Reincarnated As A Lion In Another World-Chapter 598: His Oblivion Heart

"I killed the Primordial Lion!" Empress Elizabeth declared loudly.

She was ecstatic; she was beyond happy.

The bottom of her gown fell back majestically, matching the flowing movement of her dark hair.

Just as Elizabeth was laughing and declaring her kill like a mad woman, a streak of black light shot over from a distance.

As soon as it appeared, it was already in front of Elizabeth.

"What is it?" Ibadon asked casually.

If not that his private continent had been destroyed, he might have just ignored her summons.

After all, he wasn’t particularly in a good mood after he failed to capture the All-King.

He was still thinking of another scheme he could use. Right now, Ibadon was contemplating whether he should try to brute force his way into heaven or look for another means.

The traitors had let them know that a significant number of lion kings were now on Kael’s side. There was so much that even Ibadon wouldn’t be confident in fighting them.

It wasn’t like he was afraid of them individually even if they numbered up to a million lion kings.

What he was worried about was the technology and strange abilities those look kings would come with.

Three million lion kings during wartime could also be calculated as nine million arkships, more or less.

Who in their right mind would want to stand up to nine million arkships?

Ibadon would not let himself suffer for nothing if he wasn’t sure that he would achieve something from it.

So he had been thinking of a way to get to Kael once again. The All-King held the key to the complete extermination of the Lion Race, and Ibadon had to get to him for his goal to be reached.

Just now, when the guards called him that the Empress was summoning, Ibadon didn’t pay much mind to it and had just assumed that this little empress just wanted to talk about something.

Only for him to come here and hear a strange phrase.

"I killed the Primordial Lion!" Elizabeth declared again.

Ibadon had his hands folded in his humanoid form. His black cape billowing in the heavenly wind and his full red eyes staring into Elizabeth’s purple irises.

"What?" Ibadon asked, a little confused as he did not have any context.

"Ibadon dearie, I just killed the Primordial Lion, can you believe that?" Elizabeth was almost jumping in excitement.

In truth, what actually excited her wasn’t the possibility of killing Kael, but the fact that Ibadon may be happy with her.

Isn’t this what Ibadon wanted all along? To eliminate the lion race? In her eyes, she just removed one of Ibadon’s biggest obstacles.

He should be thanking her, he should be loving her, that was what she wanted.

"You killed the Primordial Lion?" Ibadon asked with skepticism.

"Yes," Elizabeth nodded.

"How?" He asked.

"I just..." Elizabeth began to explain to Ibadon what happened.

She described how she had been hoping that Kael would get close to one of her spies so that she could heavily injure him or kill him if possible.

She had not expected that Kael had also been hoping for her to remotely detonate the spy so that he could use that brief moment to drive his attack into the point of connection to harm her.

Maybe Kael was not aware that Empress Elizabeth was tier 7 and was much stronger than he could imagine.

Elizabeth spoke of how she retaliated, using the point of connection which had then been strengthened by Kael’s breach to send back her own attack.

According to her, Kael was utterly destroyed, turned to nothing. There was no trace of him anywhere.

She had seen it with her own senses how Kael’s skin and flesh were ripped away from his bones and how his golden bones were crushed and chipped away to dust.

Truly, there was nothing left of the All-King, so Elizabeth assumed that he was dead and that she was the one who killed him.

"Wait," Ibadon narrowed his eyes as they turned to a shade of blue, "You said that he dived straight into the explosion just to get to you?" He asked.

"Yes, very reckless of him, it cost him his life," Elizabeth nodded her head like a pecking chicken.

She slowly got closer to Ibadon as the latter dropped feet first on the ground.

"Ibadon dearie, let’s go inside to celebrate, wipe that look on your face okay. You know I don’t like seeing your eyes like that," Elizabeth reached out and tugged the edge of Ibadon’s gloves while pouting like a child.

Ibadon didn’t react to her antics, "The Primordial Lion isn’t reckless," Ibadon spoke his thoughts out loud.

"He can be many things, but he’s not reckless. At least, from my brief encounter with him, the way he stays vigilant even at his weakest state.

That is not the look of someone who could do something like standing firm at the center of an explosion.

Even his attacks, his escapes, the method he used to covertly enter the Battle Planet. These were all events engineered by someone who is very paranoid and cautious."

Ibadon unfolded his arms and took some steps forward. He wasn’t looking at Elizabeth but staring blankly at the entrance of the throne hall.

"Do you have any more spies in Leonine Heaven?" Ibadon asked.

Elizabeth nodded, "Yes, although they are not much against, what’s up?"

"Confirm from them before you rejoice," Ibadon said.

Elizabeth chuckled, "Don’t worry Ibadon dearie, I know what I saw. That Primordial Lion is dead.

The lion race should start another long wait for a new Primordial Lion to be born, hehehehe."

Ibadon shook his head, "I don’t want the Primordial Lion to die, not yet at least.

I don’t want the lions to have to wait for another Primordial Lion, I want to eliminate them in this era.

I need the Primordial Lion to be alive for that to happen, only then will I kill him myself..."

Elizabeth frowned, "And then what? You’ll kill yourself?" She asked, very displeased by Ibadon’s suggestive tone.

"Precisely," Ibadon nodded, a very faint smile coming on his lips, "I’ll be able to rest in peace. I shall die knowing that I fulfilled my purpose.

My immortality would not be wasted.

I would have rid the universe of the tyrannical scum."

Ibadon was genuinely happy just thinking about this.

Elizabeth sighed.

"Ibadon, why can’t you just let go? Many of us really care about you. Can’t you stay alive, just for us?

Just for me?"

Elizabeth’s tone implied the melancholic feeling she had welling up in her chest.

Ibadon’s cold blue eyes turned back to a full red color, emotion could now be seen in his eyes, "Don’t say that." He warned Elizabeth.

"Asking me to continue existing...

Do you hate me?" Ibadon asked.

He turned around and looked at the vast void and sky of the Draconic Heaven. For ten million years, this was the only place he could call his home.

Elizabeth shook her head quickly, "No no no!, I would never hate you, Ibadon."

"Then why do you want me to live?" Ibadon asked, he stood straight and tall, as if he were a pillar bearing the weight of countless eras. 𝘧𝓇ℯ𝑒𝓌𝑒𝑏𝓃𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘭.𝒸ℴ𝓂

"Because...because..." Elizabeth choked on her words. She didn’t know how to say it. Even though she knew that Ibadon already knew her feelings for him, she still couldn’t bring herself to say it.

She was afraid that she would regret confessing her true feelings. She felt she would just be wasting her time.

"This universe is heartless, it is indifferent, it doesn’t care at all about the life and death of the inhabitants.

The universe just works with one motive in its mind.

Continuity.

The only way we can escape these strings that the universe uses to control us is to die.

The only way I can truly rest, the only way I can forget about everything.

Ten million years, my Oblivion Heart has been nudged tirelessly by the Will.

My memories, my experience, as bad as they were, were nothing more than necessities to push me toward my purpose.

I am merely fulfilling the purpose that was given to me before my birth.

And the only way I can escape my constraints is to cease to exist.

I want to feel the embrace of nothingness Elizabeth. I want to stop worrying about things that don’t matter, I want to forget all those friends and families I lost ten million years ago.

The more I stay alive, the more I prolong my suffering.

So I ask you, do you hate me? For only someone who doesn’t cherish my rest would require me to continue existing."

Elizabeth was silent. Ibadon’s words would be difficult to understand unless she could live as long as he had.

"If you know the purpose you serve isn’t yours, why do you still do it? Why do you still chase the extinction of the lions?

Why not just let go?" Elizabeth lowered her voice and asked. She was sad.

Ibadon looked down at the shorter being. He saw the two tears that slid down her clear and smooth cheeks.

"Because whether the purpose is mine or not, the vengeance is mine,"