"Interesting," Alucard concludes. Then has the good sense to add on, "Breaking this would be a terrible idea anyway. I am sure that whoever put this in place will return and have a sense that someone has been in their domain."

A spell like that requires a skilled caster, and Alucard has no desire to meet them. Anyone clinging so fiercely to dragons like this is someone he has zero desire to deal with in the first place.

He would consider it a small wonder that he's getting along with Strange at all right now, but there's something about the ponderance of theory involved that eases everything else along.

"Possibly. But you'd need a very different way of accessing the skeleton."