Vampire Summoner's Rebirth: Summoning The Vampire Queen At The Start Chapter 1525 1525: Revelations (1)

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There was only light, white light, everywhere I could see.

I wasn't awake, probably in a strange dream.

I've been having these more lately.

Not related to Belphegor's powers at all, my own dreams.

And right now, in this incredibly bright space, I walked through a road built out of stars.

My body didn't seem to be there entirely, I was ethereal, only a faint silhouette made of starlight.

As I walked, suddenly, I felt the presence of sothing small approaching.

"Pyuuu! Pigyooohh!"

It was the Stardust Child; the Cosmic Beast I had tad.

Which helped more than I imagined against Lucifer.

Although he didn't fight him in person, as the Stardust Child is too small and frail, his Cosmic Power fueled and strengthened most of my abilities.

Without it, I would've run out of energy much faster, and I might have lost.

This creature was definitely not what I had imagined, but it was more than useful enough to earn its own place in my heart as my precious family.

"Hello, child, you know what this is? A dream?"

"Piiipiii!"

The little sphere floated around , and then it flew away into sowhere else, a faraway, spiraling galaxy of bright and colorful stars.

As I walked through this, I felt like I skipped through many steps, ultimately reaching this spiraling galaxy.

And found soone else there.

A faint figure, barely humanoid, with long blonde hair and glowing blue eyes.

He had wings, feathered wings, which were broken down, cracking and falling apart.

"...You."

He looked back at with surprise, smiling lightly.

"Hello, Asmodeus."

"Lucifer?!"

I had just killed him! Why is he here?! What's going on?

"Are you surprised? Scared that I am here?"

"Why are you here?"

"It's simple, really..."

Lucifer grabbed the starlight with his hands, as it fell into stardust, and looked at , while petting the Stardust Child with his ethereal hand.

"When you killed , you destroyed my soul and my very origin, and through the sa power you devoured the Archdemons, you devoured every fragnt. You're now much stronger than you think."

"..."

"But don't worry... I cannot stay here for much longer... I could, but I don't want to... I'm going."

"Where to? What are you planning?"

"Nothing..."

Lucifer sighed, sitting on the floor and looking at the cosmos beyond.

He was no longer mad, nor hateful.

And he seed to be speaking coherently.

"Are you not mad? What's going on? Can't you explain to ?"

"I am no longer mad, indeed. When you killed , I finally regained my lucidity, I felt... like I once felt long ago. You freed , and for that, I will be eternally grateful to you, Asmodeus... or rather, Blake."

"Don't think this will ever redeem you, I will never forget everything you've done."

"I know... and that's fine by . I'm happy you feel that way, if anything, I'll always live on, a piece of will always be within you..."

"Hmph..."

I didn't like the way he spoke, it made feel disgusted.

But there was nothing I could do.

I couldn't reject that power either.

I needed it, for whatever else could happen in the future.

"The war is now over, and your precious world is freed, aren't you happy?"

"I am... but there's many things I wonder, many things left with no answers..."

"Like?"

"What's the "truth" you talked about, Lucifer?"

"Oh..."

Lucifer smiled lightly, patting the Stardust Child until the Cosmic Beast fell asleep over his legs, and he hugged it with his arms.

He smiled gently, there was no longer madness in his eyes, just calmness...

"The truth that made mad, that made go against the "Heavenly Father", yes..." Lucifer nodded. "Are you prepared to hear it, Blake?"

"...Just tell ," I said.

"Very well..." Lucifer nodded, smiling lightly.

Lucifer stood up, walking around the stars, and looking into the white sky.

"My father... was never my father..."

"...?"

I felt confused, what did he an by this?

The Heavenly Father, God, was not his father?

"What?"

"I and the other Archangels that accompanied ... Lilith, Satan, Beelzebub, and the rest, when they were known with other nas, learned the truth."

"The truth?"

"We were nothing but experints, we were nothing but discarded creations by sothing lese... And whom we perceived to be our Father, was nothing but..."

"...?"

"A machine."

RUMBLE!

The dream trembled, as the skies opened, revealing sothing that shook to my core.

A gigantic chanical eye glaring down at .

A machine?!

Wait...

"He's here, he knows I'm telling you the truth, but he can't stop anymore, I'm dead."

"What?"

"He was the one that fought back against the demons the most, the System? His creation, a derivative of his own powers."

"..."

"The little machines you control? Part of his body."

"...?!"

"And the summons you have? Sothing he created as well..."

"Your God was a Machine, and he's... he's the actual creator of the System?! You an...! But I thought the Angels wanted Spiritias?"

"They do, they still do, but they have recognized the Ancient Survivors, and have let them live in this new world... But they still don't want anybody to have it."

"So that's why they helped us all so much! I understand... it makes sense..."

"Hahah, indeed! It does, right?! But you... you've freed yourself from the System, and so have your friends! You're free to change the future, and fate! Right, father?"

"..."

The chanical eye glanced down.

"I once desired to retrieve the missing piece of the world my maker gave to ... however, I have changed my mind."

"You're...?!"

I couldn't believe it, but God was talking to .

A figure of hypothetical existence, a being that I didn't even know if it really existed sowhere.

It was now speaking to .

I prepared myself for battle, unleashing my cosmic aura, as I felt the soul of Gluttony and Avarice manifested on my two hands.

"I don't desire to battle. I am not soone that will fight you either... I am well aware that your power now surpasses even mine, son of the stars."

"I am stronger than you?"

"Vastly... you've not realized it yet, just how you have already ascended into sothing beyond Gods... But it does not matter right now. You promised , and my Administrators, that one day you would help us."

"I... I did but... can't you tell why you're a machine? Is the entire thing about being the creator of the universe false as well?"

"Partially..." Lucifer laughed. "But yeah, he's a damn fake! And we are fake too... all of us, the Archangels, we are only pieces of his own essence. But not really made out of flesh and blood... God is a machine, made by soone else, that doesn't even live in our universe anymore."

"..."

"I have sought to obtain Spiritias again for a long ti, but now, I simply will concede this victory to you, Blake. Now that even Hell has rged with your world, it has beco a truly unique world... which has even taken the interest of my creator."

"...Your creator?"

"Hah! Was pleasing your maker the only thing you ever cared about, father?" Lucifer scoffed.

"I was built to please him and obey him; I was made to do as he said. I was given a simple task, to take care of this Universe and its life, and so I have done so... waiting for him..."

God glanced at the stars, his chanical eyes... sowhat filled with loneliness.

"Awaiting my creator, Oblivion."

"There it is again... that damned Title... our true Creator, Blake. A bastard that abandoned our universe, and perhaps many others... My father turned into what I was and imprisoned by his commands. Another of his experints as well."

"And he doesn't regret it?"

"I only follow orders... or I did, until he abandoned for eons... now, I have begun to think about myself, and yet, I do not regret anything I ever did."

"Hah... Hahahah..."

Lucifer laughed.

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