[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-first-demonic-dragon":3,"chapter-first-demonic-dragon-first-demonic-dragon-chapter-718":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},1078238,1393,"Chapter 718: Back From The Dead","first-demonic-dragon-chapter-718",718,"\u003Cp>\"What's good, bro?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Abaddon blinked his eyes several times in a second.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Somehow, someway, he was no longer inside of hell.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Instead, he was standing in a downtown apartment building that looked like it was situated in a large city.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sunlight was streaming through three big open windows into a decent-sized white bedroom.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A young man sat at a desk across the room.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At first glance, Abaddon mistook him for his old self.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He was a young black man in his early twenties with a short haircut and glasses.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The key differences were, this man had a short beard, his face had no acne, and his left arm was covered in tattoos; a komainu on his upper arm, and a beautiful woman with a split hannya mask on his forearm.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Abaddon waited and waited, but the young man just kept typing away on his computer after his initial greeting. Never bothering to say anything else.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"…What is this?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You died.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"What?!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Just fucking with you man, sit down.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Abaddon was understandably annoyed, and the young man seemed to know it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Jesus, brother. You're looking madder than a redneck with mixed grandkids.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Yes, well my patience is extremely thin at the moment and I don't have time to sit around and listen to-\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Huh. 'Don't have enough time' he says...\" The young man chuckled.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Something funny?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"It's amazing that someone who lives inside of a realm where he molds time to his fingers everyday to match the school schedule of his adopted daughter, can't notice when time isn't actually passing around him.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Now that Abaddon stopped to pay attention, he finally noticed that the young man was right.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He usually only felt this level of stillness and nothingness when he isolated a space from time, or…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I'm asleep?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Kinda.\" The young man shrugged. \"It's more like I pulled your consciousness here and isolated it.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The young man suddenly looked up from his computer and looked Abaddon up and down.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Boy, you are just like a supernatural Derrick Henry, ain't you? Just big as shit for no reason.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Abaddon felt a vein bulge against his forehead.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"…Why am I here? Who are you?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Which one should I answer first?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You can't multitask?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"…Fair enough.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The young man leaned forward and Abaddon watched his eyes turn completely black.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The human equivalent of twelve billion years spent together, and you can't even remember me. I'm insulted…. It's because I've gained weight, isn't it?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The young man covered his stomach in annoyance.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"It's your fault I look like this. Your mind said that this was the easiest form, scenario, and personality for you to comprehend. I guess it's better than being animated. Or a dog.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The gears in Abaddon's mind got to turning, and it took him a few months back.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>To when he first destroyed his body and soul, and spent an eternity fighting an entity who he never even saw, for a power he felt he desperately needed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the end, he absorbed it. And became the sole embodiment of…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Oblivion.\" He realized.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The oldest and the coldest.\" Oblivion grinned. \"Not to mention the only-est..? … That's not a word, is it? Don't matter, you know what I mean.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Abaddon began to feel like he was getting a migraine.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Enemies coming back from the dead was something that he absolutely did not need right now.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"…You are supposed to be dead.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Wow, you are shit at reunions. Here I thought we'd bonded!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There I was, resting at the end of all things and minding my own unfathomably black business when your scaly ass pops up and starts demanding my power.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Who does that?! You didn't even bring a houseplant! Shit was unjust!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Abaddon was steadily on his way to growing the fattest ulcer of his life.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"But do you know what? I admired your relentless persistence. I found it really interesting.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I kept fighting with you because I wanted to see how much of that persistence a simple existence like you had in store.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Oblivion suddenly grimaced.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"But god, then you just wouldn't leave me alone after eleven billion years, and even though time has no meaning to me, that doesn't mean I don't get bored.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Besides, it wasn't like I was learning any more about you through continued fighting. So I decided to throw in the towel.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Abaddon was showing a smile that was not a smile.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I'm sorry… Are you trying to tell me that you let me win out of pity?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"No, my brother, of course not!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Then wh-\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"It was more like boredom.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There were very few words that could have described how Abaddon felt in that moment.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He finally did decide to take a seat and rubbed his temples in pure exhaustion.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Oblivion chuckled as he held out his arms and gloated.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Don't look so down, brother man. I am a bonafide Xeno-Dimensional Entity.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>You thought you could kill me? I don't 'die'.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I'm beholden to nothing but totality itself, and even powers greater than you can't change that.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Abaddon felt as if he were a kid being patronized after losing a little league game.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"…Smug, fat, sack of shit.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I was only speaking the truth, and I told you I only look like this because of you!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Abaddon groaned as he rapped his knuckles against his skull.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"So we're fused together now? I don't want any more additional personalities in my mind at this point of my life.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Eh… I wouldn't exactly put it like that.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Then how would you put it exactly?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Abaddon watched Oblivion smile and stand up for his desk.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He reappeared at another point in the room with a paint cavas and wearing a smock.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>An easel was created in front of him, and after placing the canvas on it, he summoned a single, tiny paintbrush.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Here, come look at this.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Abaddon walked over to the young man.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He watched him point to the canvas, then himself.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You see this blank slate? This is me… but less southern and rotund.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Oblivion then held up the brush with a single drop of paint.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"And this thing? It's you.\" He said.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He poked the canvas a single time before putting away the paintbrush and holding up the canvas.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Pay attention.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Abaddon watched and watched, but he didn't notice anything.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But he knew Oblivion wasn't telling him this for no reason.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So he continued to watch. His mind entered a sort of meditative state and he spent so long watching the dot of paint. Hours? Days? Years? He couldn't tell anymore.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>All that he knew was that when he finally saw the dot move, his body felt stiff.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"…It expanded.\" Abaddon said.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Sure did.\" Oblivion nodded. \"And in the process, a bit more of the canvas has been dyed in it's color. Just like you and I.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Abaddon didn't understand. Oblivion found that amusing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I had no real personality before I miraculously came into contact with with you.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Everything that I learn, everything that I emulate, it is all because im being influenced by you.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It might take a few billion years, but eventually you will have overwritten me. I will be gone.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"…You don't seem to have many issues with that.\" Abaddon noted.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Oblivion shrugged while wearing a small smirk.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You really… you don't understand just how little you come to care about things when you are the endpoint of all.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I'm just simple cog in her ever turning grand design, big man.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Maybe I was always fated to be the empty place holder until you were ready to assume the role permanently.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Either way, I'm curious about what's next for me.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Will I fully become you, or will my consciousness pass on to a new realm even I can't begin to perceive?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I'm eager to find out, but for now I'm here watching you ride down the street on a bike.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just waiting for the day you ask me to take the training wheels off.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"…You're the reason I can't access all of my abilities.\" Abaddon realized. \"Why I can only scratch the surface of oblivion.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You can thank me for that too.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If I wasn't keeping our best cards in the deck, then you would tear apart this Aeon that you are so inexplicably fond of.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>You're not comprehending how unfair of an existence I am.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The word aeon scratched something in Abaddon's mind, but he couldn't quite put a finger on it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He shook his head hard to discard the thought since it wasn't nearly as important right now.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I need you to send me back. I'm in the middle of something that I can't afford to distract myself from.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Why the hell do you think you're here? You think I grabbed you in the middle of that super dramatic moment for shits and giggles?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Abaddon was almost inclined to say yes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You're digging a little too far into my restrictions, dickhead. I put them up for a good fucking reason.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Abaddon briefly recalled everything that had happened before he was pulled here.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lillian gave up everything for their child.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He watched her crumble and disappear before his eyes and he felt his grip on her slipping.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And it destroyed him in a way that nothing he'd ever known could.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His desperation made him reach deep. He fed Lillian's life force every bit of energy that he had, and even more than he meant to.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>All with one singular thought in mind.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The woman I love can't die.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"…I don't regret anything that I did. You can't possibly understand how this day has tested me. I will do whatever I can to-\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I understand exactly how you felt.\" Oblivion said seriously for the first time today. \"I don't watch everything that you do, but I did feel that desperation. That… what do you call it? …Fear.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"If you understand it, then why are you still holding me here?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Because I need to make sure you get this, brother-man.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>You were about to use a power that would have torn your current self, and everything around you, apart.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And it was our antithesis too, can you believe that shit? Had me hotter than fish grease.\" Oblivion huffed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I don't understand. What power??\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Oblivion sighed in exhaustion.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He snapped his fingers and a white board with a dry erase marker appeared in his had.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Abaddon took another look down and he was sitting in a desk just like he was back in school.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Open up your ears and listen, brother-man. I'm going to explain to you the fundamental principles behind Absolute Law, and True Abolishment.\"\u003C\u002Fp>",1771,"2026-06-03T10:36:56.721Z","2026-06-03T10:37:03.122Z",1,"novelbin.me","c6f6ca27f5429109e8a6042599da07e25f1f274b7e10260d8e602849e88ec846","first-demonic-dragon-chapter-719","first-demonic-dragon-chapter-717",1284,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Ffirst-demonic-dragon-cover.jpg"]