What Happened?

Lucifer began telling them what happened to him inside his room from the moment he began screaming in pain, up until the moment when he 'saw' them again.

...

A couple of minutes ago inside Lucifer's room, he was howling in excruciating pain while clutching at his head. It felt like he was slowly being ripped apart, piece by piece.

With the pain time seemed to slow down, seconds became minutes, minutes became hours, hours - days, and a day felt like a year.

It was awful that he could just keep lying there and not even be able to do anything to retaliate or change his situation, only one thought kept occupying his mind, 'Am I going to die today?'

Fortunately, the pain only really lasted for a minute before disappearing and with it so did his screams. He opened his eyes and glanced around him and saw that the area around him was pitch black, but the area he was standing on had a light that illuminated the area and was ten metres in diameter with some strange red dirt beneath his feet.

He was puzzled, 'How did I get here... but more importantly is where even am I?' Even though he was confused he still scanned his surroundings while on his guard, though when he looked at the darkness he kept seeing these strange black particles floating about in the pitch-black area, outside the light.

It wasn't just any particles since he also panicked when he saw them, the same way Peter did, and he couldn't help but wonder why they were here of all places. his train of thought was interrupted when a smooth angelic voice echoed above him.

"Lucifer..."

Lucifer shocked, but still on guard, peered up at the voice and saw an ethereal handsome man, who was about one million times more good looking then Lucifer with golden light itself, radiating from him. The man had deep blue eyes, sharp golden eyebrows sitting above it, paired with beautiful golden hair, eyebrows, eyelashes and the six golden wings behind his back. The man continued speaking to Lucifer with a gentle smile.

"..., my little brother, I understand that you will have numerous questions about why you are here, who I am, what I am and where you are, however, you will have to figure that out by yourself in the future because I only have a bit of time to talk to you. First off, what you are looking at right now is only a bit of my soul I left behind with you, to give you this message that you... are MY biological younger brother."

"..."

Lucifer was puzzled because he didn't believe any random person he has never met before, and upon seeing his reactions the person continued, "I know what you want to ask me, why you should believe me? I don't care if you believe me but I just wanted to warn you because you are my precious little brother. If you want to know why you don't remember anything about me, then I can tell you that it is because of me... before you get angry, listen to what I have to say. I did it because our uncle killed our father, mother and the rest of our family to get the position of the One True God - who reigns over each plane, world and universe -, thus I sent you and our little sister away while erasing your memories of everything that happened because once your memories unlock your soul stone that signifies whether you are alive or dead, will relight in the heavens. When that happens you will be killed by the other archangels since they listen to God's commands."

His body was slowly turning more translucent thus the man continued, "I will have to be quick, but I will quickly tell you about this place and its functions. This is something our father worked on to help one escape from a dangerous situation, but it can only be used once and the resources to make it is extremely rare, and that was the last one. This artefact has the power of space and time, thus a minute in the real world will be five years in here. But don't get excited because you can't cultivate your Qi in here since you are to low of a realm, but I sealed that (said with disgust)... vile being temporarily for you, but unfortunately when this I disappear he will be released, however, he will have a heavy penalty which restricts his strength to a bit more than half of what it was for a few years.

The man looked sad but affectionately at Lucifer as he said, "I know that we will meet once again in the heavens, but before then, you will have to find out about a lot of things you didn't know in the future. Since my soul is dissipating, I have to say goodbye, for now, little brother."

His body slowly disappeared yet his last words entered Lucifer's ears, "My name is Matthew," before he fully disappeared.

Lucifer was bewildered by everything he learned from the man but he was still sceptical, but he was excited knowing that he has a family out there somewhere, however, he will always see his master and his family as his real family.

But Lucifer immediately stopped his thought process because he couldn't trust others so easily, since he didn't know if he was lying to him or not, but he knew that he will eventually find out the truth in the future.

He started pondering about what he was going to do with the entity that was still currently sealed inside his mindscape but who will be released at any moment.

He started thinking about all the skills he had and what his skill, Heavenly Devouring skill, can do to help him in this upcoming fight, yet the more he looked the more he realized that 90% of his skills require higher cultivation strength. He looked closely at the Heavenly Devouring skill and found that it wasn't as simple as it seemed and was way more than what it seems to be. There were a few techniques hidden between the lines and one of them was the Heavenly Creation skill.

"The Heavenly Creation skill is a powerful skill that can use one's imagination and Qi as the input while circulating the Qi accordingly, the output however will be whatever the user can imagine which can be created by their own Qi as the output. For complex and things make sure that you have enough Qi to use this skill otherwise you will not be able to use Qi for weeks, years or in the worst-case scenario you will be disabled."

He circulated his Qi as the skill told him to and imagined a Honjō Masamune in his left hand. Instantly his Qi began congregating at his left hand, as the shape of the sword slowly began taking shape. Lucifer realized that the skill used more Qi to increase the dexterity, sharpness, and durability of the 'sword' like the real one was, but it didn't look like the real one at all. It was made of Lucifer's white Qi thus it is pure white without any detail on it.

When it was done he made it dissipate and absorbed the Qi back into his dantian since he knew he had to spent a lot of Qi to upkeep it, but the worst part was that it was going to be a waste of time since he was fighting that entity, though it may be useful in the future.

He waited for a minute before he felt like some sort of shackle broke inside his mind and a black fog escaped from between his eyebrows, landing right in front of him as it began to take shape.

It took the shape of a man, a vicious looking old man that was as thin as a skeleton with a vicious grin plastered on his face while he stared at Lucifer and his surroundings before he chuckled raspily which grated Lucifer's ears as he said, "It looks like you are interesting prey indeed, but no matter how much you struggle boy, you will become my vessel when I say that you would."

The man suddenly began circulating his Qi but he noticed that his strength was more than halved for some unknown reason, which shocked and confused him, but he came to a conclusion and looked towards Lucifer as he asked in disbelief, "W-what did you do to me? How did you do this? How did my strength drop to the level of Qi Wargod?"

Lucifer was ecstatic that the man's strength dropped so much just like Matthew said it would, but there was still a major problem, and that was that the man was still two mayor realms higher than he was.

The man composed himself before breaking out into laughter, "No matter, I can still easily defeat you," before he suddenly disappeared from his position moreover a split second later Lucifer felt all of his ribs break before he flew towards the end of the light dome, but it was as if there was an invisible wall there considering that he couldn't go through it.

After punching Lucifer through the air and seeing him still inside the light sphere, then the man suddenly appeared where Lucifer was standing, which was bad news for Lucifer, considering that the man was so fast that you felt the effects first before seeing him, just like lightning.

Lucifer lay there as he tried to stand up yet the man kicked him again and again, and no matter what he did he couldn't do anything to him, once again.

Seconds pass by and Lucifer's mind was racing to try to think of solutions, yet as he was lying there in a pool of his blood the man appeared in front of him as he grabbed his right arm, with a sadistic smile on his face, before he began slowly pulling it.

Lucifer could hear his bones breaking, his skin tearing, the muscles ripping, it was excruciating painful yet it wasn't the worst he has ever experienced thus he gritted his teeth.

This displeased the man but it made him bored and he threw his arm down, but he sends his Qi to his fingertip and swiped right as he sent a wisp of Qi out, slicing half of Lucifer's arm off.

The man was done messing around with him thus he put his hand on Lucifer's forehead as he stated, "Now you will die, but don't worry I will use your body better than you ever could," before sending his soul power into his mindscape once again.

Lucifer could only watch but he was still rapidly thinking of things to do, with his back towards the 'wall' which separated the dark and light, he glanced around and saw some of the particles in the darkness and got a 'marvellous' idea. He looked at the man and saw that he was still busy thus he began circulating his cultivation technique and began attracting the particles towards him, but since there was a barrier between them, all of the particles began converging near him and the wall like fish looking at food.

They couldn't get through the barrier. Thus they were just gathering against it, as millions of particles began pilling on top of one another against the 'wall' weakened the barrier, and after a few seconds when Lucifer felt that he was going to die in a couple of seconds, the barrier started to crack.

*Crack*

And like that, a light crack appeared but was quickly followed by another and another as it rapidly began spreading into hundreds, thousands, millions and billions of crack before finally it exploded letting the overwhelming amount of pressure of the outside darkness, the darkness itself and the particles rush inside.

*Boom*

It caused the man to awaken from what he was doing and spitting blood, since his concentration was interrupted, in horror while he looked at Lucifer as he yelled, "Do you know what you did, you just killed both of us." yet Lucifer was just shaking his head as he asserted, "No, I just killed you." After saying that the darkness fell like a crashing wave upon them, but Lucifer saw that dust or some sort of ground coming from the man's direction, but the particles were quicker since it was right on by him and rushed straight into Lucifer's body, towards his dantian.

In the darkness, Lucifer could feel his body slowly breaking apart but it was kept in check by the particles that were now circulating inside his body and slowly fusing with his dantian.

He opened his eyes inside the darkness after it crashed onto them, but when he did some of the outside particles rushed into his eyes, which once again caused soul splitting pain but he persevered through it and the particles now also entered through his eyes as it moved towards his soul, slowly fusing with both of them, yet due to all the pain and the fusion process, Lucifer blacked out.

...

After a minute in the real world passed, which was five years, was up he woke up but he somehow knew some of the things that happened, 'It seems that I somehow became blind thanks to the fusion process, but it is not such a big deal; however, I can't use my soul power considering that that man so damaged my soul, though luckily when it recovers I will be able to use my soul power to 'see' my surroundings but still... *sigh* my arm."

He 'looked' in his arm's direction and even though he couldn't see it because of his blindness or the darkness, he still wondered how he was able to survive, and not bleed out. He got curious thus he used his left arm to feel around his right arm, or what's left of it and felt a liquid floating around it as if time stopped for it.

"This floating liquid should be my blood."

He didn't wonder why it was frozen in time as he will just ponder over it later and began taking his shirt off with difficulty since he was used to using both arms, still, he was successful and with great difficulty used his left hand to wrap it around his stub in an attempt to stop the bleeding when he was out of this place so that he wouldn't bleed out.

After that, he stood up and looked towards the sky for a bit before he heard familiar footsteps and breathing behind him.

...

"That's how everything occurred."

Everyone was shocked by how much he went through and just in silence for a few seconds before Peter asked, "So you this Matthew told you that he was your elder brother, and you even have a little sister, you never knew about even when you were in the immortal world. But he talked about a world even higher... If he is your real brother and your uncle is the God of heaven then you will be in great danger down the road."

Everyone was solemn for too long which bothered Bruno thus he suddenly asked, "Lucifer you still haven't explained to us why you don't have your hair nor your facial hair grew, hehe."

His question breaking the solemn atmosphere almost instantly making everyone laugh, Lucifer laughed but he replied seriously, "Maybe just like my blood froze, everything else also stopped in time, but considering the body parts that underwent a fusion, probably activated that body part that didn't make it stop in time but continue to grow and mature."

He shrugged as it was just a theory, but Peter wanted to speak yet Samantha elbowed him lightly in the side, making him look at her questioningly. She signalled towards Elizabeth, who had her head hung low with red eyes and Lucifer that was looking right in her direction. Understanding her intentions Peter told Rose and Bruno about it with telepathy, and they nodded their heads with a slight smile as they thought of how they could and would tease her later. Peter declared, "Alright, let's go to allow Lucifer to rest for a bit."

Elizabeth was shocked and looked at them but shook her head as she was about to stand up but her mother was giving her a thumbs up which confused her but after a moment of trying to figure out what she meant she blushed, making her giggle as they all left the room leaving Lucifer and Elizabeth alone inside the room.