Wang Zhen gave a light stamp, and the ten-meter-wide Philosopher's Stone Transmutation Circle turned into countless thin streams of blood. They burrowed beneath his feet and disappeared.
"Dead River" ability... deactivated!
At the same time, Wang Zhen felt a twinge of inexplicable regret, like having a plate of delicious twice-cooked pork whisked away before he'd even taken a few bites. It was truly... mouthwatering!
Wang Zhen remained unmoved!
With a casual wave, he erased the outfit he'd worn to cosplay Alucard in painstaking detail and changed into a comfortable look: a loose old-man's shirt, baggy shorts, and plastic slippers.
"Ah, much better! This is the outfit for me. Apart from being too tacky, it has no flaws!" Wang Zhen patted his tank top and spoke casually.
Just how much charisma did Alucard have? Was even a cup of blood that tempting?
Wang Zhen found it unbelievable!
Before this, he'd obtained the Silver Pocket Watch, become a State Alchemist, and performed Human Transmutation four times in a row. Aside from a Gate of Truth silently appearing in his consciousness space, none of it had made him feel strange.
But now, just one cup of blood had tempted him again and again!
That was right!
Cosplaying Alucard so meticulously just now had been another temptation!
Of course, Wang Zhen had wanted to have some fun and cosplay Uncle A as a tribute to his idol. But this kind of one-to-one recreation hadn't been his idea at all. It had happened unconsciously while he was cosplaying!
Wang Zhen realized that it might be because his mental strength was weaker than Alucard's, which was why Alucard's blood kept tempting him!
He didn't specialize in mental abilities, but that didn't stop him from knowing a thing or two about their strange and powerful nature.
If he succumbed to Alucard's temptations, he might not only attract Alucard's attention across worlds, but also suffer the serious trouble of having his mind corrupted by him!
"Damn! Killing more than three million 'lives' in the Quantum Realm, then crawling back out of it... Uncle A really did conquer the Quantum Realm!" Wang Zhen cautioned himself to never fall for Alucard's temptations again. Alucard might not be able to break through the universe's dimensional wall, but the mysterious and strange Quantum Realm gave him a much wider field of activity!
Besides, Alucard had none of a powerful person's bearing or a master's composure. He'd done plenty of things that messed with people's heads and left them deeply unsettled!
Wang Zhen had absorbed Alucard's essence blood through "Good Luck" and turned into a vampire, but that didn't mean Uncle A would protect him as tenderly as he did the police girl, Seras!
From now on, he had to keep his distance from Uncle A. Absolutely. Better yet, he shouldn't let Alucard connect him to himself at all!
"Alchemy... It seems there's a lot of potential here. No matter how deeply Alucard is connected to Alchemy, even if he used it to turn himself and his people into vampires and 'lives,' thereby gaining something close to immortality, he was still thoroughly beaten and sealed by First Generation Hellsing. That means Uncle A still has weaknesses!"
"I can't copy everything about Uncle A. Since I have a projection of the Gate of Truth, I should refine the blood inside me that came from him all over again. I can't go around thinking a centuries-old vampire like Uncle A is some kind of pure-hearted saint."
With that thought, Wang Zhen immediately called Selene over and told her to stop working for a moment and come with him to the God Hall. He wanted to continue Human Transmutation, communicate with the Gate of Truth, and get more knowledge out of it!
"Selene, get a cage and bring the leftover materials from before, along with those four Homunculi!" Wang Zhen called to Selene as he reached the door, suddenly turning back.
The God Hall was still empty. Beneath the Main God, Wang Zhen drew another Human Transmutation Circle.
This time, Selene had planned to ask the Main God to restore his missing lower body when he was cut in half. But Wang Zhen stopped her. He waited until only his head remained before asking Selene to exchange for a large amount of blood, then had her place his head in an enormous steel drum filled with it.
Although the Main God wasn't healing him, Wang Zhen's recovery was only half as fast. That was still an astonishing speed, considering he had nothing left but his head!
This Human Transmutation had yielded so much knowledge. It was an incredible haul!
Wang Zhen vaguely guessed that, as a sacrificial ritual for communicating with the Gate of Truth, Human Transmutation worked by having the Gate randomly take a part of the person's body through the Transmutation Circle. In exchange, the person would randomly receive a portion of the knowledge within the Gate.
This process was called equivalent exchange. No matter what the two sides exchanged, as long as the exchange succeeded, they must have been equivalent; otherwise, it wouldn't have worked. So equivalent exchange didn't mean that the things exchanged had to be equal in value!
Wang Zhen guessed that the reason he'd gained so much knowledge from the Gate of Truth this time was that the body below his neck, which he'd already exchanged to the Gate, contained 99 percent of Alucard's essence blood!
Only Alucard had such a deep connection to Alchemy. He might have used a Philosopher's Stone Transmutation Circle to turn himself into a vampire, transmuted his more than three million countrymen into a Philosopher's Stone, and fused them with himself, gaining the ability to live forever.
Because Alucard's state was so bizarre—he had traits of a Homunculus, an Alchemist, and a vampire—his unusual condition also offered the Gate of Truth valuable knowledge.
And so Wang Zhen received a wealth of knowledge from the Gate of Truth!
Then Wang Zhen's head floated strangely above the barrel of blood. The Ouroboros pattern hidden deep in his pupils suddenly appeared, and his left eye, which had fused with the Eye of Truth, changed too. The eye quietly emerged in its place!
At the same time, the blood in the barrel seemed to boil. Countless fine threads of crimson blood rose from it like mist, connecting to the severed stump beneath his head...
The blood then rapidly wove together before his eyes, like a 3D printer, perfectly forming the body Wang Zhen had been missing from the neck down!
"Not bad! Now I can even save on the Main God's healing fees!" Once his feet were back on the ground, Wang Zhen couldn't help feeling very satisfied with his new body!
"Master, please put on your underwear! If you go streaking, you'll be the laughingstock!" Selene said, holding up a pair of underwear.
"Damn! Good thing there's no one else around! I'd never live it down!" Wang Zhen pulled on the pair of lightweight, silky boxer briefs as fast as he could.
They were cool, loose, soft, and practically weightless. So comfortable!
"Although the Gate of Truth took most of the body containing Alucard's essence blood, the great thing about my cheat is that the moment I drink the Alucard essence blood I drew from the mystery box, I'm transformed into a vampire like him. So even though most of my body was exchanged away..."
"But my abilities didn't disappear with the parts I lost. I... am still me!"
"Let's continue Human Transmutation..."
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