Progenitor Vampire: I Have Many Skills!

Chapter 553 Essence of life

553 Essence of life

"Only the different experiences of life make me feel that I am not wasting my time. My mission was lost in the annals of history; I don't want it anymore. My life is lost among monotony and continuous and boring use of my skills; I don't want that life anymore."

"So I decided to look at the world. I wanted to find out what other experiences there were and how much more food there was. And when I decided to do that, I found a vampire lying on the ground, surrounded by corpses of my race."

"Initially, I thought about killing him, but that would be falling back into my foolish mission; I didn't want that. After all, I can't travel back in time to look for that person. And if I did look for him, he would surely kill me, preventing me from continuing to enjoy the fish. That's why I thought: maybe he will like my food."

"So I saved you. I gave you fish, and you liked it, and then I realized I enjoyed it. Watching you eat it was pleasurable because I cooked it; it seemed different. That's a difference in life that I want to enjoy. That's why maybe I'm different. I used to be the same as them, but I didn't want strength, so I started to understand that life should not only be about that. Maybe it's because I've lived a lot, and none of my race has. Or maybe it's because I'm dumb, and they're not."

"But whatever. Wars and supremacy don't do me any good. But everyone is looking for it; why? You ask them, and they only tell you to 'Rule', to... A desire to fill their ego. It's no use to live a million years if you won't be different than everyone else. Rulers, there are millions, and you would only rule over them, and that doesn't make you different because the essence is the same. That bores me; I don't want that either."

After so much talking, a long sigh escaped her mouth. She was venting and hadn't noticed. After a long sigh, she smiled and looked at the dark sky.

"Being different from everyone makes all the difference; the stars are, and each is beautiful in its own way. Understanding life makes a difference; poor people are happier than rich people strive for happiness. They confused the concept."

"That's why I want to enjoy those moments, small and fleeting, but they give meaning to my life. Maybe I'm no different, I just want to enjoy a little more. Or maybe I shouldn't have been a devourer in the first place. Maybe I was born in a different world or a different body... Hehe, I guess no one will ever know. They will only know I once existed when I die; after all, if the Dietrich Greats took a toll on time, how will it not take a toll on me? Then I will give my life meaning."

"I want to be different; I want to enjoy the little things in life and forget about the wars for supremacy."

"Or at least that's all I'd like to say and be able to do, but my race needs me too; abandoning them would make me different, but it would make me a traitorous scum who left them to their mercy. I don't want that either... I guess life is hard."

Her words, though they seemed simple, struck a small chord in Matthew's heart. His mind wandered between new thoughts, past memories, and recent understandings.

All of it is connected to one thing.

The essence of life.

The good exists because the bad is present. You cannot enjoy peace if you do not know chaos. You cannot understand the good if you do not know that the bad exists. Happiness and sadness go hand in hand because if you never had one of them, you don't understand what stage you are in.

You would be in a stage of monotony when you have not seen both good and bad.

"Haha, maybe."

"What if I told you I was the Matthew Dietrich your mind tells you to kill? Would you fulfill your mission? Or would you understand your path?" Matthew's sudden question left Lilith a little confused.

But she answered.

"If you were really Matthew Dietrich, the first thing I would do would be to ask you: What's over there?" As she said this, she pointed toward a slightly obscured region of the sky, which made Matthew frown.

He couldn't understand her question, so he looked at her.

She smiled even wider.

"That's how I know you're not Matthew Dietrich. And if you were, you've weakened greatly, so if you were, I'd wait for you. I would wait for you to return to your most powerful stage. Then I would ask you to fight."

"And already, you wouldn't eat me?"

"Why would I eat you? I told you, I am an exception. Even your abilities are of no interest to me. I don't seek supremacy; I just seek to live life's differences."

Matthew nodded.

"You seem to understand your way."

She shook her head.

"Honestly, I don't understand it. That's why I want to enjoy the differences in life; maybe they'll make me understand it." She looked at the campfire again and put a fish to roast there.

"I also want to eat fish and make it so my race can live in their own world. Then I can travel there and know what is there." Saying this, she raised her half-cooked fish to point to the same region of space before retracting her hand to take a bite of the fish.

Her mouth twitched a little funny as if it tasted bad to her. "This raw taste doesn't make sense. Why do some people say the medium is better? They clearly don't know something well cooked." She grumbled and put the fish back on the fire.

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