Chapter 267: Falling Star
|It felt like half a multiverse collapsing on you, didn’t it? |
|...
Guhh!
I haven’t had...half a multiverse fall on me before, so I would not know. |
Lucifer coughed out blood as he replied to the voice of the being who was responsible for his current state.
|True, even I have only been in that situation once.
’She’ was quite pissed off that day so she tossed the entirety of the first multiverse at me. It would have been a disaster for its inhabitants if I didn’t make sure it maintained its integrity despite all that. |
The Devil King let out a depreciating laugh upon hearing that being’s words, with his one still good eye fluttering open to watch as ambient cosmic energy consolidated into a humanoid figure whose face appeared to be covered by a distorted mass of grey light.
|Apologies Lucifer.
I personally like you, but I happen to owe a certain old brat a favour. My hands are tied. |
|...I figured. |
The man shrugged his shoulders upon hearing the Devil King’s reply, before sighing and raising his left hand.
|At the very least, I would let you spend your last moments with your children. Both the real one and the adopted one. |
The space around Lucifer’s body began to distort, but a loud voice booming with cosmic energy rang out, releasing waves of power that forcefully calmed the distorting space.
|What are you doing?!|
The humanoid being that was about to send Lucifer through space winced as if his ears were hurt, before looking to another side and shouting.
|Shut the fuck up already. He’s gonna die anyway! |
After saying his piece, he waved his hand and Lucifer’s body disappeared through a spatial distortion, sighing once more before shouting back at the other being.
|There’s nothing he can do in that state so stop being so annoying and go back to NNl^J&u.|
He received no reply after his second statement, but he knew that the other party had gone to check on where he had sent Lucifer.
It was then that those who were watching this noticed something strange...
"Wait.... You’re not here anymore! How can we still see what was happening if you weren’t there to see it?!"
Arthur voiced out the question, and as if in response to it, the face of the being that was covered by grey light turned towards them, as if he was looking right at the Vaughn family watching the ’memory’ as he spoke.
|Do not peek too much, children of the future. Or even I would not be able to prevent ’him’ from noticing. |
Those words sent chills down the spines of all those present, even Lucifer’s Vestige was no less shocked than the others as he definitely did not expect this to happen.
However, a wry smile formed on his face as he watched the scene change to that of when his ’original’ appeared in front of the young Diablo to pass on the remaining still intact energy core.
His descendants did not need to be told, but he still said it either way.
"That was the Avatar of the Eternal of Space, and the other voice was that of the Eternal of Knowledge."
Two of the most powerful beings in the cosmos were shown to have hands in Lucifer’s death, and the fact that the Eternal of space was capable of perceiving their gaze even though they were watching a mere memory, spoke of a whole new kind of cosmic awareness that these beings possessed.
Returning to the video, it showed Lucifer appearing in the domain they currently were in, landing somewhere close to the throne room where he stabbed his trusted weapon, Lostvayne into the ground and used it to prop his body up, failing repeatedly and finally allowing himself to fall to the ground weakly.
Suddenly a rumbling sound was heard as the whole domain trembled, followed by a familiar true voice screaming out Lucifer’s name.
|LUCIFER! WHERE ARE YOU?!|
"Oh, yeah. He did say the adopted one, didn’t he?"
The dying Devil King muttered to himself right before the throne room’s doors burst open to reveal the appearance of a younger Alexia who stared at him in shock for a moment, blitzing towards him and rousing her energies.
"What the hell is this?! Just what happened to you?!"
As she spoke, she activated her authority of time to rewind his wounds, however, she was shocked to see that her authority did nothing to it.
Her brow twitched in annoyance as she gathered the ambient cosmic energy and activated the unique ability that made the watchers chase after her in a bid to make her a Candidate.
|The Ruler of Time commands you: Rew-!|
Her command was cut short when the same person she was trying to help, grabbed her hand and shook his head silently.
"Stop. It’s pointless."
"...Pointless? What do you mean it’s pointless? You’re dying Lucifer!
Just sit back and let me help you."
She prevented the tears that threatened to spill from her eyes with sheer force of will, before making another attempt to activate her skill but Lucifer stopped her once more.
"Stop it, Alexia.
It’s pointless...and you know it."
He stared at her as blood seeped out of his remaining good eye, looking at the crying face of his adopted daughter through his clouded vision.
It was then that a third person entered the room, a man who all of who were watching were very familiar with.
"...Uncle Bel?"
Cattleya’s mutter identified the new entrant, the Ancient breed Devil and holder of the Authority of Sloth, Grand Duke Belphegor.
In his hand was a communication medallion, projecting the figure of a red-haired woman’s upper body.
"Lady Quinn...we were too late."
[.... I can see that, Belphegor.]
The woman was the Progenitor of the Devil Race, Quinn Rhodes Gill, and her face that usually had an amused smile spread out on it was currently frowning deeply.
Flames of rage could be seen in her eyes as only heaven knows how much she held herself from flipping out.
[That damned bastard Akasha!]
Her anger filled bellow echoed out as she understood exactly what was currently happening to Lucifer, with the space around the projection distorting as though it felt the force of her rage. (It actually did).
[If I don’t kill that damn bastard today-!]
"Lady Quinn...Don’t."
[...Don’t? Are you crazy Lucifer? Do you not understand what is currently happening?! And you want me to sit still?!]
