Everyone's faces changed. In particular, women's faces have become extremely ugly.

What is it?

Vampires!

"She—why did she do such a cruel thing?" Luo Xu covered his chest in fright, and asked with a white face.

"According to the records of the owner of the Codex, it seems that it was because the Duchess of Bathory believed that drinking and bathing the maiden's blood would keep her young forever." Yang Qianyu explained while showing the notes in his hand in front of everyone.

According to the contents of this journal, the last monarch of the Duchy of Bathory, Duchess Elisabeth Bathory, was also a well-known mage-type warrior at the beginning, and was known as the 'Fiery Elizabeth'.

Warlords are the most blessed beings among the human race, and they rely on refining spiritual energy to transform it into fighting energy or magic power to use it, so as to gain strong power. While gaining strength, they are also nourished and nourished by the spiritual energy they absorb, which changes their bodies and delays aging.

Therefore, the appearance of each fighter is much younger than his actual age.

Of course, this ability to 'rejuvenate' also varies from person to person, and in general, the stronger the person, the longer they can maintain their youthful appearance. And the Saint-Rank powerhouse was able to maintain the appearance of the original Saint-Rank strength until the three-hundred-year-old limit came.

It's a pity that, according to the records of the notes, after Duchess Bathory reached the peak level of a high-ranking warrior at the age of forty, it took more than twenty years to break through the bottleneck of strength and reach the saint rank.

When a warrior has not yet stepped into the holy ranks, he can only delay aging, but he cannot stay young forever. At that time, Duchess Bathory was already sixty years old when she reached the Holy Rank powerhouse, and although she still looked like a dignified beauty in her thirties, she also showed a little old when her appearance was fixed.

In fact, when it comes to details, Duchess Bathory became a saint-level powerhouse in her early sixties, which can be regarded as an outstanding talent. After all, the strength of the warrior is improved the higher it goes, the more difficult it becomes, although it is not impossible for the warrior powerhouse to reach the holy rank around the age of forty in the Ibel world, but those people are all the supreme geniuses in ten thousand, and even then, in the process of advancing to the holy rank, the talent, effort, resources, luck and other internal and external factors required can also be said to be indispensable. It is already rare for Duchess of Bathory to reach the rank of saint at the age of sixty. Compared with her, quite a few of the fighters at this age are in the middle of the middle to the lower level of the high rank, and they can't even reach this level.

However, there is a saying that 'the authorities are obsessed with bystanders', and in the eyes of outsiders, Duchess Bathory can be described as extremely talented, but Duchess Bathory is not satisfied. After all, as a woman, if you don't care about your appearance, it's impossible anyway. Although she had been promoted to the Holy Rank and her appearance remained forever, those few remnants of aging still made her haunted. For a powerful female warrior and the monarch of a principality in charge of several counties, how could Duchess Bartholi turn a blind eye to her own face in the mirror showing signs of aging?

It's just that no matter how much you linger, your appearance can't change back. Unless Duchess Bathory can find the legendary 'Elixir of Rejuvenation', an alchemical potion from the Titan civilization. It's just that this potion has long been buried in history with the disappearance of the Titan civilization, and only a few words recorded in some ancient documents indicate its existence. As for the physical object (whether it is the finished product or the formula), no one has ever found it.

So, Duchess Bathory chose a method that was said to restore her face.

As the monarch of a principality, Duchess Bathory's family treasury naturally has collected many relics of ancient civilizations, including some secret methods that tend to focus on the dark system.

It's easy to confuse 'dark' with 'evil', but that's an absolute fallacy.

It should be noted that in the world of Iber, the division of good and evil is not based on the attribute tendency of the power they hold, and in the four major human city-states, there are also religious organizations such as the 'Shadow Temple' and the 'Church of the Eternal Night' to preach and preach, as well as organizations such as the 'League of Robbers' and the 'Thieves' Guild. Of course, due to the problem of power attribute tendencies, their daily behavior is also mysterious and low-key. The aristocracy, which has absolute power, tends to turn a blind eye to these existences, partly because the nobles are too lazy to pay attention to the existence that does not pose a threat to their rule, and secondly, because these nobles often have some secret and unseemly deeds that need the assistance of these low-key and mysterious forces.

Therefore, as the monarch of a principality, it is not a strange thing to collect some dark secret methods.

It's just that the 'secret method' used by Duchess Bathory to keep her face forever is definitely evil.

Because one of the main materials needed for this secret method is the blood of a young girl.

Fresh, vibrant blood.

The Duchess of Bathory chose the peasant girls in the counties of the Principality at the beginning, because the Principality of Bathory at that time was more than 300 years old, the internal stability of the Principality, as a monarch, the Duke of Bathory treated his people quite well, so many civilian girls were attracted to work in the Castle of Bathory, the main castle of the duke at that time. It's just that these girls who are full of expectations for the future don't know what kind of ending they will face.

In an underground chamber, Duchess Bathory and a group of her henchmen, mostly women who were war officers, used various methods to torture peasant girls who entered the castle to work. She had the maiden bleed, and then used the blood for the ritual, and then bathed or drank the blood of the ritual.

And it wasn't just Duchess Bathory who did it herself, but her henchmen were treated like this.

Perhaps it was the secret method that worked, and Duchess Bathory and her henchmen found that their skin and appearance were slowly beginning to recover. Overjoyed, they became more and more crazy to carry out such sacrifices day after day, and every day in the castle there was an inexplicable disappearance of peasant girls who served as maids.

Later, Duchess Bathory's behavior became more and more serious, and her target gradually shifted to the girls who came to the castle to learn etiquette, most of these girls were the daughters of the lower nobles in the principality, or direct or collateral relatives. These girls were sent by their parents to the castle of Bathory to learn high society etiquette, and by the way, to deepen the bond between their families and the monarch of the principality.

However, these girls from aristocratic families are not as ignorant as peasant girls from commoners. Some alert girls noticed these evil deeds of Duchess Bathory and exposed them in order to protect themselves. After the news broke, there was an uproar in the principality.