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Chapter 968: Meeting Bestellen's Soul
Chapter 968: Meeting Bestellen's Soul
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It was the White Dragon himself! Why is he here?! Didn't he died? Was his soul absorbed by my Spirit Realm? I am fairly sure I fell unconscious before I could do much.
"You're probably wondering how I got here. I am also wondering the same thing." Bestellen sighed. "However, I think I figured out. When you defeated me, your weapon ate most of my soul away. It seems to be separate from the Soul Flame though. Your weapon, however, was unable to absorb the soul itself, and it ended sending it back to you.
And… here I am."
"You want to take revenge on me?" I asked, readying myself to fight. "I think I can summon most of my Vampire Spirits here too… Do you want to go?"
"Hmph, I have no intention on fighting you, so spare me your tasteless threats." He prideful crossed his arms. "My soul is strong even after my death, I possess a Divine Soul after all, even though my Divine Body died, with my soul, it could even be possible for me to eventually revive with a new body… Something the others were, unfortunately unable to do."
"What? The others?" I asked.
"You saw them, didn't you? When you absorb a Divinity, you can see the memories of the previous owner." He already knew that too. "The people that died in the war, everything… Their souls, even if Divine, were shattered by their powerful weapons, and absorbed as resources.
They called us "parasites of heaven" and called us all as "resources that should go back to where they belong"… Even now, it fills me with hatred when I remember them…"
To think I would be having a conversation with someone I killed right away. It felt slightly wrong, but at the same time, it also made sense. His soul was truly powerful, but I feel there was something else aside from that.
And about what he said… I suppose that aligns with my theory.
"I suppose you don't know everything else…" I sighed. "Those angels most likely want the entirety of Spiritias, including all living forms born from it. For a rather simple reason. Spiritias… Is most likely a lost Fragment of Heaven, perhaps the biggest one that Heaven has ever lost."
"F-Fragment of Heaven? You mean the realm those winged insects came from?!" Bestellen gasped.
"Yeah…" I sighed. "You see, I am not a normal human, my soul was from someone outside this world, I used to be known as Asmodeus, a Vampire Emperor that warred a war against the demons and was killed when I fought Lucifer, I reincarnated here by his own whim, and since then, I've been surviving and growing stronger to defeat him.
I know about angels and their realms; I've fought them a few times in my previous life."
"S-Such a thing… I knew you were not a normal human at all! Hahah… Now it makes sense! Those powers you showed that blood energy and that transformation!" He said. "You rely on powers not from this world, don't you?"
"It is a mix, I regain my former strength, but I am also adapting and growing with the ones of this world." I explained. "Nonetheless, that is not important right now. You know that there was a war between the Demons and the Angels in the past?
The very reason why hell was created was because God wanted to punish the traitorous fallen angels, which later became the Archdemons and their leader, Lucifer."
"W-What…?! Such a thing… So the demons of now and the angels of the past have been interconnected this entire time?!" He asked.
"More than you imagine. That war left behind Fragments of Heaven as the traitorous Angels managed to create great destruction before being stopped." I explained. "Every angel I met has been searching for such fragments scattered through the universe. I thought they had already secured them all. But the largest of them was still not in their hands yet.
One so big it has become its own, incredibly powerful world, Spiritias."
This would also explain the difference between levels of powers of this world and the outside universe, and how it is so easy to grow so powerful through this world's growth and abilities. It is because we are literally living in a piece of heaven, the strongest, richest, highest, and mightiest realm ever created.
The purity of the essence of creation is of the highest quality, which then became this world's "Spiritual Energy"!
Compared to the outside universe, at the level I am, I've already surpassed the strength of my past self, at least in terms of raw power, although in abilities, I am still lacking.
"So those are the origins…" Bestellen muttered. "You… You are truly a wise man, how old… How old were you?"
"I can't completely recall the exact age, but at least a couple ten thousand years old." I answered. "I spent the majority of the later years cultivating and meditating to prepare for the last battle though."
"You are old, not as old as I am, but indeed, old enough to receive my respect." He smiled. "You also defeated me, a feat nobody had achieved before, not even the other Ancient Gods could bring me to the amount of pain and suffering I went through against you. You are as strong as you're cunning. But I respect that too, that strength, it is different, yes, but it is strength nonetheless."
"I suppose I should thank you for that." I laughed. "Thank you… Now, what do you think about getting a second chance? Your madness seems to have been cleansed once you died, how about you fight for the world you wanted to protect once more?"
"What… do you mean?" Bestellen wondered.
"I mean what I said." I spoke. "You know very well I am a Summoner. You saw what I could do with Skadi, and you are no exception. Divinity, is it possible to bind Bestellen's Divine Soul into the Grimoire to turn him into a Familiar?"
"It… might be possible, yes." Nodded Divinity. "But we might first need his cooperation for the binding process! It can't be forced upon him."
"So, what do you say?" I asked him. "Make up for your sins and save the world with me."
"You…"
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