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The Empress Luna

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Was Lilith an accomplice of the Archdemons to bring her back here when Ravin had promised her that he would return her for good if she didn't like his love offering?

"The soul portal had taken too long for it to take effect, and my blood brothers had gone somewhere to get more sacrifices. Now that you are here, I guess the unicorns that I have procured from a young and naive Faerie from the Unseelie Court who had stroked a bargain with me in exchange for the sacrifice I asked for was effective."

Checking her cuticles as if the conversation had bored her, the High Priestess continued as she gave Luna a half-hearted shrug. "I gave the Faerie a limited access of Archdemon magic in exchange for the blood of two unicorns—aww, those poor innocent souls—as a sacrifice so that I can summon you back."

"I was merely helping my brothers get the particular wife they needed." Lilith blinked slowly and frowned, acting so innocent again. "The deaths of these innocent creatures are on you. Not mine."

Why did these Archdemons couldn't take responsibility for the creatures they have killed and kept on blaming her for it?

Did she ask to be transported back to Hell when it was their wish to drag her here for no reason?

She was happily leaving in the Vampire Realm with her husband.

What gave them the right to do this?

Luna wanted to shake her head but forget it.

She couldn't move.

These Archdemons were hard to understand.

They have twisted minds.

"You are---" As she gritted her teeth, Luna had paused before responding as she processed the information. "How come you have access with Archdemon magic?"

Luna's forehead wrinkled in confusion as she asked, uncertain. "And why are you here, Lilith?"

"You are not only ugly, but you are really pathetic slow-witted, girl." Grinning sarcastically, Lilith arched an eyebrow as she gave Luna a dismissive glance. "Seeing my husband picked you as the High Priestess just boosted my self-esteem."

As if a lightbulb went on her head at that exact moment, she had finally connected the dots.

"You are the Archdemon of Envy, then" Luna's fists shook with the intensity of her hatred.

With chests heaving and heart pounding loudly in her ears, Luna spat the words out, "You were the one who sacrificed the children from the Human Realm to capture me in the Realm of Dreams because of Ravin's request!"

"Yes, girl, the one and only."

The High Priestess had given her a look that radiated superiority. "The moment Apollyon and I will have our reunion..."

Lilith paused and glanced heavenward as if trying to halt the happy tears which had threatened to fall.

"It seemed so far, but I guess his love for me was always there-- just steps away." Lilith's voice cracked with emotion that made Luna clenched her jaw with disgust.

"If I get back at the cauldron and successfully possess your body at the Vampire Realm--" Her eyes softened with desire as if she imagined all the things that she would do when she got her hands on Luna's husband. The High Priestess added, grinning, "--nothing will be the same anymore, but of course, Apollyon wouldn't really notice that you are gone forever."

There was a roar in her ears, and Luna couldn't control the angry tears streaming down her face. "So you agreed to strike another bargain with the Archdemon of Gluttony so you could trap my soul in Hell and possess my body?"

"This is the reason why I told you he would be my husband soon because I will take over your body." Lilith huffed in annoyance as if unravelling her plans step-by-step to a 'slow-witted-child-such-as-Luna' was a waste of her time. The bitch had acted like interacting with her was pretty taxing.

Same, bitch, same.

Lilith rolled her eyes as she nodded her head in pity and resumed with her patient bragging, "Don't worry darling, he will be so engrossed with himself because I know that Apollyon was a narcissist who had loved himself above all else before he might even notice that the one he was fucking every night was me and not you."

Luna let out a booming laugh before she declared, "Apollyon will notice that it wasn't me anymore, Lilith."

"The Vampire King had loved me and not you. You are just one delusional bitch!" She will repeat these statements until it sunk into Lilith's stupid brain, which she only used often. "You need to wake up, Lilith."

The High Priestess set the ends of her silver hair on fire, and Luna screamed.

Squeezing her eyes shut, Luna's body tensed.

She had thought for a second that the High Priestess would put the magic flames burning on her hand near Luna's face, making her suffer in delirious agony as she laid still and just willing to accept her torture.

Luna gained enough courage from the boiling rage inside her.

There was an inner desire—a single-minded focus--to carry out a vendetta for the High Priestess who had done everything to destroy her peace and her relationship with the Apollyon.

"When I woke up at your soul portal, I had wondered who that bitch was, screaming like a hag on top of a boiling cauldron. Of what? You have used what you claimed as the 'blood of the pure magical unicorns', huh?" Luna said with a sneer as she gave the High Priestess and unsettling eye contact, probing her entire empty existence.

"Then why are you still here--talking to me about your failed plans, Lilith?" Luna jutted her chin a bit in a smug challenge, and that made the high Priestess release animalistic growls in her throat.

"I know why you mad at me, bitch."

Great!

Luna had affected her, and that was Luna's main goal.

"Your sacrifices hadn't worked." Luna pronounced as she continued belittling her just as how Lilith did. "You hadn't successfully possessed my body, and you will never be successful because you are the most pathetic Archdemon that ever existed in Hell."