[There's no reason for a defense. The owner is long dead, and this place so very abandoned. Dust has settled on the interior. Four centuries worth, and as Alucard walks in, the pathway he makes is reflected in that dust.

Leon's journals, the ones here, they were the only guide to go on. Trevor's their strategist, which means everything in those journals has been commited to memory. (They'll be brought to the Hold when all is said and done, to rejoin their siblings. No silver bindings though.)]

Ahead, just to your left.

[There's no windows here. It's the castle of a vampire, why should there be? Alucard moves in that direction, aware his superior eyesight is key here.]

Something down there is probably long dead. We should confirm that, or else destroy what still lives.