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00:00After accumulating a thousand years of merit in the Underworld, I could finally reincarnate as the child of an abyssal
00:06ord.
00:07But the moment I entered my mother's demon womb, she sacrificed me to the Abyss again and again.
00:13The first time, she extracted my soul flame to frame the succubus count and was promoted to veteran.
00:18The second time, she crushed my demon core to blame the vampire Marchese and rose to count.
00:22The third time, she tore apart my soul body to incriminate the bone duke and was granted the title of
00:27Marcuse.
00:28The fourth time, she ground me into soul fragments, devoured the last trace of my demonic power, and ascended to
00:33the position of duke.
00:34Next time, Mother will surely love you properly.
00:37This was the fifth time.
00:38The moment my consciousness formed inside the demon Wuth, I heard her whisper to her confidant.
00:43When the demon feudus reaches three months, I'll fall before the Abysmal Council.
00:49Once the Seventh Lord is brought down, no one will be able to compete with me for the demon king's
00:56authority.
00:56I laughed inside the pitch-black fetal foam.
01:00If I couldn't wait for birth after four times, then I would simply change mothers.
01:06After all, whoever became my mother would be the one worthy of sitting on that throne.
01:14Returned and rushed into the womb of the Seventh Lord,
01:17who had guarded the seventh layer of the Abyss for a thousand years, yet had never had an heir.
01:23I slowly opened my soul awareness inside the Skor's demon womb.
01:26The surroundings were filled with Mephira's unique, sulfurous bloodline aura,
01:30like a furnace that had burned for five lifetimes, trapping me in its deepest depths.
01:34This was the fifth time.
01:36Unlike the previous four times, I did not eagerly press myself close to her demon core, craving that false warmth.
01:41I merely withdrawed all traces of my soul aura and hovered at the very edge of the fetal falbrum,
01:46listening to the whispers inside the demon palace.
01:48In the inner chamber, her trusted blood priest lowered her voice,
01:52every word piercing clearly through the fetal membrane and falling into my soul.
01:56Duke, I have repeatedly performed blood divination.
02:00This fetus is still useless.
02:03It doesn't even possess the lowest grade demon mark.
02:06Mephira's fingertips brushed over her flat lower abdomen.
02:09Purple-black demon runes faintly flowed beneath her skin,
02:12and her tone was as calm as if she were discussing how many inferior demons had been sacrificed today.
02:17Since it is a useless feta, let it serve its final bit of value.
02:22Rest assured, my lord, I have prepared the abysmum leeches,
02:26as well as shadow potions that can conceal magical fluctuations.
02:30When the time comes, even if the demon king's blood peoples partially inspect it,
02:35they won't see any flaws.
02:37Mephira gave a soft laugh, and the smell of sulfur grew stronger.
02:41Very good.
02:42This fetus must be used to destroy Astarath.
02:46Bring her down, and the seven layers of the abysspos will fall into my hands.
02:51When that time comes,
02:53His Majesty the Demon's King's Gaze will fall on me alone.
02:56Mekrely word was like a red-hot iron nail driven into my soul body.
03:00I instinctively curled up my damaged soul,
03:03and the temperature inside the demon womb suddenly turned bone-shilling.
03:07Male surprise, not even the slottest shock.
03:10I should have known long ago, that not once during any pregnancy had she truly hoped for me to break
03:15free from the womb and be born.
03:17Sealed memories surged backward through my soul veins, and the staring pain was clearer than ever before.
03:23During the first pregnancy, I had just formed a complete demon soul and joyfully pressed close to her demon core,
03:29yearning for that faint bloodline bond.
03:31But she tore open the fetal membrane, extracted my soul flame, and turned it into a wist of green Tassafratus
03:36to the abyss.
03:37Agonizing pain shredded my consciousness.
03:39I disintegrated inch by inch, while she framed the succubus count, and was naturally promoted to Viscount.
03:44During the second pregnancy, she personally crushed my demon core.
03:49Surging demonic power poured into her body.
03:52Her demon runnels expanded threefold,
03:55and she framed the vampire Marchake, steadily rising to count.
03:59During the third pregnancy, she crashed into the sharp edge of the abyssal altar,
04:04letting the altar's backlash tear my soul body apart.
04:07Covered in blood, she accused the Bone Duke, and obtained the title of Marquis as she wished.
04:13During the fourth pregnancy, she drained my life force day after day,
04:17slowly exhausting my soul origin.
04:20In the end, she ground me into dust,
04:22blamed the abysmal priest temple for inadequate nourishment,
04:26and directly ascended to the position of Duke.
04:28Before my consciousness faded each time,
04:30she would gently stroke the demon womb and repeat that lie.
04:33Next time, Mother will surely love you properly.
04:37I slowly withdrew my soul shadow from beside her demon core.
04:41I would no longer press close.
04:43I would no longer rely on her.
04:45I no longer cared for such poison-lave tenderness.
04:48Mephira gently placed her fingertips over her belly.
04:51Her tone so tender, it seemed to drip with honey.
04:53Good child, once Mother brings down Astaroth and sits upon the seventh lord's seat,
04:57the next time you reincarnate, you will be the most noble princess of the abyss,
05:03with countless demons at your command.
05:06Noble.
05:06I silently sneered inside the demon womb.
05:09A dignity bought with my five soul scatterings, an endless tearing torment.
05:15To me, it was worth nothing.
05:18I calmed myself and carefully sorted through the power structure of the seven layers of the abyss.
05:24The Lord of Wrath had twelve demon general heirs under his command and deep-rooted power.
05:29He would never care about an outsider soul.
05:33The Lord of Greed occupied the third layer of the abyss and even traded away his own children.
05:40He was the same kind as Mephira.
05:43The Lords of Envy, Sloth, and Pride all treated demon feces as expendable objects.
05:50Only one person caught my eye.
05:53The seventh lord, Astaroth.
05:55Guardian the seventh layer of the abyss.
05:58Commander of the ten thousand demon army.
06:01And childless for a thousand years.
06:03Mephira became pregnant, only to use the flesh and blood in her womb as a stepping stone in power struggles.
06:09But Astaroth, she truly wanted a child of her own.
06:14I made up my mind.
06:16Mephira was still finalizing the details of the frame-up with the blood priest.
06:21Every sentence revolved around how to take my life and pave her smooth path to becoming a lord.
06:26I sealed my soul awareness tightly, refusing to listen to even a shred of her false affection.
06:32I could not immediately escape this demon womb.
06:34My soul was bound by the laws of the abyss.
06:37Only when Mephira's and Astaroth's demonic powers intertwined, could I follow the flow of power and rush into another womb.
06:45For the next few days, I could only remain hidden inside Mephira's body.
06:50Day after day, she pretended to drink of some demon spring water and repeatedly stroked her lower abdomen.
06:55Be good. Endure a little longer. This will be the last time you suffer.
06:59But the moment she turned around, she summoned the blood priest and repeatedly checked the doses of the shadow portion,
07:06calculating how to push all the blame onto Astaroth.
07:08Through scraps of idle chatter from servants and blood priests inside the demon panace,
07:13I pieced together Astaroth's full image bit by bit.
07:17She came from the abyss-born ancient demon race, born from magma itself.
07:23Her nature was fierce yet straightforward, and she disdained schemes and frame-ups.
07:30Her 10,000 demon army had guarded the abysmal rift for a thousand years,
07:35resisting countless attacks from the angelic legions and earning its outstanding military quazas.
07:40The demon king feared the master to demand the military power in her hands.
07:45On the surface, he granted her the title of Seventh Lord, but secretly, he planted a curse upon her.
07:52That curse did not harm her life.
07:55It only left her childless for a thousand years, preventing any demon fetus from ever forming.
08:02Everyone in the palace said it was His Majesty the Demon King who secretly acted,
08:06severing the ancient demon race's chance to continue its bloodline.
08:10Comparing the two, the difference was obvious.
08:14Mephira's pregnancy meant treating her flesh and blood as a sacrifice for climbing higher.
08:19If Astaroth could conceive a demonic fetal, she would only devote everything to protecting that child.
08:25If I stayed with Mephira, only soul destruction awaited me.
08:29Only by going into Astariak's roof could I truly be born.
08:34On the ninth day, the Abyssal Council received the Demon King's decree.
08:38Thren days later, the seven lords would gather in the Abyssal Royal Palace
08:41to discuss countermeasures against the angelic legion's invasion.
08:45Mephira sat before an Oxtian mirror, carefully tracing her brows with demon blood.
08:51The curve of her lips made me shudder, and Nuzia hurriedly lifted the bone curtain and rushed into the inner
08:56hall.
08:57Duke, the Demon Ming's decree has been issued.
08:59At dawn three days from now, all lords must attend the Abyssmun Council.
09:03Mephira's hand, holding the demon bloodstone, paused.
09:06A green glow instantly lit up in her eyes.
09:08She put down the demon bloodstone, lowered her head to look at her lower abdomen, and hid blades in her
09:13smile.
09:15Truly?
09:15Absolutely true.
09:17The Demon King's special envi personally delivered the decree.
09:21Curled inside the scorching fetal felm, I saw her thoughts with perfect clarity.
09:27In her heart, she was only calculating how to use the gathering of all the lords at Abyssmun Conquets to
09:33confirm the charge that Astaroth, out of Jeldys, had harmed the demon fetus.
09:38She raised her hand and gently stroked her belly, her tone light.
09:41What a heaven-sent opportunity.
09:44With the majesty, the demon Codging already has misconscience about the ancient demon race.
09:48With this performance, I will make sure Astaroth can never rise again.
09:51Her mind was filled with how to use this pregnancy of mine to destroy a star axe and clear the
09:58obstacle to the seventh lord's position.
10:01But I was calculating something else.
10:03At the Abysmal Council three days later, all seven lords would be present, and Astaroth would certainly attend.
10:09Mephira would definitely take the initiative to approach and create a chance for demonic power contact.
10:15That would be my only window of escape.
10:18Mephira was still facing the Obsidian Mirror, repeatedly rehearsing the posture of falling after being struck,
10:23softly practicing how much tremor to put into her sobbing accusation.
10:26She smiled smugly, ambition burning in her eyes as if victory were already hers.
10:31Silent in the depths of the pitch-black fetal membrane, I also quietly curved my soul body into a smile.
10:37She was hoping to bring down Astaroth in one strike, but I was hoping to use this carefully planned scheme
10:43to completely break free from her cage.
10:45This time, I would never again become a sacrifice in a struggle for power.
10:51Three days later, at dawn, Sulphiris Mist turled through the Abyssin Royal Hall.
10:57The Demon King sat upon the Bone Throne, his seven demonic eyes sweeping over those below, his pressure as heavy
11:05as a mountain.
11:06Below him, the seven lords took their seats in order of rank.
11:09Demonic flames burned silently around the hall, casting shifting light over the runes on every face.
11:13The Lord of Wrath spoke first, his voice like molten boulders rolling, declaring that he would dispatch three squads of
11:19demon generals to support the Abysmian Rift.
11:21The Lord of Greed gave a sinister laugh and suggested that all lords hold their forces back, waiting until the
11:28angelic army exhausted its supply of holy light before striking.
11:32The Lord of Envy cut in with a sarcastic tone, accusing the Lord of Wrath of trying to monopolize the
11:38Battle of Gertz and seize the Demon King's rewards for himself.
11:42Mephira sat at the lowest seat.
11:44From the moment she entered the hall, her hand had never left her lower abdomen.
11:49She deliberately slowed her movements, frowning from time to time, pretending that the demonic fetal was unstable.
11:57Every gesture reminded everyone present, I am carrying a demonic feudus.
12:01Something could happen to me at any moment.
12:03The surrounding lords kept glancing sideways at her.
12:07Some smired, while others calculated in silence.
12:10Inside the demonic womb, I watched coldly, with only mockery left in my heart.
12:14No one knew that the soul within her belly had already been priced by her as an offering.
12:17The Demon King raised his hand slightly.
12:19His seven demonic eyes turned together towards Astaroth at the far end, his voice like thunder rolling through the Abyss.
12:25Astaroth, when will your 7th Legion march to the Rift?
12:28Astaroth wore black demomin armor.
12:30Her brows and eyes carried the cold sharpness of the ancient demon race.
12:34Hearing the question, she rose calmly and struck her right fist to her chest in a military lute.
12:39Her voice was steady, like dark currents beneath the Abyss.
12:42Your Majesty, the 7th Legion has already set up 12 defensive lines around the Rift.
12:47If the Angelic Army dare cross the boundary, I will personally lead my guards to meet them,
12:52and will not allow them to take even half a step into the Abyss.
12:55Hearing this, the Demon King nodded slightly.
12:58I have never doubted the combat strength of the ancient demon race.
13:02Mephira turned her head and glanced at Astaroth, a flash of jealousy and contempt darting through her eyes.
13:08Through the bloodline connection, I sensed the malice sprudging in her heart.
13:12She hated Astaroth's open and fearless bearing even more,
13:15and hated that Astaroth commanded the Legion of 10,000 Demons, held the Demon King's trust,
13:20and blocked her path to becoming the 7th Lord.
13:22Moments later, the Demon King waved his hand to signal a recess.
13:26The Lords rose from their seats and headed toward the Sulphur banquet in the side hall.
13:31Mephira deliberately slowed her steps, blending into the crowd, her gaze fixed tightly on Astaroth's back.
13:38At the entrance of the side hall, demonic mist surged.
13:41The moment had come.
13:43Mephira's foot suddenly slipped, and she deliberately pitched forward, crashing straight toward Astaroth's back.
13:49She cried out,
13:50Ah!
13:50In a perfectly calculated, theatrical manner.
13:53Anyone watching would assume that Astaroth had deliberately used demonic power to repel her.
13:57But despite all her calculations, she had missed the most important point.
14:01Astaroth had been born from MAGA and had fought for a thousand years.
14:05Her reflexes far surpassed those of ordinary abysmal demons.
14:08She did not even turn around.
14:09The demonic wings on her back suddenly unfurled, and the wingtip precisely touched Mephira's shoulder,
14:15penning her firmly in place so she could not fall even an inch.
14:18The falling act Mephira had rehearsed countless times failed on the spot.
14:22The pained expression she had hastily forced onto her face froze there,
14:25and for a moment, she stood stunned and at a loss.
14:28This was it.
14:29The instant Mephira's shoulder touched the demonic wing,
14:32Astoroth's power flowed along the wingtip into Mephira's body,
14:35separated from the fetal film where I was by only a thin barrier of demonic energy.
14:38For a single instant, the shackles of the Abyssin Law loosened.
14:41I clenched my soul teeth and forced my way through the demonic wound barrier inside Mephira,
14:45the barrier that had imprisoned me for five lifetimes.
14:47I transformed into a stream of dark golden soul light and rushed madly along the channel
14:51where the two powers met, toward Astoroth.
14:53Mephira froze while holding onto Astoroth's demonic wing,
14:57her lips trembling, unable to utter a word for a long time.
15:00The sudden emptiness in her belly made her pupils conracked sharply.
15:03She had felt it.
15:04Something had completely vanished from within her.
15:06Astoroth withdrew her demonic wing and glanced back,
15:09her tone carrying a hint of impatience.
15:12Joke Mephira, why are you so careless when walking?
15:15The ground of the Abyss is uneven.
15:17Since you are carrying a demonic fetus, you should watch yourself.
15:19Mephira heard none of the advice.
15:21Her heart was filled only with rage that her plan had failed once again,
15:25and panic from the strange emptiness in her belly.
15:27She gave a hasty bow and hurried back into the crowd,
15:29lowering her head to stare fixically at her flat abdomen as the demonic wounds in her pan flickered,
15:34and I had already crashed fully into Astoroth's empty, burning hot wound.
15:38A wave of demonic power, as scorching as lava yet gentle, wrapped around me,
15:41the first blazing warmth I had never felt in five lifetimes.
15:44The warmth of manga seeped through the demonic wound,
15:46and every fragment of my soul began to relax.
15:49Curled in the darkness, irrepressible joy surged through my heart.
15:53I had finally escaped.
15:55The Abyssin Council soon ended,
15:57and the Demon King hosted a lava banquet in the Royal Hall.
16:01All seven lords attended.
16:04Mephira deliberately made herself look weak.
16:07Holding a cup of Abyssmun Blood Wine,
16:10she slowly walked up to Astoror with a harmless smile on her face.
16:15Mephira suddenly threw herself backward,
16:17and the Blood Wine cup in her hand smashed heavily against the obsidian floor.
16:21One hand clutched her lower abdomen as she fell straight to the ground,
16:24and her surreal cries instantly echoed through the entire Royal Hall.
16:28My demonic fetus!
16:30Astoroth, why did you use demonic power to strike me and harm the child in my womb?
16:36Mephira curled up on the ground,
16:37and a large of dark purple seek would need a scent from shocking to behold.
16:40My child, if anything happens to the demonic fetus in my womb,
16:44how will you answer to His Majesty the Demon King?
16:47The Demon King strode down from the Bone Throne,
16:50his seven demonic eyes sharp as blades as they locked straight onto Astorian.
16:56Astoroth, did you injure her?
16:59Astoroth took half a step back,
17:00her expression calm and undisturbed,
17:02and spoke neither humbly nor upholy,
17:04Your Majesty, I never touched her in the slightest.
17:07She deliberately threw himself backward.
17:10The purple liquid on her skirt spread wider and wider,
17:13and the lords began whispering among themselves.
17:15The Lord of Envy, seated at the side,
17:18carefully examined the liquid on the ground and suddenly spoke,
17:22cutting through the chaos.
17:24Mephira, forgive my bluntness.
17:26The liquid seeping from your sumer skirt is far too worthless,
17:29and its color is not quite like any demonic fetal blood I have seen.
17:34It looks more like the juice of crushed abysmium leeches.
17:37Your Majesty,
17:39the Blood Priest used blood to venance earlier
17:41and said that what I carry in my women is a royal-grade demonic fetus
17:43with an ancient demon mark.
17:45Hearing the words royal-grade demonic fetus,
17:47the demon mong's face darkened further.
17:50He straightened and gave a heavy command.
17:52Summon the Abyssal High Priest, immediately.
17:55The Abyssal High Priest,
17:56clad in bone armor,
17:57slowly entered the royal hall.
17:58The entire hall fell silent,
18:00and every gaze landed on Mephira.
18:02Duke Mephira's demonic power is stable,
18:04and her demonic core is full.
18:06There is not the slightest sign of a damaged demonic fetus.
18:10Moreover, there is no soul fluctuation in the Duke's womb at all.
18:14She has never truly been carrying a demonic puke.
18:17The hall fell so deathly silent
18:19that even a falling meal could be heard.
18:22The dark purple leet juice all over the ground
18:24made Mephira's face look pale as paper.
18:26The Demon King stood in the hall,
18:28the pressure around him sinking to its limit
18:29as the anger he had suppressed for days exploded at once.
18:33Enough!
18:34His deep shout silenced the clamor in the hall.
18:36Distest filled the Demon King's eyes
18:39as he raised his hand and ordered,
18:40Take Mephira and her accomplice, the Blood Priest,
18:43to the Abyssal Purgatory.
18:45Interrogate them under severe torture.
18:47The guards of the demonic hall strode forward
18:49and roughly hauled up the limp Mephira.
18:52She struggled and cried,
18:53repeatedly insisting that she carried a demonic fetus.
18:56But the High Priest's conclusive diagnosis
18:58had already blocked every excuse.
19:01My soul felt not the slightest ripple,
19:03nor the slightest pity.
19:04Across five reincarnations,
19:06I had sincerely rushed into her womb every time,
19:08only to receive four deaths
19:09of complete soul destruction in return.
19:11Seeing her current situation
19:13only filled my heart with satisfaction.
19:15The sulfurous flames of Abyssal Purgatory
19:18burned for three full days,
19:20and the screams from torture
19:21faintly drifted through the layers of molten rock.
19:24The Blood Priest could not endure
19:26even half an incense stick's time
19:27before confessing everything.
19:29She confessed how,
19:31in the previous four lifetimes,
19:32Mephira had coaxed her
19:33into preparing sacrificial arrays
19:35and personally extracting the soul
19:36from the womb to frame others.
19:38And this fifth time,
19:39how Mephira had pretended to be pregnant,
19:41intending to frame a Starok
19:43at the Abyssal Council
19:44to topple the ancient demon race
19:46in one move
19:46and clear her path
19:48to becoming the Seventh Lord.
19:49With the physical evidence,
19:50the remains of Abyssal leeches
19:51and traces of Shadow Potion
19:53was all submitted
19:53and laid before the Demon King.
19:55When the Demon King learned
19:56that Mephira had personally sacrificed
19:57her own flesh and blood
19:58five times for power,
19:59he denounced her in court
20:01as having extinguished
20:01all demonic heart
20:02and being unworthy
20:03of a noble of the Abyss.
20:04A Demon King's decree
20:05was issued on the spot.
20:08Mephira's ducal title
20:09was abolished.
20:10All her demonic powers
20:11stripped away
20:12and she was cast
20:13into the ever-frozen ice prison
20:15at the bottom of the Abyss.
20:17The farce ended
20:18and everyone in the hall dispersed.
20:20The Demon King looked at Astror,
20:22who had remained calm
20:23and composed throughout,
20:24and a complex emotion
20:25flashed through his demonic eyes.
20:27He dismissed the attendants
20:28around him and walked alone
20:29into Astror's seventh demonic hall.
20:31The Demon King raised his hand,
20:33dark golden demonic power
20:35coiling around his fingertips,
20:37and gently placed it
20:38over her flat abdomen.
20:40Inside her womb,
20:41I clearly sensed that touch.
20:43The Demon King was probing.
20:45Immediately afterward,
20:46I felt Astrorok
20:48instinctively tighten her arms.
20:49The Demon and King
20:50withdrew his hand,
20:52remained silent for a moment,
20:54said nothing,
20:54and turned to leave.
20:56For the first time
20:58in five lifetimes,
20:59I experienced what it felt like
21:01to be shielded behind someone.
21:03Not used.
21:05Not sacrificed.
21:07Protected.
21:08She lowered her head
21:09and stared at her lower admin,
21:11her fingertips trembling slightly
21:13as she placed them over it.
21:14That faint soul flaberation
21:16that did not belong
21:17to her demonic core.
21:19Astroros stood still
21:20for a long time
21:21before suddenly raising her hand
21:22to summon an Abysmian priest.
21:24Perform blood divination for me.
21:27Now.
21:28Congratulations, my lord.
21:29Joyous congratulations.
21:31A demonic fetus
21:32has indeed formed in your womb.
21:34Its fetal aura is stable,
21:36and its soul is full.
21:37This,
21:38this is the sign
21:39of a royal-grade demonic fetus.
21:41She stood there dazed,
21:43her eyes reddening instantly.
21:45Good child.
21:46You came.
21:48From now on,
21:49your mother is here.
21:50No matter how vast the abyss is,
21:52no one will be able
21:53to harm you in the slightest.
21:55In the next moment,
21:57Astorak issued orders,
21:59delivering three iron-bloodied commands
22:01in succession.
22:03Sir,
22:03anyone in the Abyss
22:05who dared secretly harm
22:07the demonic fetus in her womb
22:08would be considered an enemy
22:10of the ancient demon race,
22:12and no mercy would be shown.
22:14Curled inside the burning hot fetal meld,
22:16my soul,
22:17once constantly tense and guarded,
22:19finally relaxed completely,
22:20the endless demonic crystals
22:21sent into the hall
22:22emitted gentle demonic power,
22:24wrapping around my soul
22:25day after day
22:26and repairing the cracks
22:26left by five lifetimes of tearing.
22:28Now,
22:29inside Astorak's womb,
22:30there was only peace and warmth,
22:32but Astorak kept none of it
22:33for herself.
22:34Every rare demonic medicine
22:35was brewed into fetal stabilizing tonners
22:37and used entirely
22:38to nourish me in her womb.
22:39At the bottom of the abyss,
22:40deep within the ever-frozen ice prison,
22:42the news eventually got through.
22:44Mephara,
22:45stripped of her demonic power,
22:46curled disrableed
22:47inside the ice crystal cage.
22:49When she heard that
22:50Astorak's pregnancy
22:51had been confirmed,
22:52she went completely mad on the spot,
22:53but she had personally destroyed
22:55the mother-daughter bond
22:56five times.
22:57Now,
22:57no matter how much regret she had,
22:59there was no longer
22:59the slightest chance
23:00to make amends.
23:01The news that
23:02Astorak courted
23:03a demon fetus
23:04spread throughout the abyss,
23:05stirring jealousy
23:06among all factions,
23:07and all kinds of secret schemes
23:09followed one after other.
23:10The Lord of Envy
23:11sent an envoy
23:12with a box of seemingly precious
23:13abyssment mock fruits,
23:15claimed they were
23:16nourishing supplements
23:17for stabilizing the fetus.
23:18Astorak's captain of the guard
23:20cut one open on the spot,
23:22and dense swarms
23:23of soul-develoring larvae
23:24crawled out of the flesh.
23:26Astorak saw through
23:27the sinister intent
23:28behind these petty tricks
23:30at a glance.
23:31She immediately captured
23:32every secret attacker
23:33and bound them
23:34in abyssian chains.
23:36As turmoil rose
23:37outside the hall,
23:38I clearly sensed
23:39the malice
23:40from the outside world
23:41rushing towards me
23:42while inside the womb.
23:43Instinctively,
23:44I curled up
23:44in the demonic fattus,
23:46and my soul fluctuation
23:47suddenly became
23:48chaotic and uneasy.
23:50Astorak sensed
23:50the movement
23:51in her belly
23:51almost instantly.
23:52She bent down
23:53close to her abdomen,
23:54lowering her deep voice
23:56until it was
23:56extremely soft and gentle.
23:58Aren't I afraid?
23:59Mother is here.
24:00Even if the abyss collapses,
24:02no one will be able
24:03to harm you
24:03in the slightest.
24:05Warmth flowed
24:06from her demonic core
24:07into the fetal film,
24:08and my restless soul
24:10slowly calmed,
24:11as if being held steadily
24:13by an invisible hand.
24:14A few days later,
24:16a letter written in blood
24:17on a shard of ice
24:18was delivered
24:18from the ever-frozen ice pist.
24:20Mephara had bribed
24:21an ice prison guard
24:22to secretly send it
24:24into the seventh demonic hall.
24:26In Femint,
24:27she falsely claimed
24:28that she still held
24:29a mud-darter soul bond,
24:30and that,
24:31as long as Astorov
24:32allowed her to come close once,
24:33she could transfer
24:34her remaining soul power
24:35to the demonic fetus.
24:37In Tralift,
24:38she harbored evil intent.
24:40Once close,
24:41she planned to tear open
24:42the final sacrificial array,
24:44offer my soul
24:45completely to the abyss,
24:46and use it
24:47to secure her own escape.
24:48Astorov had only read
24:49two lines
24:50before the ice shard
24:51exploded into fragments
24:52in her pawn.
24:53Her eyes were cold
24:54as she immediately
24:55instructed her guards
24:56that from then on
24:57anything or any letter
24:58sent from the ice prison
24:59was to be burned at once.
25:00If any ice prison guard
25:02dared pass messages
25:03from Mephara again,
25:04they would be killed
25:05without mercy.
25:05In the days that followed,
25:07Astorov declined
25:08most abysmian military
25:10and political meetings,
25:11spending most of her time
25:13guarding guarding
25:13the demonic hall.
25:14When she had free time,
25:16she would sit beside
25:17the lava waterfall
25:18and softly tell me stories
25:20of the abyssal rift.
25:21Her tone was soft
25:22and peaceful,
25:23forming a huge contrast
25:24with the cold,
25:25sharp attitude
25:25she showed others.
25:26Day after day,
25:28nourished by gentle demonic power,
25:29the fragments of my soul
25:30viewed piece by piece,
25:31the outlines of my limbs
25:32formed little by little,
25:33and a complete demonic feel
25:35slowly grew.
25:36Quietly feeling
25:37this unique favoritism
25:38and protection,
25:39I became utterly certain
25:41in my heart,
25:42this time,
25:43I would not die again.
25:46Days passed steadily.
25:48Remembering that Mephara
25:49had once made
25:50military contributions
25:51to the abyss
25:52and hearing that she screamed
25:53madly every day
25:54in the ever-frozen ice prison,
25:56the demon king
25:56felt a trace of pity.
25:57He specially permitted
25:58the abyssal high priest
25:59to visit the ice prison
26:00and offer some words
26:01of persuasion.
26:02Canding the high priest arrive,
26:04Mephina rushed forward
26:05welt on the ice,
26:06wailing aloud
26:07about the obsession
26:07buried in her heart
26:08for years.
26:09In her heart,
26:10she believed that
26:11only by become a lord
26:12and hold power
26:13over life and death
26:14could she finally stop
26:15living at the mercy
26:16of others.
26:17She had always naively
26:18believed that
26:19after each sacrifice
26:20of the fetal soul,
26:21there would still be
26:22another chance
26:23to make up for it.
26:24She had never considered
26:25that once a soul
26:26was sacrificed to the abyss,
26:27it became part
26:28of the abyss itself,
26:29with no possibility
26:30of being retrieved.
26:31A blood bond
26:32has never worked me
26:33up by making up
26:34for it next time.
26:35You personally sacrificed
26:36your own flesh and blood
26:37five times,
26:38severing the mother-daughter bond
26:39again and again.
26:40The laws of the abyss
26:41have already carved
26:42your sins into your soul,
26:43never to be erased
26:44for eternity.
26:45Your current fate
26:46is entirely self-inflicted.
26:48No amount of regret
26:49can change anything now.
26:51She finally realized
26:53that what she had lost
26:54had never been
26:55a sacrificial tool
26:56to be used.
26:57It was her own flesh
26:58and blood,
26:59who had wholeheartedly
27:00rushed towards her,
27:01relied on her,
27:02and had not given up on her
27:04through five lifetimes.
27:06In the seventh demotic hall,
27:07I still had a faint
27:08bloodline connection
27:09to Mephira
27:10and vaguely sensed
27:11the grief and regret
27:12surging in the ice
27:12of prison,
27:13but my soul remained
27:14completely unmoved.
27:16But I would never forgive her
27:17for using my life
27:18again and again
27:18to pave her path to power.
27:20A few late words of regret
27:21could not offset
27:22five lifetimes of torment.
27:24I have never owed her anything.
27:25There was no hatred before
27:26and there is no resentment now.
27:28I only wish to protect
27:29the child in my womb.
27:30Everyone else
27:30has nothing to do with me.
27:32No one cared.
27:34Reports from the Abyssic Rift
27:35were sent to the Royal Hall
27:36in patches,
27:37but among the Abyssic nobles,
27:39voices calling for
27:40Asterac's as a beach
27:41grew louder and louder.
27:42The Lord submitted Mariel's
27:44one after the other,
27:45implying that Asterac
27:46in front of the Demon King,
27:47the Lord of Greedy,
27:48said sartistically,
27:49The ancient demon race
27:51already has an ancient bloodline.
27:53If they gain another
27:54royal-grade demonic fetus,
27:57then in the future,
27:58will this abyss belong
27:59to your majesty
28:00or to the ancient demon race?
28:02The Demon King had long
28:04been wary of the ancient
28:05demon race's military power
28:06and under the constant
28:08precation of his quarters,
28:09his suspicion grew deeper.
28:11A few days later,
28:12the Demon King made a special
28:13visit to the seventh demonic hall.
28:15On the surface,
28:16he was there to visit
28:17the demonic fetus.
28:18In reality,
28:19every word concealed a warning.
28:20He sat in the Oxtidian mainlal
28:22and spoke in circles,
28:23repeatedly hinting that
28:24Asterac should restrain
28:25the expansion of the
28:26ancient demon race
28:27and hand over half the troops
28:28guarding the Rift defense lines
28:30so as not to unsettle
28:31the Abyssal nobles.
28:32Asterac saw through the suspicion
28:33in the Demon King's heart
28:35immediately,
28:36yet she did not yield
28:37in the slightest.
28:38She stood,
28:39her demonic wings
28:40slightly spread,
28:41and replied calmly,
28:42neither humble nor arrogant,
28:44guarded the Rift
28:45for a thousand years.
28:46All I ever wished for
28:47is a safe child.
28:48Itomer had the slighted
28:49ambition to den power.
28:50For generations,
28:51the ancient demon race
28:52has died on the Rift defense lines.
28:54Our flames have burned away
28:56every invasion of the Angelic army,
28:58protecting the entire abyss
28:59from being illuminated
29:00by Hokely light.
29:01I hope your majesty
29:02will not listen to the slander
29:03of penny people
29:04and chill the heart
29:05the soldiers fighting
29:05blood-soaked battles
29:06on the Rift front.
29:07During their conversation,
29:09I sensed the malice
29:10and probing hidden
29:10in the Demon King's words.
29:12My soul suddenly blew uneasy
29:13and fluctuated vitantly.
29:15A stare-off instinctively
29:16wrapped both arms tightly
29:17around her lower abdomen,
29:18her demonic wings
29:19spreading fully
29:20to shield her belly
29:21in shadow.
29:22Ignoring the Demon King's
29:23authority completely,
29:24she raised her eyes
29:25and looked straight
29:25into those seven
29:26demonic pupils.
29:27Whoever dares harm
29:28the child in my womb
29:29will be an enemy
29:30of the entire
29:31ancient demon race.
29:32I will give everything,
29:33even if I must bear
29:34your majesty's wrath
29:35to protect her completely.
29:37Her desperate,
29:38cub-protecting stance
29:39made her look like
29:41an enraged,
29:41ancient demonic dragon.
29:43That day,
29:44the demon no longer
29:45mentioned handing over
29:46military power.
29:47Instead,
29:48he ordered all supplies
29:49to the seven demonic hall
29:50restored and capped a decree
29:52to the entire abyss.
29:53No one was allowed
29:54to privately slammer
29:55in the seven lord's whim.
29:56Violagers would be cast
29:58in the lava purgue.
29:59Warmth wrapped layer
30:00upon layer around my soul.
30:02An asterisk determination
30:03to face the Demon King's
30:05pressure for me
30:05was clearly carved
30:06into my spirit.
30:08In the past five lifetimes,
30:09no one had ever been willing
30:11to withstand
30:11even the slightest storm for me.
30:13Only she was willing
30:14to face the Demon King's
30:15suspicion the court's
30:16attacks for me,
30:17even if it meant
30:18becoming enemies
30:19with the entire abyss.
30:20All the remaining unease
30:21in my heart
30:22completely vanished.
30:23I quietly lay dormant
30:24in her womb,
30:25peacefully awaiting
30:26the day I would
30:27break free and be born.
30:28Only three days remained
30:29before I would
30:30break the wit and be born.
30:31The entire seventh demonic hall
30:33was under strict guard,
30:34with layers of demon mangers
30:35and heavy troops
30:36stationed inside and out.
30:37Inside the ever-frozen
30:38ice prison,
30:39Mephira learned
30:40from the guard's whispers
30:41that I was about to be born,
30:42and she went completely mad.
30:44She bit open her wrist
30:45with her teeth
30:46and used the last remnants
30:47of her demonic blood
30:48to corrode one ice pole
30:49of her cage.
30:50Then she blended
30:51into the ice prison's
30:52servant team
30:53and secretly slipped
30:54to the outskirts
30:55of the seventh demonic hall.
30:57Hidden in her arms
30:58was a soul-breaking needle
30:59ground from fragments
31:00of her own demonic core.
31:01She planned to find a chance
31:03to sneak into the inner hall,
31:04stab it into Astaroth's abdomen,
31:06and destroy my soul,
31:07just as she took
31:08the pitch-black sharp
31:09soul-breaking needle
31:10from her sleeve.
31:11Astaroth's long-time
31:12captain of the guard
31:12seized her throat
31:13from behind.
31:14Caught red-handed,
31:15the soul-breaking panel,
31:16ice pillar fragments,
31:17and traces of demonic blood
31:18left from corroding the cage
31:19were all presented.
31:20The captain of the guard
31:20dragged her directly
31:21before Astaroth.
31:22Lord Astaroth,
31:23please grant me this.
31:25I only ask that you
31:26let me see my daughter
31:27in your womb once.
31:28Just once.
31:29I swear I will never
31:30hurt her again,
31:31and from now on
31:32I will spend the rest
31:32of my life
31:33making it up to her.
31:34Please me,
31:34I am her biological mother.
31:36Inside-eyed Astaroth's womb,
31:38I clearly heard
31:38her humble pleading,
31:39but my soul
31:40was not moved
31:41in the slightest.
31:41I gathered a wisp
31:42of soul transmission
31:43and sent it straight
31:44into Arsteros consciousness
31:45along the connected
31:46demonic power channel.
31:47She never truly wished
31:48for me to be born.
31:49Five pregnancies,
31:50and every time
31:51she used me
31:51as a stepping stone.
31:52Abyssal sacrificial array,
31:54crushing my demonic core,
31:55tearing my soul apart.
31:56After each time
31:57she shattered my soul,
31:58she would tell my remains
31:59that next time
31:59she would treat me well.
32:00But the next time,
32:01she did the same.
32:02Her so-called compensation
32:03is nothing but another use of me.
32:05I do not want to see her.
32:06I never want to see her again.
32:07After hearing the faint voice
32:09from within her womb,
32:10Astroffa's arms
32:11tightened slightly.
32:12She lowered her head
32:13and glanced
32:14at her swollen abdomen.
32:15When she raised her eyes again
32:17to look at Mephira
32:18kneeling on the ground,
32:19there was not
32:20the slightest softness in them.
32:22Drag her back
32:22to the ever-frozen ice prison.
32:26Reinforce the cage
32:27with three three layers
32:28of ice crystal
32:28and melt through
32:29all prison door chains.
32:31Mephira is never to take
32:32half a step
32:33out of the ice prison
32:34for eternity.
32:35Anyone who passes
32:36messages for her
32:37or helps her escape
32:39will be punished
32:39by association.
32:42Cut off all her hopes.
32:44The captain of the guard
32:46accepted the order
32:46and dragged the weeping,
32:48wailing Mephira
32:49out of the seventh
32:50demonic hall.
32:51As night deepened,
32:52waves of faint energy
32:53suddenly pulsed
32:54from within me.
32:55It was the sign of birth.
32:58Astroffa kept one hand
32:59steadily on her constantly
33:00moving abdomen,
33:01her gaze firm as stone,
33:03quietly awaiting my birth.
33:05After enduring five
33:06lifetimes of wandering
33:07and suffering,
33:08I was finally about
33:09to welcome a new life
33:11of my own.
33:11The agony of childbirth
33:13swept through
33:14Astroffa's entire body.
33:15Dark purple sweat
33:16kept seeping from her forehead
33:18and the clothes beneath
33:19her demonic armor
33:20was soaked through.
33:21From beginning to end,
33:22she refused to loosen
33:23the hands protecting the feudis.
33:24Even when the pain
33:25made demonic runners
33:26across her body
33:27flicker wildly,
33:28she still guarded me
33:29firmly in her womb.
33:30She would not let out
33:32even one extra cry of pain,
33:33focused only on helping
33:34me break through safely.
33:36After an unknown length
33:37of time,
33:38deep yet clear soul resonance
33:39suddenly pierced through
33:40the entire seventh demonic hall.
33:42On the dome of the hall,
33:43ancient demon totems
33:44that had slept for a thousand years
33:45lit up at the same time
33:46with dark golden light,
33:47resonating with that soul cry,
33:49I was born safely.
33:51The gone hands
33:51of the ganchent demon priest
33:52lifted a dark,
33:53third demonic fate,
33:54and the fetal mall split
33:56inched by twint
33:56revealed a delicate little face.
33:58On my forehead
33:59appeared a faint,
34:00dark,
34:00golden ancient demon mark.
34:02The mark accumulated
34:03from a thousand years
34:04of underworld merit
34:05transformed into
34:05dark golden light
34:06faintly flowing around me,
34:08making everyone in the hall
34:09hold their breath.
34:10The abyssal high priest
34:11stepped forward
34:12to examine the demon mark.
34:13His skeletal fingers
34:14hovered above it
34:15as his ancient soul power
34:17resonated with it.
34:18After a long while,
34:19the high priest turned
34:20and knelt toward the demon king,
34:22his voice shaking
34:23the entire demonic hall.
34:25Your majesty,
34:27what appears on the young lord's forehead
34:29is the long lost
34:31ancient creation demon mark.
34:33One who possesses this mark
34:35is born able to command
34:36the primal power of the abyss.
34:38This life destiny
34:40is exceedingly noble,
34:41free of calamity and disaster,
34:43and bound for greatness.
34:44This is a blessing
34:45from the will of the abyss.
34:47Without the slightest hesitation,
34:49he issued a demon mings decree
34:50in public and granted me
34:52the title Dark Abyss.
34:54Endless demonic crystal mines,
34:56abyssal territories,
34:57and ancient demonic artifacts
34:57were all placed under my name.
34:59The richness of the rewards
35:00surpassed that
35:01of all royal offspring
35:02in the abyss.
35:03The Patriarch of the
35:04ancient demon race
35:05personally presented
35:06ancient demonic dragon bones
35:08mined from the depths
35:09of the abyssal rift
35:11and a shadow grinoir
35:12lost for 10,000 years.
35:14In public,
35:15he swore a blood oath.
35:17The entire ancient demon race
35:19would devote everything
35:20in this life
35:21to forever protect
35:22young muster Dark Abyss's safety.
35:24Astarok took the swaddling cloth
35:26and held me tightly in her arms,
35:28unwilling to let go
35:29even for a moment.
35:30Her eyes brimmed with the tenderness
35:31she had waited
35:32a thousand years for.
35:33Again and again,
35:34she lowered her head
35:35and softly called me Dark Abyss.
35:36There was not a trace of struggle
35:38or calculated in her voice,
35:39only motherly love
35:40in its purest form.
35:42Her fingertips
35:42gently brushed my cheek,
35:44her movements careful,
35:45as if touching
35:47the most precious treasure
35:48in the abyss.
35:49I lay in that burning hot
35:50yet soft embrace,
35:52quietly nestling against
35:53Starot from the perspective
35:54of a new demon
35:55wrapped in her unique
35:56and unreserved love.
35:57The piercing suffer
35:58of five lifetimes
35:59of wandering
36:00and soul destruction
36:01all vanished like smoke.
36:02In the past,
36:03I exhausted a thousand years
36:05of underworld merit,
36:06single-mindedly longing
36:07for the honor and luxury
36:09of becoming a lord's
36:10legitimate daughter,
36:11only to end up
36:12with endless torment.
36:13Now,
36:14I had taken the initiative
36:15to break free
36:16from the false shackles
36:17of blood
36:18and gained peace,
36:19safety,
36:20and heartfelt cherishing
36:21in return.
36:22The glory that truly
36:23belonged to me
36:24was finally held
36:25firmly in my hands.
36:28Astaroth indulged me
36:29to the utmost.
36:30She never taught me
36:30to please the powerful
36:31nobles of the abyss,
36:32nor did she ever
36:33let me wear myself
36:34in exchange for
36:35anyone's approval.
36:36She often held my hand
36:37as we walked past
36:37the lava waterfall,
36:39telling me I did not
36:40need to fear
36:40the demon king's authority,
36:42nor care about
36:43the expressions
36:43of the other lords.
36:44Behind me stood
36:45dozens of ancient
36:46demon generals
36:47from the entire
36:48ancient demon race,
36:49as well as the protection
36:51of the will of the abyss.
36:52You may live this life
36:54freely and boldly,
36:56exactly as you wish.
36:58When she said this,
36:59her demonic wings
37:00spread slightly,
37:02shielding me
37:02from the sparks
37:03splatting from
37:04the lava waterfall.
37:05I once spent
37:06a full thousand years
37:07of Hunworld merit
37:08just fight for a chance
37:09to be reborn
37:09as the legitimate
37:10daughter of a lord.
37:12Five times,
37:13I placed my hopes
37:14in Mephira,
37:15my biological mother
37:16connected by blood,
37:17and received only
37:18endless agony
37:19of soul destruction
37:20in return.
37:20Only when I broke free
37:21from the chains of blood
37:22and chose to enter
37:23that womb
37:24which had waited empty
37:25for a thousand years
37:26did I understand.
37:27Status,
37:28bloodline,
37:29and glory
37:29are all illusions.
37:30Someone willing
37:31to shield you
37:32from every storm
37:32in the world,
37:33to face the demon king's
37:35suspicion,
37:35the court's attacks,
37:37and the rumors
37:37of the abyss
37:38for you,
37:39even if it means
37:39becoming enemies
37:40with the whole world.
37:42Only such a person
37:43is the one true home
37:44in this life.
37:45There is no spring
37:46in the abyss,
37:47but beside the eternally
37:49burning lava pool
37:50of the seventh demonic hall,
37:51Asparas planted for me
37:53a black demonic flower
37:54she had brought back
37:55from the battlefield
37:56at the rift.
37:57The warm light of lava
37:58spread across
37:59the obsidian path.
38:01Astarok had not removed
38:02her demonic armor.
38:03She bent down,
38:04took my young hand,
38:05and slowly walked with me
38:06along the stone path
38:07where demonic flowers blossom.
38:08I suddenly let go
38:09of her hand
38:10and threw myself
38:11into her burning hot arbors,
38:12calling out Mother
38:13clearly in the ancient
38:14abysmal tongue
38:15I had just learned.
38:16She steadily spread
38:17her demonic wings
38:18and wrapped me tightly
38:19in them,
38:20her palm gently
38:21stroking my back.
38:22The coldness
38:23of her demonic armor
38:24and the warmth
38:25of her palm
38:26fell upon me
38:26at the same time.
38:27Those eyes
38:28that had fought
38:29for a thousand years
38:30held only tenderness now.
38:33The firelight of lava
38:35fell upon the two
38:36kitchers embracing
38:37each other,
38:38its warmth
38:39lingering endlessly.
38:41Blood has never been
38:42the shackle
38:42of family love.
38:44The one willing
38:45to give everything
38:45to protect you
38:46is the true home
38:48of this life.
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