Chapter 84: This is Compensation for My Commotion (4)
The Age of Legends: it was the era that was first brought up when discussing the origins of the world—a time when everything was imbued with god.
Among them was Dracula, the God of Blood, who took pleasure in toying with humans. Humans were beings who looked like gods but were not gods themselves. Dracula found it entertaining to watch these creatures live modestly with their meager abilities and slowly evolve over time.
Occasionally, when the continent grew saturated with humans, Dracula would manifest and commit massacres. Those moments were the highlight for him. Killing humans, who behaved as though they were grand beings, with just a glance was Dracula’s favorite game.
—The very source of your vitality is mine. No matter how much you transcend, as long as you remain human, you cannot stand against me.
All beings with flesh were subject to Dracula’s whims; if he willed them to die, they had no choice but to perish. For centuries, Dracula repeated the cycle of slaughtering humans, allowing them to recover, and then destroying their civilizations time and time over.
Then, one day, he encountered an amusing human woman who pleaded with him, offering herself as his sacrifice so that he would spare her village. It was unprecedented; it was the first time a human demonstrated the spirit of sacrifice.
Intrigued by this unfamiliar behavior, Dracula granted her request. He made her his first servant and gave her the name, vampire. Thus was born the First Vampire, Elise. Elise descended into the human world and began spreading her lineage. To protect humans from Dracula, she instilled in them the ideals of submission, sacrifice, and subservience. She sought to save the many by sacrificing the few.
Dracula approved of the system Elise had created. Thanks to her efforts, humanity could avoid Dracula’s wrath with minimal sacrifices... Until a thousand years later.
By then, countless vampires had arisen, descendants of Elise. However, Elise’s ideals of protecting humanity had been corrupted, and vampires began to dominate humans instead, treating them as livestock. Dracula no longer needed to intervene; the vampires themselves controlled and oppressed humanity. This tyranny was not unique to Dracula. Other gods committed similar, if not worse, atrocities.
Eventually, a war that changed history broke out: Ragnarok. The gods who cherished humanity declared war against those who oppressed them. Though the war seemed reckless, humanity emerged victorious. Countless gods were either destroyed or sealed away, branded as evil beings.
Dracula was no exception. To his disgrace, he was defeated not by a divine being but by a human: Titan, a transcendent who had replaced their hot blood and human body with cold coolant and a war machine. Thus, Dracula was shattered into six fragments and sealed. One of those fragments now lay before Keter, sealed in the form of the Blood Sword.
