixed to its head, and its human face had been mutated into the shape of a savage bull. With a twitch of its nostrils, the armored bull exhaled a pale gray cursed gas—Carter Brubas! Dawn of the Castlevania Encyclopedia No. 29, Boss Template, Demon Unit!

Meanwhile, the other undead horned knight, tentatively designated as number 2, experienced a dramatic increase in size, growing from nearly two meters tall (including horns) to almost three meters in the blink of an eye. Horns, again a symbol of status, were now fixed to his head. His red plate armor had completely blended into his skin, displaying a strange, crimson hue. His spiked club and shield had twisted and transformed into a long-handled, single-edged battle axe. This minotaur, also twisted into a bull's head, let out a loud moo—

Red Minotaur! Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow Encyclopedia No. 89, Elite Template, Demon Unit!

The sudden change in the Minotaur Knight, who was originally a friendly unit, not only shocked the NPCs, but also left other players who were also in the Silver Knight Infantry Regiment astonished.

However, under Cheng Tian's mind control, the two bull-attribute demons, having completed the transformation into the Hundred Demon Night Parade, had already launched an attack on Balford.

The armored bull demon Carter Brubas turned around and opened his mouth, spewing out a large amount of gray curse smoke at the dual-sword knight who had just been guarding his target.

Balford, who had already realized that something was wrong with the person next to him and was about to make another jump to dodge, felt a sharp pain and an inescapable difficulty breathing when he inhaled. His movement, which was about to leap out, became unsteady, and he involuntarily clutched his chest and stopped in place.

Blood was spurting from the corner of his mouth.

It turns out that Cheng Tian's second stab with the Blessed Blade, although it seemed to burn the chest and prevent bleeding, caused a puncture injury similar to a pneumothorax!
Given the strength and attributes of the dual-sword knight, if given a little time to catch his breath and allow him to rest and heal on his own, the stab that had already damaged his internal organs should have been able to heal itself... But Cheng Tian never gave him any chance to catch his breath.

The continuous dodging and self-damaging release of aura storms aggravated the injuries that the dual-sword knight should have had a chance to heal. At this critical moment, his difficulty breathing prevented him from dodging the curse smoke from Carter Brubas.

This smoke does not cause harm; instead, it inflicts a significant petrification effect!
Balford felt a strange stiffness in his body, and then he was completely unable to move.

The Twin Swords Knight's entire body had taken on the same gray texture as a stone statue. The power of the petrification curse smoke was successfully detected, and Balford was petrified.

However, it can be seen that the petrified Balford statue is shaking frequently, and stone fragments are being shaken off its body, which means that it is trying to speed up the process of breaking free of petrification by struggling.

Unlike other worlds where petrification increases defense, in Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow, petrification actually reduces the defense of petrified units, affecting both allies and enemies.

But at the same moment, the strong red minotaur, who was standing opposite the petrified bull demon, raised his long-handled battle axe high and slashed down at Balford, who was in a petrified state, with all his might!
Don't forget that there is another characteristic in the stone statue state: when hit by blunt or heavy weapons, limbs are more likely to break.

The red Minotaur chose to strike... Balford's neck!

With a crisp cracking sound, Balford, the Silver Prince's Chief Knight, Supreme Commander of the Silver Knights, and Twin-Sword Knight, had his petrified head sent flying into the sky by Red Bull's full-force strike, forever frozen in his squinting expression—

Balford, petrified decapitation!
(End of this chapter)