[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-first-demonic-dragon":3,"chapter-first-demonic-dragon-first-demonic-dragon-chapter-526":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"english","First Demonic Dragon",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":20,"prevChapterSlug":21,"totalChapters":22,"novelImage":23},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":16,"volume":17,"translator":18,"content_hash":19},1078146,1393,"Chapter 526 Lives Lived Before","first-demonic-dragon-chapter-526",526,"\u003Cp>After Abaddon and Valerie sat down with the rest of the group of miraculous divine beings, they sat and watched the game that was already underway.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The pair watched silently, but if they were honest they were in the midst of falling asleep.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Neither of them found chess to be particularly interesting, even if it was god himself playing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Besides, this place was so tranquil and beautiful that it made anyone feel like they could lay down their burdens and rest easy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You two do not seem terribly interested.\" Azrael suddenly said.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"E-Eh? Sorry if we seemed rude, it's just that my husband only plays monster card games with our second son, so this is a bit too highbrow for him.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"My wife can't sit anywhere for long periods of time unless she has a beer and a trashy reality tv show in front of her.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Valerie and Abaddon suddenly stared at each other accusatorially.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"\"Are you trying to embarrass me in front of company??\"\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Azrael laughed soundlessly as he moved another wooden piece on the board.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I.. don't believe that is what I meant.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The two of you sit at the font of all life and creation, the source of which everything that you know, and everything that you do not, came into being.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet you have no questions for us?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Abaddon and Valerie looked at each other with a slightly embarrassed look on their faces.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This in turn only made Azrael laugh harder.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I... What's with the big tree?\" Valerie asked as she scratched her cheek.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"That is the tree of life. Your fa-... I mean Gulban, is it's artisan.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I am suddenly much more uninterested.\" Valerie muttered.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, Abaddon wasn't.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Why does a tree need an artisan?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Azrael held out his hand towards the tree.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Please, see for yourself.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Abaddon and Valerie glanced at each other before shrugging.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Floating upwards, the couple circled the strange tree with golden leaves and gave it a curious eye.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Abaddon felt a strange sense of familiarity the closer that he got to it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And upon close inspection, he realized exactly why he felt that way.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"These are... different universes and their timelines.\" he realized.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The striations present on the undersides of the golden leaves were certainly not normal.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They resembled ordinary leaf veins at first, but closer inspection revealed that they were actually pulsing with energy, and contain an uncountable number of souls.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Gulban is responsible for the crafting of every universe and world design produced by the tree of life.\" Azrael explained.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"While the fates are responsible for mapping out the lives of mortals, Gulban builds their worlds and implants their expiration dates. Not every planet has a primordial to live on after all.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"That's right, punk bitch!\" Gulban boasted as he pointed at Abaddon. \"And inside of the timelines I craft, I am god! So try to put your hands on me again and see how well it works out for you in the-\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Gulban.\" Asherah said solemnly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Fine...\" Again, the maker folded his arms and went back to quietly brooding and shooting Abaddon death glares.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ignoring him, Abaddon reached out and touched one of the leaves atop the tree.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In a twist he wasn't expecting, a feeling like a bolt of energy ran through him and his mind was flooded with new information.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He could see the dimension's beginning, middle, and end, all without pause.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He also appeared to have ingrained himself within the timeline accidentally too.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He could pick any moment at any time and any place and appear there whenever he liked and interfere however he liked too.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But he was pretty sure he wasn't supposed to do that.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'Whoops…'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I would have thought that you designed things like this yourself, Mr. Creator.\" Valerie pointed out.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"He's gotten lazy in his old age…\" Asherah muttered.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yesh held up his hands in surrender. 'I am retired now. And besides, despite Gulban's brashness, he is a much more talented world builder than I. Eden and the White City are my best works.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>An air of superiority now surrounded Gulban that Valerie quite frankly found annoying.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But at that moment, Abaddon finally remembered that he did have something to ask Yesh and Asherah after all.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He touched his chest with one of his hands and pulled out a small, ethereal shard that looked like a cracked diamond.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even for these incredibly powerful beings in attendance, it was still blinding to look at.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Why did you give me this without my knowledge..? Are you pitying me? Were you unconfident in my strength?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Asherah and Yesh looked at each other momentarily before the creator shook his head.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'Giving you that.. is a symbol of my faith and belief in you. That you will be able to achieve a future that I myself will be incapable of when the time comes.'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'...That is all you are going to-'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'That is alll that I am going to tell you, yes.'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Feeling like he'd been beaten somehow, Abaddon couldn't help but roll his eyes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Don't tell us you wish for us to take our gift back?\" Asherah asked.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Fat chance!\" Overlord of the abyss or not, Abaddon was still a dragon, and a love of nice and shiny things was in his blood.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Though... I hope that you two do not mind if I tweak it a bit.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Immediately, the already silent realm beyond realms became even quieter.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But if one listened closely, they could very clearly hear the sound of Azrael and Gulban's brains beginning to smoke as they tried to process Abaddon's last words.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I'm sorry... what did you say?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Great bleedin fuck, this brat is off his rocker...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Abaddon put his broken spark back and folded all eight arms across his chest. \"I say something strange to you both?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"\"Yes.\"\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I'm not sure how.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You are talking about tampering with primordial powers so old that they don't have a name, and so profound that I could not explain it with a hundred dictionaries.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Uh-huh.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"...If you were as smart as you were handsome, I've no doubt that every alternate dimension would have already been plundered by now.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Valerie snickered while Abaddon rolled his eyes. \"I do not see the issue. I've done something similar with Lucifer's sins, so I don't see why this should be much different.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You stole my brother's sins and remade them??\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Saying that I 'stole' them feels a bit too-\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Valerie : \"That's exactly what he did.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Whose side are you on you little minx?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Always yours, but honesty is honesty, babe.\" Valerie kissed Abaddon on the cheek in apology and he accepted it while trying to keep his tail under control.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>C\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On the other hand, Azrael couldn't believe that the man in front of him had actually stolen power away from the light bringer and remolded it to suit his own purposes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"...May I see them?\" he asked in mild suspicion.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Abaddon saw no harm in it, so he cooperated with Azrael's request.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He waived his hand and seven ethereal spheres came floating out of his chest.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Azrael's eyes nearly rocketed from his skull.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'How can this be...? He made them stronger and... erased their malevolence?' the angel of death couldn't believe what he was seeing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Fundamentally, the seven sins were an evil power that was designed to corrupt mortals, immortals, and anything else in between.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But these new sins were neither good, nor evil.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Like storms or volcanic eruptions, they were forces of nature.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'I can not imagine... what this man could do with the heavenly virtues...' the archangel thought.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Abaddon deposited all of the sins back into his body and Asherah finally spoke.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"It is your gift, so you may do what you wish with it, but I must ask... Is there a reason why you want to temper with the fabled spark?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Abaddon shrugged.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'...You are not going to-'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I am not going to answer, no.\" Abaddon smiled.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Against all expectations, Yesh found himself wanting to laugh.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In this moment, he felt like everything that he had done until this point was worth it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He never got over the fate of what happened to his first creation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>To fix his mistake, he washed Abaddon's essence in the well of souls many times as he tried to bring him back to himself.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But eldritch essence doesn't just go away with a few quick scrubs.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In his first 1000 or so reincarnations, Abaddon was either schizophrenic or downright psychopathic.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sometimes it was both.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just when Yesh felt he may have to give up on his endeavor after millions of years of trying, Abaddon was reborn as Carter.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And even though his living conditions were terrible, he was mentally competent, save for his tendency to cope with depression with dark humor.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was truly the best outcome he could have hoped for.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Abaddon sat back down on the ground with Valerie in his lap. \"Though.. I suppose I could be persuaded to divulge my reasons if you shared something with me.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Oh? I wonder what the new god of stories doesn't already know?\" Asherah asked curiously.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Finally, Abaddon seemed to become slightly serious.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"My precious Thea... Who is her mother?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Twice that day, the nexus of creation fell deadly silent.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Asherah seemed to be thinking about something rather intensely beyond her veil.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Well.. since you have assumed care for the child, I see no harm in it. A few decades ago, the goddess-\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Suddenly, Yesh raised a single hand to stop her and stood up.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'Wait. It seems someone is trying to find this place.'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He reached out with but one finger and cut a hole in the fabric of the mythological space.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Taking a step back, he allowed a woman to step through.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'It is odd to hear you of all people pray to me, child of beginning. I wonder what I could possibly do to aid you?'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The woman bowed her head slightly in a respectful gesture.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Pardon my intrusion, Yesh. I prayed to you because I needed your help in getting in contact with someone.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'There exists someone who even you cannot find? Have you considered that they might not wish for you to find them?'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'Of course I have, but this is..@\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Suddenly, the woman looked past the creator to a few of the guests in attendance.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Abaddon and the woman's eyes met, and he was able to get a good looker.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She was very beautiful, among the most popular models and celebrities in Tehom.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her olive skin was divine and perfect, resembling a work of the finest art.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She had long raven hair that fell all the way down to her bare feet, and it flowed with all of the grace and freedom of an ocean.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her body was curvaceous, yet slender and motherly; eliciting a lust in most men that was downright biblical.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At first glance, her eyes appeared to be purely black, but coming into closer\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Abaddon didn't need to look in his library of memories to find out who this woman was, because he had already done it so much that he recognized her immediately.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'Nyx!'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Once the woman landed eyes on him, a glint of recognition shone in her mesmerizing black eyes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Oh? Seems I've found him already. Abaddon, correct? I need your help.\"\u003C\u002Fp>",1888,"2026-06-03T10:36:47.475Z","2026-06-03T10:36:49.669Z",1,"novelbin.me","405159f1b14163eeb4d480d92406a77c87d3d53f60164deed3dd32537c31ca4e","first-demonic-dragon-chapter-527","first-demonic-dragon-chapter-525",1284,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Ffirst-demonic-dragon-cover.jpg"]