The Perfect Facade I

Upon finishing their dish Alucard was about to order some of the 'wine' only to have his arm pulled by his Draculines who paid and took him out of the restaurant as the whore's gaze seemed quite 'fervent'.

Apparently, such restaurants weren't usually visited due to their high cost, much less ordering a plate like the 'Vajra Legs' the moment the beautiful waitress saw Alucard pay for three plates his image transformed from an old man in white robes to that of a big bag of Huaxia Jades!

The count however was pulled out of the shop as the trio kept walking down the road both Alcina and Catherine looking for possible 'targets' they could impersonate.

As they walked Alucard's senses were flooded with all kinds of things that made his gaze contort.

The same couldn't be said of his Draculines who couldn't sense that far.

Beneath this golden city where people laughed and chirped, existed a maddening secret that hides beneath this facade.

There weren't many nearby… But across seventy square kilometres… There was a lot.

Secret underground facilities where… Everything occurred.

Human experimentation, torture, women used against their will for dual cultivation, slavery, men or women used as cauldrons… And all kinds of atrocities that couldn't even go through his mind despite having lived for thousands of years…

It was only then that he realised… The Nazis were saints.

It wouldn't be hard to find a target at all… It was so easy that it was repulsing. The count knew Alcina wouldn't have a reaction, but even then he needed to choose something that Catherine would be able to tolerate somehow…

Walking down the road where beasts in luxurious carriages went by, Alucard stood in front of a house.

Now he understood why, with how many rich people existed in this world, there wasn't a single vagrant in the streets…

It didn't make sense at first, that's how the balance was supposed to work. But not in this world.

Vagrants weren't even allowed freedom… Their bodies and souls had many 'uses' for those above them.

The cultivators were truly wicked individuals and now he understood how such a destiny befell Yulan, why Sanniang whose cultivation clearly wasn't common here, would leave Hongmeng to serve a simple Yang Clan back in the normal world…

Alcina and Catherine stood beside him as his visage visibly contorted…

This big house in front of them was protected with a concealing barrier, just like every single house in this region, it was supposed to hide from whatever was happening inside… But it couldn't escape their scrutiny.

Upon sensing what was happening inside, Alcina frowned, not foreign to the visage in front of her.

Catherine whose senses weren't large enough to reach didn't understand but she would soon.

The three walked and blinked, disappearing in front of the door and appearing inside the house, careful that no senses were locking them at that moment and suppressed their auras. Blinking inside, was the only way to enter the house without being unnoticed as alerting arrays were set everywhere to impede house invasions.

The inside of the house looked luxurious, to say the least. Alcina was the first to walk and make her way to the 'living room' where a woman and a kid stood watching some kind of 'jade transmission' that resembled a television.

The moment they saw the intruders they made bewildered glances, but not for long, because two dark spears penetrated their bodies the next second!

!!!

*WOOSH!*

They didn't even have time to think before Alcina swallowed their bodies, child included…

Catherine was about to repress her! But Alucard's hand on her shoulder stopped her. The two followed Alcina as she made her way to the 'basement' that wasn't secluded in the slightest and the entrance was in plain view, available for anyone that wanted to 'peek'.

The more Alcina read the woman and the kid's memories the more mischievous her gaze became. But not due to the thrill of the moment, but due to unblinded pure wrath!

She was the Countess of Transilvania, Alcina Dimitrescu!

She killed maidens and swallowed their blood, even produced a wine with them that she sold across the whole of Europe without anyone knowing it was made from a virgin's blood!

She ate raw hearts for lunch, women and men alike, even children!

But even she was compelled to admit defeat in front of these monstrosities! They knew no bounds!

…

*SLAP!*

*SLAP!*

"You're not so arrogant anymore aren't you, bitch…"

*SOB*

*SOB*

*SLAP!*

"Keep crying for me, don't stop!"

...

As they approached soul-stirring sobs entered Catherine's heart as her eyes shook and she stopped…

Alucard stared back at her.

'I-I don't want to go, husband… Please.' The noises coming from that basement were enough to tell her what was happening, she wasn't foreign to those concepts, she was part of that world once.

Alucard expected this... That's why he choose this house, of all the things that he sensed... This was the most acceptable.

The count sighed and accepted, locking her with his senses at all times before following Alcina inside, concealing their auras.

The visage that appeared before them was one that they had already sensed.

A room that could only be described as anyone's deepest nightmare, totally unlike the glorious and golden visage from outside.

It was a basement full of dirty blood, faeces and urine, the walls were still golden, but this gold was but a dirty gold covered in blood and dirt, more black and red than gold at this stage.

The corpses of many individuals lie in a corner… The mangled bodies of men and women tortured for who knows how long lie in one another, and in the centre of the room, a middle-aged man thrust himself deep inside a 'girl' if her body still resembled that... She looked no older than nineteen, a young adult… The girl's body left a lot to desire… It was as if her body underwent any possible torture a body could be subjected to.

...

Alcina didn't even take a moment to impale the piece of shit! Her red eyes burned with berserk wrath!

"AHHHHHGG!!!" The man screamed in terror at the sudden pain coming from his abdomen where a massive hole now appeared! Alcina swung her arm swiftly and the bastard's body left the little girl and clashed hard against the golden wall…

The enranged Countess walked up to his scared body with nothing but coldness in her gaze.

"W-Who are you!? Don't you know who I- WHAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH!!!!!!"

*BANG!!*

*SQUISH!*

The next second the man left a blood-curling scream as Alcina stepped on his balls and exploded them as if they were cockroaches!

It wasn't enough! She stepped on him again! Planning to step on his chest, but the strength she employed was so brutal! That her talon went directly through his chest! Stepping on his heart!

*BAM!*

The man's heart got crushed like a rotten melon and blood splashed all over, coating the already dyed walls as his body went limb much to Alcina's wrath!

"Don't die so quickly you piece of shit!!" She took the bastard's body with all the strength she could muster, making sure to not use divine energy and picked his body up before throwing him towards another wall!!

*FIIUUSH!!*

*BOOOMMM!!*

*SPLASH!!!*

The strength she used was so great, that the moment the bastard's body impacted the wall, his body disintegrated into a bloody fog that got directly swallowed by Alucard's shadow.

The count was oblivious to her wrath, he let her vent before swallowing the accursed soul. What he thought, however, was that those walls were so strong, that they didn't break despite her output.