First Demonic Dragon

Chapter 1073: Oblivion is Everything and Nothing

“…You do not do very much for a child.”

K’ael looked up from his toys scattered across the living room floor.

Amaterasu stared back at him. She poked his cheek with her finger and marveled at it’s springiness. Though her expression remained neutral.

“…I guess you’re not that bad for an infant.”

Their mother lay across the ground with a smile, watching everything they did with a mother’s pride. Her undead heart grew more than three sizes the longer she stared.

“Arms up.”

Abaddon sat up on the sofa and lifted his arms.

Lailah ran her hands from the base of Abaddon’s wrists to his underarms and sides.

She touched his body meticulously, though not in her usual perverse and fascinated manner.

From the elasticity of his skin, to the rigidity of his muscles to the softness of the hairs coming out of his arm, Lailah was intimately familiar with all of it after all of these years.

She was enamored by all of the apparent changes. Just as much as she was perplexed by them.

Lailah brought three of her fingers together and rubbed the pads against her husband’s upper body.

Abaddon’s tattoos had always been animated, but now they were responsive. They became more excitable in conjunction with Lailah’s touch.

“What do they mean..?”

“That I love you.”

Lailah rolls her eyes, but shows no clear displeasure. “Then I had best not see them move for anyone but us, you hear? That is, if you want to keep living.”

“I’ll keep that in mind..”

Ignoring the warm mood between them, Lailah brought her hands up to the large gem sitting in Abaddon’s chest.

Usually, Abaddon’s body was warm, like the space beside a fireplace.

But when Lailah placed a hand over his gem, she was surprised to learn just how cold it was.

“It’s freezing..!”

“Ooh, let me see!”

Sif barged over and placed her own hand over the rock.

A delighted chill ran up her spine. Abaddon’s gem was one of the coldest, if not the coldest, thing she had ever touched in her entire life. It was wonderful.

Sif, who liked cold things, was immediately enamored.

“Ahhh…. this is wonderful.”

Abaddon watched her rub her cheeks against the stone like a small kitten.

He wanted to pet her, but as he quite liked having his hands unbroken, he decided against it.

“Alright, alright, that’s enough rubbing.”

Lailah used all of her strength to pull their wife away by her shoulders.

Sif seemed to be in genuine dismay about being separated. Abaddon realized then that he had inadvertently given his wife a new location of fascination on his body.

And this area wasn’t even fun to have harassed like the others were.

A magnifying glass appeared in Lailah’s hand. She leaned in and gave the gem a closer inspection.

She only needed two seconds to reach a conclusion.

“You made this?” She questioned her husband.

Bekka was lying across the sofa, her fist in a bowl of cheese balls. “Of course, he made it; it’s coming out of his body. Like nails, or horns.”

Lailah put away her magnifying glass. “No, babe, I mean, he made it with his magic.”

“Ohhh..!”

Everyone looked towards Abaddon. Now that they knew he had made something like that on his own, they naturally wanted to know why.

“Well? Spill it, handsome.” Audrina nudged him.

Abaddon rubbed the back of his head with a nervous smile. “Before we get into all that…. You know how we’ve been saying it might be time to redo the bedroom?”

Valerie sat up abruptly. “No!?”

“Oh, well… we kinda have to now.”

Amaterasu wondered if it was bad for little K’ael to see his mother strangle his father. However, judging by the way he giggled to the point of gasping, she figured that it was alright.

–

Abaddon’s hands wrapped around the door handles to his room, and he started to push them open.

However, he paused before he turned the handles.

To cover his own ass, he turned around and smiled at the twelve of them.

“Ummm… before I show you this, I just want you all to know that it was completely accidental.”

Valerie had never heard Abaddon apologize this much for anything. She became convinced that she was about to see something so horrific that it would make her want to pull off his head.

She rushed past him when she couldn’t take the suspense any longer. And she threw open the doors to their bedroom herself.

Gasps arose from all of the women.

Their bedroom… it looked like the entire space had gone through a blender.

Not just the furniture and the things they had inside, but the very fabric of the space itself had been ripped away. Leaving behind a white, bleak background. Screaming for the laws of creation to paint it.

“My god, honey, what is this mess..?”

Lisa held up her hand, and a blue light shone out.

However, the spell around her hands broke, leaving her and the others in complete shock.

Lisa couldn’t rewind time on the room. A first for her, who was one of the best in the family at that particular trick.

“I tried that already…” Abaddon grimaced. “I’m sorry.”

He held out his hands, and a large wooden box appeared.

Only a corner piece was missing, but otherwise, it was perfectly intact.

“I managed to save this, and a few other things… I tried to grab what was most important.”

Lisa unclasped the lid and lifted it up. Relief flooded her.

Inside the box, there were a whole slew of mismatched items. Each of which belonged to their children.

They had everything, from their first pairs of shoes to the first paintings they ever made.

Lisa never knew how much she feared losing these things until there was a day she was in actual jeopardy of it.

“Thank god…” She sighed.

The other wives were just as relieved as her.

One by one, they all floated into the room and looked around.

80% of their things were destroyed or damaged—a few of sentimental value, like the clothes they wore on their wedding days.

He looked towards Valerie, waiting to see how she would react.

This entire house was, in a way, also Valerie’s baby.

She put an immense amount of attention and detail into every nook and cranny of this home. Her goal was for this to be a place where generations of the Tathamet family would live together comfortably. Their room was the first place she designed.

Abaddon felt so guilty about destroying it that he couldn’t even look her in the eye.

“How did you do this…? Even for you, this is..” Erica couldn’t even finish.

Instead of answering, Abaddon shared the memory with them. For a few seconds, the girls became rigid as they watched the scene playback.

When it was over, there was only one thing that they could say.

“Shit….”

Abaddon couldn’t even crack a joke if he wanted to. He looked down at the gem in his chest with a bitter gaze.

“I think it’s best if I keep this little thing covered for a while…” He smiled wryly.

The girls nodded in unison with ghastly expressions.

Suddenly, he felt Valerie take his hand.

He finally looked at her and found her giving him a sympathetic look.

“It’s alright. We got all the stuff that matters, and everything else… can be replaced. It’s just stuff.”

A pink glow emanated from Valerie.

For a moment, the entire room was pitch black, and then it became filled with color.

The room expanded, becoming a near infinite space. The ceiling became a bright, starry sky with a glowing purple hue.

Their bed and the rest of their furniture simply vanished into the void. Valerie cracked her knuckles.

“Maybe you were right. Maybe we could use some redecorating around here…”

As Valerie walked away with a glimmer of obsessiveness in her eye, Abaddon finally felt his own wave of relief.

“Alright, answer plain.” Lailah stepped in front of him again. “What exactly happened to you for you…”

Lailah blinked several times over as she stared at Abaddon.

She circled him nine times in under half a second, her expression growing more incredulous every time.

“Your divinities… they’re gone!”

Once Lailah noticed, it wasn’t long before the rest of the girls did as well.

They were all equally horrified. All except for Eris.

And Abaddon apparently.

“I dunno… I wouldn’t say that they are gone.” He smiled.

Abaddon held out his hands, and a glowing pink sphere appeared in front of them. An orb of pure sexual divinity.

After another second, there was another sphere. Then a fifth. Then a twelfth.

The girls stopped counting after he turned their room into a magical firefly farm.

Abaddon smiled proudly at their stupefied faces. It was nice to still be able to surprise them after all of these years.

He opened his mouth and said something in a language none of the girls had ever heard before, yet they understood it clearly.

I am Oblivion. I am Continuity and Entropy. I am Relativity and Regularity. I am the First of the Absolutes.

Nothing may constrain me. No one can subvert me.

All must come from me. All must return to me.

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