Your mission begins with a brief message: "It is 1830... at an old Austrian castle. From the worshippers of chaos, rise the plea for the return of darkness." A full view of the castle is then shown, beckoning another battle between good and evil.

     

     

     

Inside the castle, Camilla, a longtime friend and minion of the Count, completes an incantation that raises Dracula from his slumber. Though risen, he has yet to regain his full power.

     

     

     

     

And to try to make sure he doesn't regain that power, Morris Baldwin and his two students, Nathan Graves and Hugh Baldwin, and crash the party. Dracula recognizes Morris as one of the men who had killed him ten years before, and he laughs off the vampire hunters' attempts to avert his resurrection this time.

     

     

With a wave of his hand, he sends a exploding bat to blow open a hole in the ground, sending Nathan and Hugh plummeting to the caverns below. With them gone, Dracula takes Morris as his prisoner. Meanwhile, Nathan and Hugh regroup.

     

     

     

Having reached the bottom of the abyss, Nathan suggests that the two stick together, but Hugh--still jealous that his father picked Nathan as successor to receive the mystic whip and its prowess rather than his own son--looks down on his former friend and pushes him aside; telling Nathan that he'll just "get in the way," Hugh leaves him behind and heads out on his own. The mission then begins.

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