CHAPTER 405: CHAPTER 405: OBLIVION

A long time ago, a really long time ago, during the time of Bethel the Lustful.

Back then, the lion race was still confined to a small galaxy, their prehistoric civilization barely covering a few planets.

Back then, their primary objective was to expand their numbers and increase their strengths.

The stronger the individual lion was, the longer it took for offspring to be born.

Bethel, the second Primordial, had made it his personal duty to make sure that the lion race numbers multiplied rapidly.

It was also at this time that the eighteen Lionhearts were prevalent. Unlike the modern-day lion civilization which had fourteen or fifteen lionhearts that were known about, this era had eighteen lionhearts, the original amount.

Alan’s sacrifice had led to the creation of eighteen lionhearts, so why did the modern era lion civilization only talk about fourteen or fifteen?

First, there was the Primordial Lionheart, the Lionheart that governed all others and embodied what it meant to be a pure and true lion. Only a Primordial Lion could directly access the power of the laws affiliated with the race.

Then there were the others. The fire lionheart was the most common, then the electric lionheart, war lionheart, earth lionheart, air lionheart, metal lionheart, spirit lionheart, magus lionheart, veggie lionheart, frost lionheart, fortune lionheart, space lionheart, and time lionheart.

These were the standard fourteen lionhearts that came after the Primordial Lionheart.

They were standard in the sense that they were fully stable and the possessors of such lionhearts could operate normally.

But there were eighteen, meaning three more were not fully accounted for.

These lionhearts were labeled forbidden as their presence was not considered...normal.

These lionhearts existed to be the weaknesses of the lions and pretty much everything that stood in their way.

They were strong, not necessarily unique, but very powerful and effective.

Anti-Lion Lionheart, Demonic Lionheart, and the Celestial Lionheart.

It had been a long time since any lion possessing these lionhearts appeared in the real world. They were either slumbering somewhere or traveling the universe and operating on their own terms

Most have forgotten how these lionhearts worked and the specific abilities that came with them.

These lionhearts were so incompatible with the nature of lions that it was incredibly hard for them to reproduce with any other lion or lioness.

Over time, they died out. Those who were strong enough preserved their lives in their own ways.

Usually, no one was worried about these forbidden lionhearts popping up all of a sudden.

But who would have expected that Derylia, the abomination of a son, would be born with the Demonic Lionheart?

Not only that, he was born with two hearts, one dragon, one lion. Coincidentally, his second heart was the Celestial Dragonheart.

Unlike the lions, Celestial Dragonheart was not forbidden, just extremely rare.

But the thing was that those two hearts possessed powers that fully opposed each other.

If it were any other being, they would have died a few minutes after their birth.

Alas, unfortunately for everyone who was going to be involved, Ibadon was not ordinary.

He was the son of a Primordial.

Ibadon was a hybrid, an abomination. Naturally, with his mother’s powers subtly stabilizing his body in her womb, these powers wouldn’t operate the same way they did in a regular creature’s body.

The two hearts within his body didn’t fight for dominance as they weren’t laws, just base universal powers. Instead, they automatically came to a compromise, fusing together to form a new power.

Under the guidance of Derylia’s subconscious control of the Law of Conquering, Ibadon’s powers changed.

They didn’t just form a new power, they gave Ibadon genius-level potential.

The Oblivion Heart was formed, fused from the two other hearts.

Right from birth, Ibadon lost the powers and features of the Demonic Lionheart and the Celestial Dragonheart, but he gained something far more incomprehensible.

Other sources suggested that Ibadon’s unique powers came from the fusion of his mother’s Law of Conquering and his grandfather’s Law of Destruction.

But those were just rumors and there was no way to confirm them as all the parties involved were long dead and gone.

Some would even say that Ibadon was more special than a Primordial, and his existence was significantly rarer.

At least, there have been nine different Primordial Lions and an unknown number of Primordial Dragons.

Both civilizations had recorded more than seven Primordials in their long history. But Ibadon was the first of his kind.

He wasn’t the first dragon-lion hybrid. Bethel had probably been responsible for the first few dragon-lions to ever appear.

But none of them were this broken as Bether never screwed the children of other Primordials like Derylia did with Sakan.

Ibadon was the first to be born with two opposing and extremely rare hearts.

This was no chimera, this was an abomination, an entity that should have never existed.

Due to a series of choices and decisions, he was born.

The events that occurred during his childhood only fueled his growth which led to him becoming so powerful.

Technically speaking, Ibadon was destined to be this lucky. The fortune lions of that time had sensed it after all, Ibadon’s existence had severely shifted the fortune stability of the entire civilization.

Back then, fortune lions would feel very uncomfortable around Derylia and sense heavy auras of misfortune.

The cause of those uncomfortable feelings was not Derylia herself, but the child, Ibadon.

What did it mean to be an abomination? Ibadon was the perfect definition.

From another point of view, Ibadon would be considered the main character of the universe.

All of that, all the events, the rarity of the lionhearts, the opposition of two powers, Derylia being a Primordial Lion, and many more had all contributed to the abomination that was currently devouring the Void Spill Galaxy.

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Ibadon, who had turned into a black hole, continued consuming everything around him, expanding his suction field and pulling in celestial objects.

His reasoning was simple. The Primordial was hiding somewhere in this galaxy. Instead of going around, looking at different corners, and risking being fooled again, he would just swallow the entire galaxy.

How could the Primordial Lion still escape in such a scenario?

Unfortunately, Ibadon’s decision meant that trillions of creatures would die and billions of stars would be lost.

Billions of stars? That was nothing to Ibadon. He would devour more if he had to.

Despite moving at warp speed, rushing to escape the galaxy, many arkships were too slow and ended up being pulled into the black hole.

Their material bodies were stripped of all information, broken down to the basic atoms before being converted into nutrients for the abomination.

The Oblivion continued to spread like a hungry blanket of darkness, devouring everything in its path.

As the lion kings burned all their power to make their arkships move faster, they began to feel dread.

What level of power did one need to reach for them to be able to swallow a whole galaxy?

They couldn’t imagine it as most of them were still tier 6 lions.

If they didn’t have any respect for Noel before, they definitely have now.

To think that Noel had fought this abomination. Although he didn’t win the fight, he still left Ibadon with serious injuries.

What kind of strength did Noel have to be able to injure a being that embodied Oblivion?

How was that even possible?

The first arkship to make it out of the galaxy was Exalon’s arkship. They had flown out of a one hundred and thirty thousand light-years-wide galaxy in less than a minute.

Even Exalon didn’t know that his arkship could move that fast.

Although more than fifty seconds had passed since everyone began escaping, it felt like an eternity.

Exalon was sure that those fifty seconds were longer than his entire life from birth to his current age.

As Exalon’s ship tore through the void at high speed, other arkships also broke out of the universe, barely escaping Ibadon’s might.

But the casualties were so many that it was disheartening.

Out of the more than ten thousand arkships that came to this galaxy to find the Primordial Lion, fewer than one thousand were left.

Eight hundred and fifty-three to be precise.

That was how many arkships were remaining.

Each arkship was very valuable and with the right modifications and energy input, could create fields that spanned multiple star systems.

Each of them took a lot of resources and time to build too.

Fortunately or unfortunately, Ma’abu’s arkship was part of those that managed to escape.

After creating some distance, Ma’abu and many others dared to look back to see what was left of the Void Spill Galaxy.

Nothing.

There was nothing but a shroud of emptiness there.

A whole galaxy had vanished today.

What would observers billions of light-years away think as they noticed this through their telescope?

That was none of the lions concern.

As for the culprit of all that had happened today, the mastermind.

He had long left the Void Spill Galaxy before Ibadon had appeared and was already quite far away.

Ibadon would soon discover his absence but Kael wasn’t worried about that... for now.

He had more immediate matters to attend to, like the new Primordial that had just been detected.

Another pulse had been detected, but it wasn’t detected by the lions.

It was detected by the wolves.