The three men's cultivations were at the 2nd - Samadhi True Fire Late-Stage, 3rd - Karma Fire Late-Stage and 2nd - Samadhi True Fire Early-Stage. Consuming them did almost nothing to his cultivation.
Whereas the two females were at the 2nd - Samadhi True Fire Early-Stage.
A few minutes afterwards he reached the place where his women were, only to notice how Alcina was sitting there calmly cheering the moment she saw him, she knew perfectly well what had happened due to their connection.
"As expected of my Master~ You didn't even take a few hours." As soon as he appeared her shadow rotated and encircled one of the women, devouring her in an instant and feeling how the power washed over her before her body morphed and transformed in the older woman with white robes, 'Qin Yanran'.
Alucard smiled and knew that Catherine had managed to achieve it. The next second her body appeared as she breathed roughly and wanted to jump on his body, only to notice how a woman stood beside him with a black spear mercilessly spearing her head in a bloody gore...
Suddenly she didn't want to hug him...
"H-Husband, I managed to do it" She stuttered, her eyes never leaving the woman... She knew what she had to do but...
Alucard nodded and caressed her cheeks softly and pulled their bodies together before their faces approached and he gave her a peck, "I promise it will be disgusting just the first time." He said softly still trying to seduce her into this as his breath intoxicated her.
She nodded very reluctantly, the time had come...
Alucard moved his hand and pulled the woman's wrist, before placing it right in front of Catherine...
The Queen threw her King a last look before reluctantly picking the woman's wrist, at least he didn't give her a piece of flesh to eat...
Her eyes turned red and she showed her fangs before slowly sinking them in the woman's wrist and started sucking.
!!!
'Disgusting!' she resisted the need to spit out the wrist together with the blood she had sucked! Compared to her husband's blood, it was like rotten milk!
Utterly disgusting!
Alcina who was now using the woman's body, stared at Alcina with a smirk, 'She truly drank, huh?'
Their perspectives of taste were different, she was truly addicted to her master's blood, but having slaughtered myriad men and women, devouring them, she had more or less a real perspective of how blood truly tasted.
But Catherine was different... She had only tasted her Master's blood that was like ambrosia since the begging and hadn't tasted anything else. Even common human's food lost its glamour in comparison.
Now, suddenly drinking this woman's blood, the contrast was so different that it was disgusting! And that despite the fact that this woman's blood was supposed to be better quality than that of a human's.
It was as if she had eaten the sweetest of chocolates all her life, only to suddenly eat plain rice, it would be disgusting!
Still, the Queen kept sucking until she felt something changed in her body... Memories washed her head all of the sudden, an incredible force entered her body and she stopped sucking by instinct... A reddish shadow descended from her body, and mercilessly swallowed the woman's body as if it belonged to her!
...
"Now, 'will' your body change into that or the woman's quickly!" Alucard's sudden shout surprised her and she did as he said, the next second her body had changed to that of the other older woman in red robes, 'Ming Ruoshen'
Alucard sighed in relief, he didn't sense any kind of nature energy, which means the arrays inside the bodies' brains weren't triggered.
He who was currently in 'Huo Tanluo's form embraced Catherine, "You made it~" For some reason, he felt genuinely comforted that she managed to pass through this hurdle.
Saying that the Queen felt 'weird' was an understatement, she felt like her body wasn't her body... First, she felt her context was different, second, there was some energy coursing through her body that she couldn't recognise, and third myriad memories were washing over her body as she was embraced!
Alucard who was embracing her noticed how her body started to become intangible, she was losing control of her omnipresence!
"Suck my blood, quickly!"
Catherine reacted and did as he said, sinking her fangs in his neck and sucking ruthlessly!
'Y-Yes! This is the taste that I love!' She thought inwardly and hugged him tighter, with a lot of possessiveness!
How could that piece of trash be called 'blood'?!
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It took a while for Catherine to regain herself, she reluctantly took her fangs out of his neck as the three 'elders' plus Alucard's two bodies, flew back to Xinjiang.
"If these five elders don't get inside the formation in a period, it will trigger an alarm... And once we get into Huaxia, we will be questioned by Hongmeng, asked why are we abandoning our posts as Xinjiang's seers. We will have to invent some excuse or we could choose to simply wreak havoc upon entrance, what do you say...?" The count asked for their opinion, killing those 'seers' wasn't a smart decision as he expected, but there weren't many options left.
Alcina thought deeply, "The best option might be to simply become incorporeal upon entrance... They will know something is wrong, but they're bound to know anyway as the 'seers' will disappear. As long as we keep the array in our brain's from triggering, everything should be fine Master."
Catherine just nodded, she wasn't used to doing anything like this so, naturally, she doesn't have an opinion to give, it's better for her to try and control her new powers now. Apparently, she was now a cultivator, and her cultivation was that of the 2nd - Samadhi True Fire Early-Stage, whatever that meant... It was even higher than Alcina's as the latter needed to undergo her tribulation.
Alucard nodded as the five bodies floated and placed themselves in the array that instantly recognised their aura fluctuations.
"We have one advantage..." There was one point that they hadn't touched and it was one of the most important keys of this whole journey, as well as the reason why he decided to come here for some 'short' three days, where not much could be done.
According to the elder's memories, the time inside Huaxia was 1:10 compared to the original world, which meant, that one day in the outside world were ten inside Huaxia.
The formation takes three hours to trigger if the bodies of the 'seers' aren't in it.
This means that they have thirty hours inside Huaxia before they noticed something is wrong outside... It should be more than enough to scurry their way inside and get new identities or hide.
"Catherine, can you 'blink'?" Alucard asked as blinking was essential to remain incorporeal.
Catherine smiled wearily, "I can sense fifteen metres around me after gaining this new power but... I can't still do that 'blinking' thingy husband..."
"Then we will wait until you master it. This time I will teach you..." He could only throw the 'teacher' a deadpan as the countess just looked sideways and whistled.
The plan was set, only execution was needed.