It's a Game Master! We're Saved!

[Game Master: S-Rank Talent / Lv-, Talent Skills, Active Skills. This is the materialized product of your personal talent as a Game Master who has experienced countless games.

Every time you enter a brand new dungeon, the palace of thoughts constructed in the depths of your mind from vast amounts of video game-related memories will enter an automatic retrieval state, and based on the current situation, it will randomly select a relatively suitable game character and temporarily load it onto you in the form of different "Character Templates" to assist you in clearing the dungeon.

"Character Templates" are like character states (BUFFs) that cannot be dispelled. You can actively load or unload them according to your needs. Both loading and unloading actions have a cooldown period. Under normal circumstances, Character Templates can perfectly overlap with the player's current state.

Character Templates can be divided into three major categories and three derivative forms--

"Protagonist Template," "Supporting Character Template," "Villain Template"; "Original Type," "Reinforced Type," "Perfect Type."

Protagonist Template: The core C-position of the game's blueprint, the absolute protagonist.

Supporting Character Template: Teammates of the protagonist's faction, story NPCs, neutral units, etc.

Villain Template: Grunts, elites, BOSSes, etc., of the enemy faction.

Original Type: Highly restores the character's original setting, gaining corresponding combat power while also inheriting corresponding weaknesses.

Reinforced Type: Gains corresponding combat power but discards the original setting's weaknesses.

Perfect Type: Strengthens in all aspects while eliminating the original setting's weaknesses.

Based on your current physical condition, dungeon difficulty, and capacity limit, the Game Master will automatically adapt suitable templates and forms for you.

The "Game Master" effect can only be triggered once per dungeon blueprint. When entering a new dungeon blueprint, you can only use the new character template corresponding to that dungeon, and the character template cannot be used in areas outside of its corresponding dungeon.

When you are in a loaded Character Template state and clear the current dungeon by achieving certain specific conditions or receiving a high mission completion rating, some abilities/characteristics of the temporary Character Template will be permanently retained in the form of "Additional Skills," "Special Equipment," or "Carried Accessories," which can then be used normally in other areas.]

[Additional Evaluation: This is great! It's the Game Master! We're saved!]

Just as One-Ear left and the entire Demon World Village officially began spawning monsters, Cheng Tian's "Game Master" talent effect was also formally triggered.

And among the vast pool of selectable templates, the Game Master chose this Vampire Hunter, who is irreconcilable with evil and has had a generations-long feud with the Vampire Count.

The whip in Cheng Tian's hand, named "Vampire Killer," is a holy artifact of the Belmont Family used for exorcism.

Cheng Tian, of course, didn't know how to wield such a weapon, which could already be classified as a surprise weapon. However, the moment he gripped the handle of the long whip, his body automatically provided the answer.

Cheng Tian, who would have easily whipped himself even if he were just swinging a belt, perfectly cracked his first whip, severing the neck of a zombie that was pouncing on One-Ear in a single strike.

If one were to observe the zombie's severed neck at this moment, they would find traces resembling severe burns.

And this was the Holy Power attached to the Vampire Killer whip!

Not only that, but starting from the severed neck, the Holy Power rapidly spread across the zombie's remains, and within a few breaths, the zombie had turned to ash.

When Cheng Tian whipped and exploded a Red-Eyed Crow with a backward swing and shifted his gaze back, he saw a small, floating red heart above the chest of One-Ear, who was covered in zombie ashes, gently falling.

Both the whip in his hand and this falling red heart were directly related to the "Vampire Hunter" template he had currently loaded.

[Vampire Hunter: Original Type Protagonist Template. The blueprint for this template is the first protagonist of Castlevania, "Simon Belmont." The earliest member of the Belmont Family to appear in players' sight, he is skilled in using the family's inherited demon-exterminating holy artifact, "Vampire Killer," and has dedicated his life to eliminating evil forces led by "Vampire Count Dracula."

When you choose to load the "Vampire Hunter" template--

You will simultaneously obtain the template's exclusive armament, "Demon-Breaking Whip Vampire Killer."

You will simultaneously obtain the template's exclusive skills: "Soul Salvation," "Relic Domination," "Damage Dodge," "Dissolve Upon Entering Water."

Loading and unloading this character template have a 15-minute cooldown period.]

[Demon-Breaking Whip Vampire Killer: Long Whip, Template Armament. Equipment Requirement: Vampire Hunter / Belmont Family Bloodline. Weapon Damage: 1-1. Durability: -/-.

A holy artifact of the Belmont Family with potential for further enhancement.

When attacking targets that are evil creatures and dark creatures, each effective attack will deal an additional 10 points of Holy Damage.

When attacking a "Vampire," the added Holy Damage is doubled, and any healing abilities used by the attacked target will be reduced by 50% for 5 seconds. Effective attacks can refresh the duration.

Template armaments can overlap with the effects of the player's current equipment, and the closer the equipment type, the better the stacking effect.]

[Soul Salvation: Template Skill, Passive Skill. While the Vampire Hunter eliminates monsters, they also purify the influence of evil and dark magic, thereby saving innocent souls. These innocent souls, in turn, will offer help to the Vampire Hunter.

When you kill any evil or dark monsters, or destroy candelabras and torches, there is a high probability of dropping 1 "Innocent Soul (Small, 1 point)" or "Innocent Soul (Large, 5 points)" in the shape of a heart.

"Innocent Souls" can replenish the remaining quantity of consumed thrown items, can be used as material for casting certain spells, and can substitute MP as a casting cost.]

Zombies themselves are naturally evil, but they are all resurrected by the evil demonic power of the Demon King. In their lives, most of them were just ordinary people who didn't need to distinguish between good and bad.

The entire Belmont family indeed has an attitude of killing almost all monsters without mercy, but this does not prevent them from purifying monsters and attempting to save innocent souls.

And the souls that are saved will generally choose to help the Vampire Hunter in their own way. From another perspective, these souls are also seeking revenge.

By assisting Simon and the others in killing monsters, these innocent souls can then ascend to heaven in peace.

Only death is the sole salvation for evil monsters!

Cheng Tian strode forward rapidly. The gust of wind swept past One-Ear, blowing away the zombie ashes on him while also carrying away his own Innocent Souls.

To the side of Cheng Tian's personal HP and MP bars, a "01" indicator representing the storage points of Innocent Souls directly appeared.

One-Ear was still shaken, but the strong tug on his wrist pulled him directly off the ground.

"Are you dead?"

Hearing this question, One-Ear instinctively shook his head. The stinging pain from his missing ear made his body tremble involuntarily.

"If you're not dead, then keep swinging. Killing one is breaking even, killing two is pure profit."

The plain-looking one-handed axe that had already fallen to the ground was stuffed back into One-Ear's hand.

After doing this, Cheng Tian twisted his hip and swung, and the explosive sound of the whip rang out once more.

One-Ear's expression quickly shifted from bewilderment and panic to realization and rage. Then, from the back of Cheng Tian's head came One-Ear's heartfelt roar, along with the sound of him hacking at zombies like chopping ribs with a cleaver and axe.