Van Helsing was very angry about what the maid said.

But what made him angry was not the difference in treatment, but the fact that he was powerless to refute.

Indeed, Legolas was wearing exquisite silver armor, had a handsome appearance, and a cold temperament. He looked like a knight of justice at first glance.

On the other hand, one of them is a wanted criminal wanted by the whole of Europe, and the other is an unkempt scientist.

Neither of them is the type to dress up. Wearing black leather armor and hooded cloaks, they look like two evil villains who are secretive and sneaky. No wonder people don't dare to approach them.

Looking at Carl beside him, who had a smile on his face and even drank tea with a hint of vulgarity, Van Helsing couldn't help but sigh softly.

At this time, Viken and Anna came in from outside and waved their hands to drive all the maids out.

"How was the conversation?" Anna asked with a chuckle.

Van Helsing's face straightened, and he said, "We have reached a consensus. Legolas will join us in defeating Count Dracula..."

Viken twitched his lips and said with a frown, "Van Helsing, you got it wrong, you were the one who came later!"

"It's all the same." Van Helsing waved his hand nonchalantly, and then said seriously, "In short, we have killed three vampire brides now. Count Dracula will never let us go."

"Instead of staying here and waiting for an attack, why don't we take the initiative? I don't want to sit and wait for death anyway. What about you?"

Viken and Anna looked at each other. Anna sighed and said, "We certainly don't want to sit and wait for death, but we don't know where Dracula is. For more than four hundred years, no one has been able to find his lair."

Van Helsing frowned and said, "Is there really no clue at all?"

Anna shook her head, but Viken looked hesitant, as if he had something to hide.

Legolas knew the plot, so he kept an eye on Viken's expression.

Seeing his hesitation, Legolas finally spoke calmly: "Prince Viken, whether it is me or Van Helsing, we all sincerely want to help you kill Count Dracula. If you know any clues, you'd better tell us everything. Otherwise, even if we are willing, we are unable to help."

“…”

The look on Viken's face grew more hesitant.

Anna frowned when she saw this, and couldn’t help but asked, “Are you really hiding something from me?”

Viken sighed and smiled bitterly, "Anna, my father did tell me some things in private, but these things are just old stories. Even if I tell them out, they won't be of any substantial help."

Van Helsing retorted: "But if you don't tell us, how can we know whether it will help or not?"

Legolas said calmly, "Tell me, maybe we can find some clues."

Anna also advised: "Yes, brother, I am also curious about what secrets father told you..."

Seeing that everyone insisted on him telling the secret, Viken sighed and told everyone the relationship between Count Dracula and the Villeris family with a wry smile.

It turns out that the story back then was not as simple as what was circulated outside. There were some unknown secrets hidden in it. The biggest secret was the relationship between Count Dracula and the Knight Villeris.

"What, Count Dracula is actually the eldest son of the Knight of Valerius?!"

Van Helsing's eyes widened, and Anna looked at Viken in disbelief.

She never imagined that her greatest enemy in her life was actually her ancestor from more than four hundred years ago!

No wonder Viken was so confused and unwilling to tell the truth. It turns out there is such a family scandal...

Viken nodded with a wry smile, and continued with a sigh: "Back then, Count Dracula betrayed his faith in God, signed a contract with the devil, and became an immortal demon that sucked human blood. When our ancestors heard about this, they went to Rome in person and pledged to kill Dracula in exchange for God's forgiveness."

"But even a tiger won't eat its own cubs. As a father, how could I bear to kill my own son with my own hands?"

"Of course, our ancestor, the powerful Knight of Valerius, softened his heart."

"He did not kill Dracula, but banished him to the Frozen Castle through a magical door that he could not return from, and left behind a family motto, until one day in the future, someone in the family had the will to kill their own family, and then went to the Frozen Castle to kill Dracula once and for all."

"Wait!" Van Helsing frowned, "If Dracula was really exiled to a prison from which he could not return, then how did he get out?"

"Of course he flew out!" Viken sighed, "The devil that Dracula signed a contract with gave him a pair of wings. Dracula relied on these wings to escape from the barrier in the sky above the Frozen Castle and return to Dransphenia to take revenge on the Villeris family..."

“…”

Anna stared at Viken in a daze, her body softened and she slumped in her chair, and said in a daze: "So, Dracula's lair, that frozen castle, is actually the prison where our ancestors exiled Dracula?"

Vikenku smiled bitterly and nodded: "That's right."

Anna laughed at herself: "But now, he can enter and exit the Frozen Castle at will, but we, the descendants of Valerius, can't even find a door."

Viken shook his head: "I know where the door is, but I can't open it."

Anna was surprised and asked, "You know?"

Viken whispered, "My father told me."

"Then what are we waiting for?" Van Helsing stood up and said with a smile, "Take us to have a look. Maybe we can find a way to open that door."

Legolas did not say anything, but stood up as well, expressing his attitude with his actions.

Viken sighed and said, "It's not that I look down on you, but the Villeris family has not been able to open that door for more than 400 years. Your hope of opening it in a short time is very slim..."

"However, since we have come to this point, I don't think you will give up unless I take you to see it."

With that, Viken stood up, looked at Legolas and Van Helsing with complicated eyes and said, "Come with me."

Legolas and Van Helsing looked at each other, then started to follow.

Karl was stunned for a moment, and hurriedly caught up: “Wait for me!”

Led by Viken, the group of five walked through the corridor and came to the castle's armory.

Here are placed a large number of silver equipment used for hunting vampires, as well as swords, guns, sticks and full body armor left by successive generations of Velleris.

Anna frowned: “Brother, what did you bring us here for?”

Hearing Anna's question, Viken sighed, said nothing, and just looked at the wall in front of him.

On this wall, there is a huge parchment map, on which the terrain around Transphenia is drawn in an exquisite manner.

All mountains, forests, rivers, lakes, and even towns and docks were marked on the map exactly as they were.

Following Viken's gaze, Anna couldn't help but frowned: "I remember this map. My father would often spend hours studying it, trying to find the way to the frozen castle..."

"He is not looking for the way to the frozen castle." Viken shook his head, "This wall is the way!"

"...What?" Anna couldn't help but look surprised.

Viken sighed and said, "As I just said, this wall is the magical door that cannot be returned. It's just that we have lost the spell and method to open it, so we have been unable to enter."

"So that's how it is..."

Anna finally understood everything.

Legolas patted Van Helsing, who was eating the melon with relish, and then pointed to the lower left corner of the map.

Van Helsing was slightly startled, and looked in the direction where Legolas pointed, and immediately saw the Latin text on the left side of the map and the broken triangle in the lower left corner.

"Huh?" Van Helsing asked curiously, "Why is there a piece missing from this map?"

As Van Helsing spoke, he squatted down and looked curiously at the incomplete part in the lower left corner of the map. The more he looked at it, the more familiar it seemed to him.

Suddenly, Van Helsing's eyes lit up. He immediately stood up and took out a cylinder from his arms. When he unfolded it, it turned out to be a triangular shaped broken scroll.

Van Helsing tore off the broken scroll and attached it to the broken part in the lower left corner of the map, fitting perfectly.

Viken was immediately shocked and couldn't help asking, "How did you get that incomplete map?"

Van Helsing stood up and said with a smile, "This was given to me by the cardinal himself before I left the Vatican. He said it was something left in Rome by the powerful Knight Villeris four hundred years ago."

"I didn't know what this thing was for, but now I know."

“…”

Viken and Anna looked at each other and couldn't help showing excitement.

Van Helsing turned around and called Karl: "Karl, don't you know Latin? Come and read it!"

Carl stepped forward quickly, but before he could start reciting, Legolas beside him suddenly spoke slowly: "In the name of God, open this door..."

As soon as he finished speaking, a faint white light suddenly appeared on the mural map, and all the parchment depicting the mountains and rivers quickly melted away, and in just a few breaths it turned into a silver mirror.

Van Helsing and the Wicken siblings looked at each other and smiled in surprise.

Legolas raised the corner of his mouth and was about to speak when he suddenly noticed that the smiles on Van Helsing and Wicken brothers and sisters were frozen.

No, it was not just their smiles; their movements, expressions, even the dust floating in the air around them and the sunlight shining through the windows were all frozen here like solidified amber.

Everything continues to move as it did in the previous moment, as if the whole world has been paused and no one can escape this freeze.

Except for Legolas, who was radiating silver light.

Wait, silver light?

Legolas lowered his head in a daze, and saw that the mental protection necklace on his chest and the silver bracelet on his wrist were both shining with silver light.

The layers of reinforced mental protection and the space barrier surrounding the body appeared at the same time, and then shattered silently in the tremors.

"What?!"

Legolas' pupils trembled, and then he seemed to realize something and couldn't help turning his head to look out the window.

In the sky outside the window, endless golden light gathered from all directions and condensed into a sacred staircase shining with golden light, extending all the way from the infinitely high sky top to the castle of Villeris.

Then it passed through the window in front of Legolas and stopped one step away from him.

Legolas raised his head in a daze, looking along the golden stairs, and immediately saw rays of sacred golden light shining from behind the clouds. Faintly, he seemed to be able to catch a glimpse of the tip of the iceberg of the sacred white palace.

"That's... heaven?!"