Chosen Evolution: I can load the protagonist template

Chapter 7 Vampire Hunter Officially Opens

The first generation of Castlevania allowed players to choose the difficulty level, with two options: "NORMAL" and "EASY".

However, what is very counterintuitive is that the default difficulty of the game difficulty selection interface is normal, not easy!
For the kids who couldn't even recognize all 26 letters back then, they would just randomly press the "START" button when entering the game. Ninety-nine percent of the time, the game would be on normal difficulty. At this difficulty, Simon Belmont, controlled by the player, would gain the ability to "dodge hits."

Once hit, the character will jump back uncontrollably, and the player cannot intervene even if the controller is broken.

If you choose the easy difficulty, you will not jump back when you are hit, but will remain standing. At the same time, the phase shift effect will still be triggered, and players can swim freely in the monster pile.

If it were flat ground, jumping after being hit would not be a big deal, but the problem was that there were a large number of terrain mechanisms such as stairs, pits, and jumping platforms in Castlevania, and once the hit dodge effect was triggered, there was a high probability that one would fall into the abyss on the spot.

If you were to encounter the parabolic bone clubs of skeletons, the S-shaped flying Medusa heads, the running flea men, etc. in these already deadly terrains, that would be the worst feeling!

Some of the reactions of James the Critic when playing the first generation are not exaggerated at all. This is what the players did after hearing the death sound effect.

It has to be said that Cheng Tian is a bit of a gambler, worthy of being the one who likes to put the ace Holy Grail and Time Magician into his deck. This time he is betting that the phase shift effect triggered when he is beaten can avoid the attack from the Vampire Magician.

But the fact is, he made the right bet.

The transformation failed to hit him while he was in the phase shift state, but his body was forced to jump back, which instead produced an effect commonly known as "nitrogen acceleration".

This incident is also recorded in the original game.

Many speedrunners use this mechanism of being forced to jump back after being hit to forcibly jump over certain obstacles that cannot be jumped over in the normal process, and then skip the entire map to save time.

All in is awesome! Keep all in and it’s awesome!

At this moment, Cheng's expression of great joy due to his successful all-in hand could only be described as "ferocious" in the eyes of the vampire magician.

The magician wanted to dodge Cheng Tian's pounce, but the stagnant magic power had already given the answer.

The skill is on CD and cannot be used.

However, just when the magician was ready to use his powerful vampire body to face the physical impact of the weak human, the shirtless Cheng Tian actually passed through the magician's body head-on, as if the two were not on the same level at all!

Obviously, the phase shift effect caused by dodging the attack has not ended yet, and there is no collision volume between Cheng Tian and the magician now.

The magician had never expected Cheng Tian's phase shift to last so long, capable of penetrating not only spells but also people. It could be said that every step was wrong, one wrong step, and then another. Just as the magician, who had been penetrated by the phase shift, was about to use his staff to physically strike back at the human behind him, he felt an intense feeling of suffocation and a terrifying burning sensation.

Cheng Tian's magic-breaking whip vampire killer has successfully strangled the vampire magician's neck!

Here, Cheng Tian encountered a bug that was not really a bug, that is, even in the phase shift state, his attack could hit the enemy, and the rope twisting action was also considered a valid attack.

Although only the first strangulation meets the weapon's special effect judgment, it is still a full 20 points of holy damage without any attenuation. Using this holy weapon specially designed for vampires to strangle a vampire can only be said to be a lifetime gift for this vampire.

"Axe! Help me block the zombies!"

Afraid that he could not strangle the vampire to death, Cheng Tian used almost enough force to break the whip, and at the same time shouted for help from Yi'er.

"Coming!!!"

Knowing Cheng Tian was calling him, Yizier didn't let the complicated situation get to his head. In terms of friendship, Yizier was of course closer to his roommate, but reason told him that his idiotic roommate, who was currently courting death, was simply unreliable.

So he decisively chose to support Cheng Tian, ​​leaving his stupid roommate to fend for himself.

After a fierce battle with the zombie horde for a while, although Cheng Tian killed them most of the time with minimal physical loss, and Yizi'er only took over occasionally to block, this did not prevent him from observing and summarizing certain rules.

He first leaned over and swept across, using the hammer of his one-handed axe to smash the zombie's knee directly, smashing it to pieces with one blow. When the zombie lost its balance, he stood up and knocked the zombie aside with his shoulder.

Instead of choosing to finish him off, he turned around, quickly rushed forward and jumped towards the zombie that had slapped Cheng Tian and wanted to continue chasing him... The zombie duck gave a crooked knight kick on the back -

You can call it Flying Kick.

You know what, although this flying kick looked a bit ugly, it actually successfully kicked the shriveled zombie duck's torso, and the shriveled and dried-up zombie duck really rolled down the slope.

With so many blueprint copies in the Chosen Space, there must be hexagonal almighty monsters in it, but this definitely does not include the zombies in the Demon Village.

In terms of straight-line speed, the zombies here are already the best among similar monsters, which means that they all have their own weaknesses in other aspects. But this can actually be summed up in one word -

Paper defense.

The paper defense here not only has a health volume of only 10 points, but also has strength far below the normal level of human adult males.

In the Chosen Space, both players and monsters use the four-dimensional graph of "strength, agility, spirit, and charm" to fully digitize their physical attributes. Among them, the strength attribute directly corresponds to physical attack, health limit, self-healing ability, load-bearing ability, resistance to impact and other related data.

Similar settings can be seen in "Warcraft" and "Dota", where health increases as strength increases.

Strength and physique should be complementary physical attributes. Whether it is high strength and low physique, or low strength and high physique, it seems a bit unreasonable.

Since the zombies in Demon Village are driven by magic and their own materials are corpses that have decayed to a certain extent in graves, they are not the kind of lively parkour zombies that can release their muscle shackles after being infected with biochemical viruses or rabies viruses, and whose strength attributes increase instead of decrease. Therefore, strength is actually their weakness.

The reason why he was able to break the alcoholic brother's arm with one blow was entirely because of the osteoporosis caused by the brother's alcoholism, reversing his day and night schedule and not getting any sun exposure, as well as the dark magic in the zombie's body.

Any seemingly dangerous scene task actually has a correct solution, but it requires a high level of courage, knowledge, teamwork, etc.

It is worth mentioning that different units have different health conversion rates.

As ordinary humans on Earth, Cheng Tian and his companions have a strength-to-health conversion ratio of 1:10, so 10 points of strength naturally converts into 100 points of health/HP.

Although the average strength of the zombies in Demon Village is about 5 points, their rotten bodies make the health conversion ratio only a pitiful 1:2, with a maximum HP of only 10 points. No wonder they were blown to pieces by Cheng Tian's whip.

As a "treasure chest monster", the Vampire Magician can teleport, turn into a duck, and has the relevant racial talents of the vampire race. Its strength, agility and spirit are not weak. Just looking at the four-dimensional data, it has already touched the edge of the "boss" unit. However, it is facing Cheng Tian, ​​a guy who treats the treasured holy relic like a bicycle and pedals it to death.

The vampire killer cut the magician's neck slowly but smoothly, just like cutting butter with a hot knife. When the top hat and head rolled to the ground, the magician's headless body completely stopped struggling.

At the same time, the gentleman's cane that the headless corpse still held tightly in his hand was covered with a layer of brilliance that represented "pickupable".

(End of this chapter)