The Countess blinked in confusion.
Once.
Twice.
Her perfect smile began to disappear.
"You... played me?" she whispered.
The thunderstorm in her blade and the disgust in her eyes spoke loud enough. But the cheeky girl still felt the need to add fuel to the fire. "Did you really think I felt respect for you? Have you even taken a look at yourself? You’re not even a pretty vampire noble anymore, just an ugly monster. When I look at you, all I feel is an immense desire to see you suffer."
Beside her, Aria’s words still echoed in the air like arrows fired straight into the Countess’s pride.
"Even when you were given the opportunity to cultivate the strength of your own... You couldn’t be bothered to put in the time."
It hit.
The amicable smile of hers completely disappeared.
And then the Countess erupted.
"I WILL NOT BE LECTURED BY MORTALS!"
The entire chamber shuddered as her voice rose, becoming distorted. It sounded as if several voices spoke at once through her vocal cords.
Her body spasmed, then bent backward unnaturally. In this moment, she looked akin to a marionette whose strings had been yanked.
Veins blackened with putrid corruption bulged beneath her pale skin, and the pulsating item in her chest began beating violently, no longer emitting a steady glow but a thundering drum of grotesque vitality.
Her jaw unhinged.
Literally.
It detached with a loud pop as her maw stretched far beyond anything human, and dark tendrils slithered from within her throat.
[Countess Veylin, The Glutton of Ruin – Level 30]
"You lived for a couple of decades, and you think you have the right to judge me? ME?!"
Her legs split at the knees, unraveling into centipede-like limbs that skittered along the marble floor. From her back, bloated sacs pulsed rhythmically. They were parasitic wombs swollen with blood and filth. They throbbed in anticipation, ready to burst.
"I was suffering long before your forefathers even crawled down from the trees!"
A system prompt chimed inside Kaiden’s mind, only for him. This time around, it was not the systemic interface at work that everyone had access to, but the Demonic Pornstar System making its voice heard.
[Sin Signature Detected: Gluttony]
[The Glutton of Ruin: Countess Veylin]
’My chance came instantly... How lucky,’ he muttered inwardly, remembering back to the third requirement to surpass the bottleneck.
Usually, the first bottleneck wasn’t a challenge that had to be pursued for months on end, having a tendency to be a simpler, faster requirement. Akin to an introductory phase, it was the first real hurdle every single awakened had to overcome, no matter the path they chose to get to this point.
But there was no time to celebrate.
The bloated sacs on Countess Veylin’s back ruptured with a sickening splrrrch, flinging blood and bile across the floor.
The birthing was instant. From within the ruptured flesh, spider-like monstrosities dropped to the ground, each one the size of a small dog. They had bone-jointed legs, bloated midsections, and too many eyes.
But they didn’t stay that size for long.
The moment they touched the floor, their bodies swelled with grotesque chitin snapping into place, limbs elongating with wet bursts. Muscles expanded unnaturally fast beneath the carapace until the things stood twice as tall as a man. Their fangs dripped with venom and viscera alike.
"Consume, my children!" the Countess shrieked from the bottom of her lungs. Her voice was laced with deranged euphoria, finally allowed to let loose after all the boring waiting.
However, much to everyone’s confusion, the spider-beasts didn’t charge at their group.



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