Erzsebet Bathory

* Erzsebet Bathory
* Statue with dagger

**Erzsebet Bathory** was the Vampire Lord. She was one of the fews players in the Tower that obtained the title of "Lord."

In The Tower, there are dozens of classes a player can choose from in order to ensure smooth growth. And those who show the most outstanding qualities amongst all players are given the title of "Lord." Each and every one of them was a master in their domain as well as an absolute being with hundreds of thousands of followers.

Legend has it, that she was the harbinger of death and destruction. She could drain the vitality out of others to strengthen herself, and if allowed to continue, she could even rob others of their skills.

Despite being such a supreme being during her heyday, the artifact number of her Bathory's Vampiric Dagger was shockingly high at 352. This was because the widespread information about the dagger was of its sealed mode. In reality, the dagger was originally a skill but it was degraded into a weapon by Erzsebet Bathory, herself.

## Personality

The Vampire Lord was known as one of the greediest beings of all time. Every person who had spoken with her had been shocked by her greed. She was often compared with the Devil Archduke in terms of their greed.

She was stated to be so greedy that she didn't want to pass her most prized weapon on to others even after her death. So, she sealed off the dagger's real form and ability and left it behind in the world.

However, despite her reputation as a vicious ruler on the same level as the Summer Queen, another side to her was her genuine love and affection for her family. This is revealed where Jeong-woo was surprised at Erzsebet's genuine love for her husband and care for her daughter. Erzsebet herself showed herself to be quite caring and somewhat maternal when she approached him due to her sensing his similarities to her daughter Lana, and was initially hoping that he could be her grandson from her daughter.

Despite being somewhat disappointed that he wasn't, Erzsebet was stated to still be happy to meet him and cherished Jeong-woo as her daughter's student. Her personality during their short meeting was so kind and friendly that Jeong-woo himself could almost not believe the legends of her being a vicious, greedy and violent witch during her time as active Ranker.

Erzsbet herself trusted Jeong-woo enough to share some of her secret with him. This is seen where she willingly shared the location of her Dagger in the Tutorials and its Secret as her [Life Drain] skill to him.

However upon Yeon-woo meeting her, Erzsabet showed her more violent and avaricious side, greatly shocking him and even making his famililars, Shanon, state that she was far more violent, greedy and insane than even their own master.

## History

During the earliest days of the Obelisk even before the existence of the Nine Kings and the Top Ten Clans, Erzsebet was one of the "Lords" that ruled over the Tower and was one of the earliest Rankers within the Tower that became one of its first Rulers.

Erzsebet herself would be born into the ferocious Vampire Race, where she stood out as being its most powerful member and began climbing up its rankers until she became its **Queen**, with her having defeated numerous other contenders to being their race's leaders. With her having stated to have defeated, Vlad Tepes and Gille de Rais, two of vampire races most powerful members that were designated with the title "**Blood King**".

During this time Erzsebet made a name for herself as an exceptionally greedy Ranker and was infamous for her **Life Draining** skill that allowed her to both steal a Opponents lifeforce but also usurp and take their skills for herself.

During her time within the Tower, Erzsebet was one of the numerous High Rankers and Rulers of the Tower to challenge and fight against the Summer Queen and challenged her for her throne as ruler of the Tower. However despite her having the edge with her [Life Drain] Skill, she was non the less defeated by the powerful Dragon. However despite her defeat, the Summer Queen still remembered their battle due to her recognizing her strength as being significant.

Erzsebet was also stated to have worshipped and believed in the Black King and the darkness her represented, and during her time in the Tower, desired to become one of his successors as well. However, despite her immense power, she was never able to become one and gain his powers.

Despite her desiring to become one of his successors however, Erzsebet herself made it clear that she did not consider herself to be his follower.

Erzsebet, like many of the most powerful Rankers and Rulers within the Obelisk, had already reached the necessary level of qualification to obtain exuviation and ascend to godhood. But like all the others, her transformation was impeded by All-For-One interference using the System as she climbed the Tower.

In some point in her past, Erzsebet would purposefully seal away her [Life Drain] Skill into a Dagger and then hide it within a cave within the Tutorials floors of the Obelisk. Legends would arise and state that she had done so due to her exceptionally greedy nature of not wanting her treasured skill to be passed on to another Player upon her death. However Erzsebet herself would later stated that her original intention was to use the skill as bait to draw a large amount of skilled players who were searching for the dagger into one location for her to then kill and collect as her personal blood bank.

Erzsebet would eventually meet and fall in love with Count Ferenc, a man that was not of the Vampire Race and marry him. The couple would then have a single child, a daughter, of whom they named Lana.

Eventually, upon dominating the Tower and becoming supremely powerful to the point that she could single handedly defeat the Top Ten Clans and her power reaching the level where only the Summer Queen could match her, Erzsebet would eventually attempt to challenge the 77th Floor and defeat and overcome All-For-One himself directly. This attempt however was stated to have ended in catastrophic failure and instead ended up with Erzsebet being severely injured instead by the number 1 ranker and barely escaping the 77th floor with her life as she was pursued by All-for-One.

The Top Clans, realizing that Erzsebet was critically injured and weakened, then made their move to kill her. Having successfully lured her into the Tutorials phase of the Obelisk to finish her off while she was weak. And while this attempt failed, Erzsebet herself still faced the threat of All-For-One . During this time, her husband, Count Fernec would then attempt to help her by directly challenging All-For-One to battle in order to distract him from locating and finishing off his wife, a confrontation that ended with his capture and imprisonment by All-For-One.

His disappearance would in turn lead to her to begin searching for him across the Tower, eventually leading her to the Cave of Yaanek, where the Bureau of Floor Guardians kept their prisoners to mine for the Blood Stones. Upon realizing what the cave truly was, Erzsebet saw the opportunity to empower herself and reach Transcendence away from the eyes of All-For-One and search for her husband, Erzsebet allowed herself to be captured by the Bureau and began working in the Mine as she attempted to locate her husband.

During her time in the Cave, Erzsebet herself would successfully disappear from the work force of the cave over the centuries and infiltrate the Bureau of Floor Guardians itself. Using her skill [Mask of the Dead], to alter her physical appearance and conceal her true identity, Erzsebet successfully created a entirely new identity and persona to use to reach her goals. Now going by the name "Ohn", Erzsebet then began working her way up the hierarchy of the Bureau, specifically the Bridgeheads that were in charge of Cave of Yaanek, until she eventually worked her way up to becoming one of Traneck's closest subordinates and becoming his second-in-command.

Due to her disappearance, her enemies had come to the conclusion that she had indeed perished in the Tutorials. However, as stated by Duke Tuan Tien, Erzsebet was so powerful, that even after her "death" many years after, her powers was so immense that it was still widely known and feared all through out the Tower. This is seen where Blood Land is still terrified of her.

During the conference held by the Bureau of Floor Guardians the Top Clan alliance's war against Arthia, Cha Jeong-woo had accidentally stumbled upon her within the bureau's prison where the meeting was being held and revealed her true identity.

Due to Jeong-woo's close relationship with her daughter Lana, Erzsebet initially came to meet him after he stepped out the meeting to get some air after sensing his presence due to believing him to be a descendent of her daughter, having been excited at the prospect of potentially meeting her grandson. Despite being somewhat disappointed at Jeong-woo revealing his relationship with Lana was that of student and master, Erzsebet was still overjoyed to meet him and enjoyed talking with him.

Erzsebet would then reveal some key points to Jeong-woo regarding herself. She mainly revealed to him of her close relationship with her husband and her daughter that somewhat shocked him due to how genuinely loving she was in comparison to the rumors and legends regarding her time as blood thirsty, greedy and destructive Ranker and Ruler of the Tower. Erzsebet would also reveal the location of her Dagger in the Tutorial Area and the secret regarding its true form as her [Life Drain] Skill.

## Abilities

Erzsebet was a Vampire and as such likely possess the default abilities and skill the race possess.

During her time as a Ranker and her reaching one of the pinnacles of power within the Obelisk, Erzsebet was stated to be one of the most powerful Rankers within the Tower's History and reigned as one of his "Kings" and obtained the official title of "Lord" within the Tower's hierarchy. Erzsebet's power was immense enough that she was one of the few individuals that was acknowledged by the Summer Queen as a worthy adversary and one of the few to leave a genuinely strong impression in her mind due to her strength when she fought against her.

Later, its been stated that due to centuries of her having hidden out in the Cave of Yaanak, its been stated that Erzsabet has only likely increased in power during that period of time due to her having successfully regained access to her skills and abilities without needing to use the System of the Obelisk any longer.

Later it would be revealed that Erzsebet herself, that she has already long since exuviated and gained the powers of a Transcendent after spending years away from the eyes of All-For-One.

### Skills

* **Bathory's Vampiric Spirit:** This skill was stated to be the evolved version of [Bathory's Vampiric Dagger] and [Bathory's Vampiric Sword] possessed by Yeon-woo. This skill allows Erzsebet to devour and absorb her victim's souls and physical bodies to further empower herself. Presumably allowing her to steal their skills, powers, physical abilities, stats and everything else they might possess for herself.
	+ **Life Drain:** The Skill that Erzsebet was most known for was her [Life Drain] skill that allowed her to devour and absorb the lifeforce of any opponent she desired to empower or heal herself. This skill also gave her the ability to steal the Skills of her victims for her own use and she had apparently become infamous thanks to her excessive usage of this particular skill.
* **Bathory's Witch Defense:** The evolved version of her original defensive technique [Shield of the Dead], this skill was stated to use the souls of her defeated enemies to create a powerful defensive barrier that shields and hides Erzsabet from even the most powerful of enemies. As seen where it was able to shield and erase both her and Yeon-woo's presence from the various fallen transcendents within the Cave of Yaanak. The Skill was stated to also allow her to locate any being that she was searching for, with it being stated that the greater the being easier it was to find them.

* **Skill Sealing:** Although unknown how, Erzsebet was confirmed to have possess the ability to seal away her skills into a object or item. Later upon it being revealed that she was still alive, this ability was likely the ability for her to seal away a lesser version of her original skill away, this is seen where she had apparently sealed away her [Life Drain] Skill, [Bathory's Vampiric Dagger] as a physical dagger, before leaving it within the Tutorials.
* **Familiar Creation:** As revealed by Duke Tuan Tien of Blood Land, Bathory possessed the ability to create legions upon legions of familiar servants by simply blowing her breath at her desired targets, turning them into her servants. This ability was so monstrous that Erzsabet herself was essentially considered a one-woman army and could easily take on entire clans on her own and that no matter how many of her servants were destroyed, she could easily replenish her forces without delay. As stated by the Duke, her Familiars was stated to be so powerful that a single one was capable of creating a mountain of corpses on their own.
	+ **Morgrim:** A Dire wolf conjured and created by Erzsabet that was stated to have power equivalent to that of a High Ranker.
	+ **Roost:** 'A Giant Bat conjured and created by Erzsabet that was stated to have power equivalent to that of a High Ranker.
* **Mask of the Dead:** One of Erzsabet's signature skills was the ability to use the souls of the dead to create a "mask" that she could wear to hide her identity. This was accomplished by forcing out memories and the identities from dead souls she collected to create a mask and create a alternate identity for herself. Its been stated in legends about her that due to her many enemies, Erzsabet made excessive usage of this skill to hide from them during her time as an active ranker.

### Authority

#### **King of the Demonic Sea**

It would later be revealed that during her time hiding within the Cave of Yaanek, Erzsebet had managed to successfully accomplish exuviation and transcended into a Transcendent Being by battling the endless hordes of beasts within the Demonic Sea and becoming one of its Rulers.

Its been stated that while Nessie is the the ruler of the mid depths of the Demonic Sea, Erzsabet has established herself as the ruler of the demonic sea's sea floor, marking her as being more powerful than Nessie.

* **Divine Territory:** Due to her having gained transcendence, Erzsabet has also gained the ability to set up and create her own divine territory. During her confrontation against Nessie, Erzsabet's territory was shown to be powerful enough to repel and overwrite Nessie's own territory and remove his "Imaginary World" ability. Her territory was stated to transform the sky into the blood red color symbolizing her and a strange type of darkness was said to scatter around within her territory.

## Trivia

* Erzsebet refers and uses the term "we" when referring to herself instead of "I".