Maybe it was because Lailah was his first woman, but she was the one to feel that sothing was wrong.
Crash!
The tea cup she was holding in her hand shattered as she dropped it on the ground, and she imdiately doubled over, hyperventilating.
"Mommy!"
"My lady!"
"Lailah!"
At that mont she was surrounded by her family, and they all ca rushing to her side.
But the young witch could not speak, she could barely even breathe.
And after a few seconds, the rest of the wives were able to understand why.
"No... this can't be..."
"I can't feel him... I can't feel him!"
"What is going on!? What happened to him!?"
One by one, all of the girls collapsed alongside Lailah, and began wailing from what was undoubtedly the worst heartbreak imaginable.
-
"You can't rest here... You know that you have to go back."
'Five more minutes... I'm having such a good dream.'
"Oh? And what might it be about?"
'I'm... a child again... but I still have all of my mories. I can redo everything... and I can make sure that I erge stronger this ti...'
"Still so cute and spoiled after all of this ti... You have already received one heaven defying blessing, and now you're dreaming of a second? How greedy."
'Should I not be greedy...? I desire everything that might make untouchable, so that I will never know another defeat.'
"It hurts terribly to hear you say sothing like that... you of all people should know just how poisonous the ambition of a greedy man can beco."
'I'm sorry... the last thing I would ever want to do is hurt you...'
"So sweet... I will accept your apology once you awaken. "
'But I'm so tired... all I want to do is rest...'
"And you would certainly deserve that rest. But you still have so many who need you, not to ntion that beautiful family you have created. You are not ant to be separated from them."
'My family... they will no doubt scold relentlessly...'
"Fufufu~ And you would deserve it! Now open your eyes, so that you might have so hope of seeing them again."
'...Your na... I do not rember your na...'
"Well, that's because you haven't woken up yet. It's ti for you to open your eyes, my darling prince."
It was a nickna that he had long forgotten.
And yet when he heard it for the first ti in years, he rembered as if he had just heard it yesterday.
Abaddon's eyes opened, and they trembled from the sight of the vision in front of him.
His head was in the lap of a curvaceous young woman whom he knew very well.
She was every bit as beautiful as he rembered.
Possibly even more so.
Long and wild orange hair that reached all the way to her supple behind.
Creamy white skin devoid of any scars or imperfections.
Vibrant erald green eyes that contained an unfathomable amount of depth and warmth.
On top of her head sat two cute and fluffy tiger ears, the sight of which very nearly brought tears to his eyes.
"Lillian...?"
"There, you see? You rembered all along." She said with a smile.
Abaddon imdiately sat up, and he threw himself at the woman who had died terribly when he was still just a boy.
"Lillian... how is this possible...? No, don't answer that. There is so much I have to tell you..."
Lillian was a bit flustered by the fact that the young boy she had practically raised was now embracing her so firmly.
In the end, she tried to wrap her arms around him as well but failed due to his muscular body.
"I already know what you wish to tell , for I have never stopped watching you after all of this ti. You have beco such a wonderful man, my darling prince. And I am glad that you are finally whole."
It seed like Lillian really did know everything as she was already aware of his true identity.
Nonetheless, he still felt as if he had so much left to say.
"I have missed you more than you can ever know... I have always felt guilty for-"
"Hey now, don't go saying needless things. What happened to is not your fault nor do you need to apologize for my fate. You were deceived just as I was."
"But still, I should've-"
"Hey."
Suddenly, Lillian grabbed Abaddon by the face and began tugging on his cheeks just like when he was a child.
"Dragons really do have so thick skulls, don't they? I said it's not your fault, so why are you still so determined to carry the bla?"
"I am much too old for you to still tug at my face like this..."
"Says who!?"
Abaddon chuckled as he re called this aspect of Lillian's personality that he liked the most.
She was sohow one of the most gentle won he'd ever known and also sothing of the abrasive big sister.
Suddenly, Lillian pressed their foreheads together and spoke to him gently once again.
"You don't have ti to sit around here feeling guilty for the death of so old nanny. You have important things to do, no? These lands are not the place for you."
Abaddon briefly glanced at his surroundings and realized that he couldn't make them out.
He had no concept of what he was seeing, all that he was able to grasp were the souls of others wandering about, muttering incomprehensible words.
"It would seem not... but this is not the place for you either."
"That ship has sailed a long ti ago, prince." She said sadly. "I wish that my place was still alongside you, but fate so rarely gives us what we desire."
Gradually, she began to put distance between the two of them, as if she was afraid of clinging to him for even a mont longer.
Abaddon looked down at his own body and realized that unlike Lillian, he was incorporeal and disappearing from this place at a rapid rate.
It seed as though he would have to say goodbye to her yet again.
"No... not like this... not ever again."
"Eh?"
Suddenly, Abaddon pressed his body against Lillian and held her like he was a precious treasure.
Death magic began to overflow from his very soul, encompassing the two of them in a do like shell.
Abaddon could feel a great existence fighting him, trying to stop what he was attempting to do and wrest Lillian away from his grasp.
But it didn't matter.
She deserved so much more than this.
And he would be damned if he was going to leave her behind once again.
"W-What're you-"
"Is it not obvious? I'm taking you ho."
"What?! Prince, you can't do-"
"Lillian."
Abaddon had a look of unwavering seriousness in his eyes as he grabbed his nanny by the face and made her look at him.
"Just once... allow to be a bit greedy, okay?"
Lillian's cheeks turned pink as she opened her mouth to say sothing, only to run out of ti as Abaddon ripped her away from the clutches of death itself.
-
After Satan killed Abaddon, the euphrates rushed at him, grief stricken and blood lusted.
In the blink of an eye they had forgotten all about the opponents they were supposed to be fighting against and turned all of their focus on the wounded demigod.
"YOU BASTARD, I'LL KILL YOU!!" Kanami roared with tears in her eyes.
Her body began to break apart and stretch, until she changed into an enormous snakelike dragon with no wings.
She looked just like her god, only she was slightly smaller and significantly less frightening.
The rest of the euphrates weren't far behind, as they all transford and rushed at Satan with the intent to devour him whole.
Showered in such imnse and potent hate, the sin of wrath felt his healing abilities surge and a knowing smoke spread on what remained of his lips.
"You are just as he was... glorious!"
Covering his hand in a dark red aura, Satan knocked all fifty of the enraged chiras out of the sky.
BOOM!
BOOM!
BOOM!
The euphrates fell onto the ground like teors descending onto the earth.
Satan relished in their hatred that was already returning him to his peak strength, so much so that he did not notice that sothing was clearly wrong.
But Leviathan was not quite as slow.
'That boy held three of the seven sins... the pain and weakness i should be feeling should be imnse but... I don't feel anything?'
She kept her gaze firmly locked on Abaddon's body.
She wasn't exactly sure what she was looking for, but an inkling in the back of her mind was telling her that there was sothing she was missing about this whole scenario.
Finally, there was a change.
BOOOOOOOMMMMMMMM!!!!!!
Out of nowhere, Abaddon's corpse was engulfed in a massive column of unbearable white fire.
The heat coming off of him was so terrible that the temperature of the entire planet shot up ten whole degrees.
There was a purchase that Abaddon made from the system that he often forgot about.
Phoenix heart was a skill that allowed him to return from death once every two months.
Since it wasn't a power that he ever wanted to be reliant upon, he had practically erased it's existence from his mory.
He also did not like to lose, so he always hoped that he would never have to use it anyway.
Abaddon stepped out of the pillar of fire, carrying a nude woman in his arms.
His eyes and tattoos were glowing with a radiant white light, and even his hair now seed to be made of the most unruly fla as it flickered all over from one place to another.
Abaddon looked down at the woman in his arms and saw that she was fully awake and responsive, but her eyes had gone wide with disbelief.
Abaddon finally looked up from Lillian's confused face to see the destruction that his resurrection had caused.
The area he was standing on had been turned into a molten crater the likes of which resembled boiling magma.
His soldiers were strewn out all over the place, so nearby and so far.
But none of them seed to be suffering any ill effects from the horrible heat, instead they were simply overco with joy from seeing their god alive and well.
Satan was several ters away, with his entire body encased in a red shield to protect him from the overwhelming heat.
However, his efforts were very quickly being undone as his shield began to catch on fire as well, feeding on Satan's magic as if it were a flammable source and spreading.
In a mont, he would have no defense.
"What... did you do..? HOW ARE YOU STILL ALIVE?!! ANSWER , MONGREL!"
"It is as you said I suppose..." Abaddon replied slowly.
"Power does not die."
Satan was utterly baffled.
It was as if Abaddon was the living incarnation of the sun.
He didn't understand how he was sohow back from the dead, or how he was wielding power comparable to a god of fire.
"Oddly enough, I feel even more indebted to you now than I did before."
"WHAT-"
Right before Satan's eyes, a small white fla appeared inside of his barrier.
An effect of the phoenix heart was that it empowered all fire affinity skills at a whopping 300% for fifteen minutes.
But that number didn't just apply to his overall firepower, it applied to his control and range as well.
Right now, anything, anywhere, at anyti was his to burn.
The small white fla within Satan's shield exploded, engulfing the demon in a mass of blinding white flas that seed desperate to consu him entirely.
Once his barrier disappeared, Abaddon slowly placed Lillian onto the ground and moved to investigate.
"Cover your eyes. This isn't sothing I want you to see."
The ghostly woman floated upwards, seemingly unaware that she was still nude as she watched the back of the boy she'd practically raised.
'My prince... what did you do...?'
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