Progenitor Vampire: I Have Many Skills!

556  That Era... That Link... That Infinity.

Matthew finally looked up to see his father.

"Isn't it the same for you, Father?" he asked.

"I'm already on my way out, my son. But you're coming in. With immortality, I could live forever, but then the vampire world would only be Clan Dietrich."

"Wouldn't that be a good thing?"

He shook his head with a nostalgic smile.

"When I learned that I was the progenitor of a non-existent race, I always wanted to see what it could become; I wanted my race to have different clans and different people. That's why I created them patiently and with variety. Now I'm here and have to step up and fight for my creations. So I will go out, allow them to live, and let them be free. If I die, you are still there to inherit my position. If I don't die, I will return and enjoy the race I created. Our situations are not the same."

Matthew understood what his father wanted to tell him, so he didn't question it.

His father loved his family more than the world, but this time, he had decided to fulfill his mission. Perhaps he realized that the race was not just his family, or perhaps it was because he saw another kind of hope.

"I understand you, father. But she is also my creation. Maybe I'm more selfish than you, father. I don't want to give my life for the race, but I can do it for her. She is my little treasure; that's why she is my beautiful little first creation." He was firm in his response.

"So it doesn't matter. If when I come back, Dad and the rest of them aren't alive, then why would I want to live forever? I'll fulfill my mission and let the course of life follow its rhythm. But she has the right to live because they didn't want to let her go before. I'll let her enjoy 10 million years, 100 million years... As many as it takes. Because she deserves it."

The Great Dietrich stared at his son. In a moment, he felt he had learned a few things.

'Being selfish, eh...' He smiled.

Noticing how determined his son was, he decided not to insist any further and looked around.

"Why did you choose this mountain range? This will be the south in a few years' time."

"My ability will have an impact here. When it meets my immortal energy, an enormous ice wasteland will be created, a good place for it to live and live again. Her immortality will have to reset itself a few times, so I'm sure my will over my ability will help her process it. I'm just worried about what might happen when she resets for the last time. The frozen wasteland could disappear for a while and that would be dangerous for her, but there's nothing we can do. We're not gods; we can't control everything.

His father nodded.

"We don't need to be conformists, but there are things we simply can't do. You've learned that well."

After all that talk, they both set about sorting everything out.

First, the two mementos he would leave for his wife: a pendant and a ring.

Second, the trees and their connection.

Third, the land.

As all this was happening in the past, Matthew was left in shock in the present tense. He looked straight ahead and upwards. It was as if he could see the silhouettes of his father and himself moving through the trees, making everything right.

He could understand, describe, and even match every movement.

Because those were his movements in the past.

The movements of someone who no longer longed for immortality and who was only looking for his wife's happiness.

Now he understands.

Isla is here because of him.

Originally, she did not have immortality, just absurd regeneration at the level Matthew has now.

The day she was hurt and almost died, he made a decision. He was going to protect his first creation and give her her longing.

That's why it's the other way around now. Matthew took his wife's super healing for himself and gave her immortality.

He gave her more than immortality; he also sacrificed his immortal energy, which gave him his power, so that he could protect her and allow her to be the hope of the Dietrichs.

That's why...

10 million years ago, Matthew stared at his beloved Isabella.

"My little treasure, on your last reset, I believe you will be influential enough in energy to wake me from my infinite lethargy. You are the last hope of our Dietrich Clan, of the World of Vampires. I desire your longevity; that is why I sealed my immortal energy in you; now it is yours. I hope that destiny allows us to meet once more when I return to this world."

After those few words, Matthew of that time walked away, leaving his beloved wife in a warm place that, in a few years, would become a frozen wasteland.

The Matthew of the present finally understood why Isla had met him as soon as he had appeared.

It was her immortal energy orbiting towards him. Although perhaps it no longer recognized him as worthy of it, it knew the whole background behind why it was now in another body.

Naturally, this was also what linked Isla to the past, to the Dietrich Era.

She was the Link for a reason: To wake Matthew.

He was the one who unleashed an absurd ability capable of lasting forever. That ability cannot be broken. Now Matthew remembered correctly.

His Frozen Infinity is the anchor of the world. As long as that ability exists, it can never be destroyed. Everything will stay in place and never be disordered because all the disorders that not having the sun and orbiting something else can cause are absorbed by something infinite.

Now, this is where the existence and importance of the Missing Link comes in.

Matthew was frozen in an infinite place; he could not wake up on his own.

But, if there were something 'powerful' enough to affect something 'infinite', then it would be another infinite thing.

Immortality.

Eternity.

The Missing Link was the pure and simple representation of these two concepts, therefore the only thing capable of affecting Matthew's Frozen Infinity.

That's why Isla, Isabella Dietrich was...

"Our Link. The one that unites the Ages."

"…The Dietrich Era has returned."