After Dying for his Life, I Became the Abyss Queen Chapter 07
The crimson blood moon hung high above the Abyss’s vaulted ceiling.
I sat upon the Eternal Night Throne in the demon palace’s grand hall, watching coldly as the procession was escorted in by high–ranking demons and dragon guards.
The emblems of the Silvaris Clan and Shadow Dragon Clan looked dull and lifeless in the Abyss’s howling winds.
As the heavy obsidian doors thundered open, Roran and Drakon, along with several elders from the Elder Council, entered the hall.
The moment Roran lifted his head, he froze solid.
In just three months, this once–invincible Holy Paladin Commander looked like a man whose soul had Been hollowed out. His hair, once golden as sunlight, had turned a lifeless ashen gray from the backlash of gevered mate bonds.
When his gaze caught sight of me on the throne, crowned with the Abyss’s diadem, all the blood in his body seemed to freeze.
“Megan…” His voice trembled, fragile as cracked glass
“Kneel! You stand before the Dragon Queen of the Abyss!”
The Abyss Guard Captain below unleashed an earth- shattering roar. Ancient draconic pressure crashed down like a tsunami. Under this absolute bloodline
suppression, Drakon and those high–and–mighty elders were forced to their knees, cold sweat streaming down their faces.
Only Roran remained standing. He endured the bone- crushing pressure, staring at me with bloodshot eyes filled with desperate, wild hope.
“How interesting,” I toyed with a wisp of pure golden ancient flame at my fingertips, my tone lazy and cold. “Seeing your ‘old acquaintance,‘ the Holy Commander seems quite shocked?”
Roran finally collapsed to his knees as if his legs had been shattered, his voice thick with frantic pleading.
“Gods above… you’re alive. Megan, when the mate mark turned to ash, I thought you’d been completely consumed by the demon dragon… it tore my heart dut!”
The bond did break.” I rose to my feet, my black–gold dragon scale armor reflecting predatory light
beneath the blood moon. “But not from any ritual’s consumption. I severed it myself. The moment you left me in that killing array to save Zephyra.”
At that name, Roran’s face twisted with excruciating anguish.
“Megan, I know everything now! The whole truth!” He crawled forward on his knees, desperate as a drowning man clutching at straws. “Zephyra wasn’t pure–blooded at all–her blood is tainted with inferior wyvern lineage! The Abyss corruption was all fabricated by her!”
He looked up, his dead eyes flickering with madness. chained her in the dungeon with dragon–hunting shackles. I torture her daily with frost dragon flame! I‘ we torn off every shred of her hypocritical mask! Megan, I’m avenging you! I swear I’ll spend the rest of my life making this right. Please, just give me one more-‘
“Making it right?” I laughed softly, cutting off his #ambling. The sound echoed through the empty demon palace, laced with bone–deep mockery.
I descended the throne’s steps one by one, looking at him as though he were a revolting pile of ashes. “You think tearing apart the trash you once treasured somehow washes the blood from your hands?”
Roran froze, his face deathly pale.
“In my past life, at the Dragon God Temple, you burned me and our unborn child to ashes with dragon flame–all to protect your ‘true love.“” I leaned down, my voice dropping to a whisper only he could hear.
In this life, in that soul–chain array, you watched me walk toward the sacrificial light again.”
“Roran, across two lifetimes, you never chose me. Not once. Your so–called revenge doesn’t move me—it only makes me sick.”
“No… that’s not… Megan, I was deceived! I love you, I‘ ve always loved you…” Roran’s tears splashed onto the obsidian floor. The once–mighty dragon was reduced to groveling like a worm.
At that moment, a pitch–black shadow rippled from behind the throne. Abyss Lord Cassius’s towering
form materialized silently behind me. His arm wrapped possessively around my waist as dark crimson flames swept through the hall, freezing the very air.
Holy Commander,” Cassius’s low, gravelly voice dripped with bone–chilling menace, “you’re harassing my mate right in front of me. Tell me–do you think the Holy Dragon bloodline has lasted too long?”
Roran’s head snapped up, his gaze locking on our intertwined hands. There, the exclusive Abyss mate mark gleamed–far deeper and more powerful than any golden mark he’d ever placed on me.
He looked as though someone had ripped out his spine, his face instantly ashen.
“This can’t be… you can’t belong to him…” He shook violently, whimpering like a wounded animal.
I looked down at his collapse with utter indifference my gaze sweeping over Drakon and the equally pale Council elders.
“I declare, as Queen of the Abyss-” Ancient golden flames erupted from my palm, flooding the entire hall with light. “Roran and the Holy Dragon Clan are
hereby permanently barred from entering Abyss territory. Cross our borders even once, and I’ll have the Abyss dragons grind your arrogant bones to dust.”
“Now get out of my palace.”
Two massive Abyss dragon guards stepped forward, forcibly hauling Roran to his feet. He struggled like a madman, his fingers clawing bloody streaks across, the hard obsidian floor.
“Megan! Please don’t leave me… I’m begging you, just look at me! Don’t do this-!”
The heavy doors slammed shut with a thunderous boom, severing his broken wails and endless regret completely,
The hall returned to silence, only the eternal flames dancing on the walls,
Cassius leaned close to my ear, his low laughter sending tremors down my spine. “Satisfying, isn’t it, my Queen–watching him shatter like that?”
I turned toward his burning vertical pupils, my lips
curling into a smile of absolute control. “This is only the beginning. Everything they inflicted on me–I’ll make them repay it over an entire century.”