It was eight years before the adventures of Reinhardt Schneider and Carrie Fernandez: Dracula's dark army and his wicked worshippers were preparing for his return, led in the interim by their representative council, the trio of Death, Actrise and Gilles De Rais. This sign was all too clear when the dark forces began to tear through the countryside and ravage towns and villages as they always had. When Cornell arrived home after a long period of severe ascetic training, he found his village in ruins, a complete mess of fire and destruction; more disconcerting to Cornell is that several town women, including his sister, Ada, had been kidnapped, he'd learn, by his supposed friend Ortega, who looked to deliver the women to Death as a sacrifice and as the means for Count Dracula's return.

Cornell, the man-beast, became incensed, determined to rescue his sister and the other unfortunate victims. Cornell's were superhuman abilities: As a man-beast, Cornell was primarily a human being, but as unique specimen, he had the ability to break the ancient man-beast seal and at will assume a vicious werewolf form, a form evil had always feared. Because Cornell was the only man-beast in their order's history to have this ability, Ortega became jealous and eventually hateful of his friend, especially after Cornell by utilizing this ability proved his superiority amongst the man-beasts in a "friendly" battle; Ortega's undesirable feelings were the impetus behind his kidnapping of Ada. Cornell, through his years of training, was more than prepared for the trials that lurked ahead.

He scoured the land in and around Castlevania; saved the Oldrey family's lineage by rescuing their son and future hero, Henry; and defeated Ortega, who in defeat found peace. Thereafter, he destroyed Dracula's servant, the Count's keeper, and prevented it from absorbing Ada as a sacrifice; he did this by projecting outward his wolf form, sacrificing it in her place. While Cornell was successful in his bid to save Ada and return to a life of normalcy, he through his sacrifice unwittingly contributed to what was Death and Dracula's plan all along.

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