“Now that I think about it, why did you even choose to follow me, Lazarus.”

“huh, why ask that question now?”

“No, I thought it was just too strange, even if I did say that I would help you to take your revenge, you were still a king once, and for a king to easily bow under someone else before, I did not think too much about it, I did not want to meddle in someone else life matter too much, but now the one who you are following is me, so I should at least know your reason, the reason why the former king of vampire choose to serve under me?”

“Why did I choose to serve under you? I wonder myself, but there is not any particular reason for that when I was a king, I was supreme, but I was not always a king, you see, in this world, I was the very first vampire, I was born among the humans, but I myself was not a human, even knowing that I tried to live among them, in the beginning, it was not so bad, I had a family, friends, but as the time passed they began to age, I remained the same, everyone I knew passed away, but I kept living, but I was not sad about that, The emptiness left by one was filled by another, I kept living, meeting new people, and simply kept moving on”

“Sounds like you had a good time.”

“Yes, my life was great at that point, but as you know, nothing lasts forever, soon the rumors spread about a man who did not die, then some king captured me to find out why I did not age as eternal youth was the dream of every man, but I resisted, in the process, I first awoken my fangs, when the fangs came so did the thirst for blood, I went on killing after that, but I also discovered with the help of the fangs, I could create more like me.”

“So, I began creating more like me, it was hard at the beginning, people could not accept what they had become at first, but as they began seeing the benefits they started to accept themselves, I turned who I thought was the strongest into vampires, they were the 1st generation vampires, I spread them to make more like us, the kingdom became the birthplace of vampires, all of them were turned into vampires.”

“I became the king of that very kingdom. I stopped the creation of new vampires through the use of fangs. I sealed myself and the vampires within the kingdom with no contact with the outside world. I began to rule. The vampires lived ordinary lives; they could breed like humans, so we spread our numbers by breeding. I had created a kingdom with people like me. I thought I finally had a place I could belong, but, as the number of vampires began to increase, my powers also began to increase. With growing powers also came growing ambitions.”

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“ I thought my kingdom was too small. If I had suppressed my powers any longer, it would have driven me to madness, so I began expanding. I no longer restricted the vampires, I started various war, during the war, the vampires first tasted blood, vampires could survive without any food, but they could still eat human food.

These vampires were sealed inside the kingdom with no humans. They had never tasted blood, but then during the war, they killed and drank, drank and drank. Their instincts began to rise, the power of vampires began to increase, the vampires desired more blood. I desired more power. I desired more battles. So, the war continued. The conflict between the humans and the vampires lasted for centuries.”

“But then I got tired, even the 1st generation vampires got tired of the war, so, we again sealed ourselves within the kingdom, I continued to rule, I ruled for years, but now after living for so many years, desires within me ceased to exist, I got tired of the ruling, dealing with the same problems again and again, tired of fighting, tired of the ruling, even tired of living, I was left as nothing but an empty shell. I wanted to escape this life, but I could not just leave the vampires on their own. As their creator, I felt a sense of responsibility; that was the only thing left within me. But then, like you said, I had a thirst for the one thing I could not obtain, my desire caused the extinction of the 1st generation of vampires.”

“After that, I was completely broken. Unlike the 1st generation, the new generations of vampires were filled with greed, lust, and pride, they could not live within the sealed walls, they were driven by their instincts, unlike the previous generations they still had not experienced enough war.”

“I knew their intentions, but I did not care what they did, I did not care for anything, I was just sitting there in the throne, simply looking back on my life.”

“But the new generations of vampires, they formed an alliance with the high elves and planned to revolt, a war had begun, there were still plenty of vampires left who were tired of war, the battle between the old generation and the new generation was one-sided, the old generation who had fought for centuries won without much effort. But then the high elves intervened”

“The high elves and the old generations vampires were evenly matched, but the high elves had a king guiding them, whereas the king of the vampires was now nothing but an empty shell.”

“The high elves together with their king had managed to overpower the vampires, the elders of the high elves came into the throne room, I was just sitting on the throne senseless, one of them then stabbed my heart, that’s when I came into my senses, I realized what had happened, but by the time I came to my senses it was too late, I could no longer feel any presence of the vampires that supported me. I imagined how they must have felt, when the high elves invaded, when they asked their king for support, even when their king did not answer, even when their king was reduced to such state, they protected their king, they still protected me, they protected me to their last breath.”

“For the first time after many years, I felt Enraged.”