Chosen Evolution: I can load the protagonist template

Chapter 582 I will make all players feel my pain!
Ah~ I forgot about this thing~
Upon seeing the notification from the space, Cheng Tiancai slapped his forehead and finally remembered that the Matou family had such a thing.

Matou Zangen, commonly known as the Old Bug, is one of the figurative representations of the mushroom's perverse sense of humor.

In fact, Matou Sakura's original name should be Tohsaka Sakura. However, her good-for-nothing father had a brain fart and, because of the Tohsaka family's "single-child inheritance system," which means that only one person can inherit the Magic Crest, he adopted poor Sakura into the Matou family.

Young Sakura was not only "expelled" from her home, but also suffered inhuman abuse in the Matou family. Under long-term and continuous modification, countless Crest Worms burrowed into her body, completely merging with her magic circuits and human nerves.

Zouken Matou, the mastermind behind the incident, took the opportunity to insert his own brain worm, which was deeply fused with the Crest Worm and possessed its own consciousness, into Sakura's heart.

Actually, using the "swarm" from StarCraft to describe Zouken Matou would be quite apt, as he is essentially a swarm of Crests that has completely abandoned his human form.

As Qiuqiu ripped out the brain worm that housed Zouken Matou's spirit, it was almost equivalent to destroying Sakura's core nervous system. Well, to give a more apt example...

When the tooth was extracted, a large section of the dental nerve hidden inside the gum was also pulled out.

It hurts! It really hurts!
But at this moment, while Sakura was in pain, she also felt an indescribable sense of pleasure.

Grandpa, who had tormented him for eleven years and would likely continue to torment him as well, died and turned into a pile of worms.

The smiles of exhilaration and the distortions of pain flickered across Sakura's face, while a faint aura of darkness emanated from her body.

Of course, Qiuqiu's main purpose was not to kill the old bug. Her behavior was more like picking out the conspicuous bugs in the rice bowl and crushing them before the meal was officially served.

Moreover, it seems that she doesn't have any obvious obsession with cleanliness when it comes to food; as long as she picks out the insects, she can still eat the rest of the food.

The emphasis is on not wasting food.

Perhaps imitating Cheng Tian, ​​Qiuqiu raised his sword finger, and the black mud covering the surrounding area enveloped Xiaoying, who had regained her senses. As her face was completely covered by the black mud, one could clearly see that this tormented girl had revealed the same smile of revenge.

The next second, a large number of black and red magic ribbons appeared out of thin air and wrapped around Qiuqiu's entire body. At the same time, a large familiar appeared behind him, with a body size almost identical to the transformed Hundred Dragon King. Its body was flat and resembled a combination of a shoe insole and a sanitary napkin, and it seemed as if it could sway in the wind!

Cheng Tian could sense that Qiu Qiu had gone to great lengths to retrieve Matou Sakura, the pseudo-Holy Grail, precisely to engage in large-scale unit battles.

If the previous ordinary adult and child-sized Black Mud units were cannon fodder, and Black Mud Sasaki and Black Mud Medea were elite units, then this large insole familiar should be a champion-level fighter.

Cheng Tian can use the local spiritual veins to summon a horde of demons from the Demon Castle without restraint, and Qiu Qiu can certainly use the same method to summon even more familiars.

After being messed up by these two, even if the spiritual vein problem isn't resolved, it will probably take them a long time to recover.

One becomes two, two becomes four, and the classic insole quartet is thus recreated from Qiuqiu's hands.

These large insole familiars didn't have any particularly special abilities, but their strength and speed were quite astonishing, making them very effective in physical attacks. The damage they inflicted on the Hundred Dragon King and the Velociraptor accumulated until the Hundred Dragon King itself withered down and reverted to its original form as Geiz.

"Hmph~ It's nothing special~~" Qiuqiu held its head high and puffed out its chest, looking arrogant.

Faced with this situation, Cheng Tian couldn't help but applaud.

Although he hadn't really expected the Hundred Dragon King to stop Qiuqiu, the strategy Qiuqiu used was indeed beyond his expectations.

As the two metal units collapsed, the gates to the Purgatory Arena slowly opened, and they were now very close to the throne where Cheng Tian stood.

As the area's name suggests, this is an arena area that resembles purgatory, filled with bloodstained battlefields of all sizes, and filled with prisons and skeletons.

As Qiuqiu approached, the piles of bones seemed to come alive, standing up and grabbing any bone clubs they could find, throwing them at Qiuqiu.

Some people who don't have bones on hand even simply disassemble their own ribs, radius, femur, and other parts and throw them around.

Cheng Tian obviously didn't replace the skeletons here, because the original ones were already quite threatening.

The white ones are alright, but the red ones are simply individuals that can regenerate indefinitely, so even if you break them, it's useless.

Meanwhile, numerous Lesser Metal Raptors, a Mad Oran armored warrior wielding a shield axe, and Medusa heads flying everywhere also appeared here.

After all, it's the penultimate level of the original Castlevania, so the quantity and quality of monsters have been significantly improved.

Qiuqiu, who has acquired a new familiar that can shield him from damage, is doing a little better (Cu Chulainn: Save the dog!), but the challengers behind him are clearly starting to feel the pressure.

It's not that they lack strength. In fact, Cheng Tian's Castlevania isn't particularly difficult overall. Even installing new mods on the grunt bosses wouldn't significantly increase the difficulty. However, they always manage to frustrate the bosses in certain specific situations.

Cheng Tian used the domain rules of Castlevania to indirectly force all challengers to load a universal template, the most impactful of which was the forced "hit evasion".

Yes, it's exactly the same as the passive skill of the same name in the "Simon Belmont" template that Cheng Tian loaded during the novice trial—

As long as you suffer a single effective attack from the enemy, even if it only reduces your HP by 1 point, you will be passively triggered to perform a forced backflip and gain a 3-second phase shift state.

The game developers' original intention was probably to give players more reaction time and safety time by using the forced displacement and phase movement after being hit, and to create distance from enemies. However, in Castlevania, which has many jumping platforms and annoying flying units, this hit dodge is purely a negative feature!
The reason this group hasn't been able to catch up with Qiuqiu's progress is because they've already fallen back to the first level more than once due to the flying bone clubs, ghost cicadas, and Medusa's head...

When playing games, you should experience the whole game – not just the fun, but also the pain!

Watching the challengers fall back to the first level, Cheng Tian let out a truly demonic laugh!

(End of this chapter)