Perhaps guilty over the theft, Bobo tucked the Soul Crystal under his arm to hide it, as though he were really carrying a dog.
After one last look at the ruined city and its residents, Gabriel knew there was nothing he could do. He sighed and led everyone back the way they had come.
As mentioned before, Heaven was a special dimension within God's Domain. It was like a seven-layer burger. Why it had to be seven layers was beside the point for now, but Eden could be regarded as a passage connecting the different levels.
Yet, just as Lucifer had said, Heaven was boring as hell. There was no entertainment whatsoever; the only pastime was probably taking a stroll through Eden.
But although Eden was the only recreational place, not just anyone could enter it.
This was God's garden. In the past, aside from God Himself, only a few archangels could set foot here.
For a short while, it was fine, but after wandering around for a few hundred years, anyone would get tired of it. Back then, Lucifer's duties were guarding the Heavenly Fire and waiting for God's orders.
Whenever a new day arrived, he would go to Heaven's highest point and glance at the brazier that brought light. After that, he had nothing to do.
He could play in the water in Eden for a while, wash his wings, or talk to the flowers and trees. And just like that, another day passed.
Although the Bible recorded that he had once been God's eldest son and had acted in God's stead for a time, God had nothing to do most of the time either. After all, those hundreds of millions of miscellaneous angels were not being raised as ornamental animals.
That was how a stable system ought