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Archdemon Empress Luna

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Luna scowled at how mentally disturbing it was now that she remembered the Archdemon of Envy's whimsical actions.

She hated being helpless!

"Lilith had desired you so much she wanted to possess me, claiming that she should be the one you were supposed to marry."

"Luna." Pausing, Apollyon murmured as he lifted his hands to fiddle with her iron handcuffs. "What you are telling me--"

The stranger, mayhap it was the adult Cederic, lifted a hand, catching Apollyon's attention. "Don't free the lady yet, King Apollyon. You must remember what Lilith had done during our speculation of her identity."

Apollyon snapped out of his reverie and flinched from the military general's warning.

As the Fae Prince straightened his spine, he shifted where he stood against the wall, "Think twice before you do something. You can become illogical and impulsive when it came to your Empress!"

Shaking his head, Apollyon glowered at her as if it was her fault, "I'm calling you Luna even if I am not one hundred percent certain that you are my wife."

Sighing, Luna guessed that they still had a long way to go—too many back and forth conversations--before Apollyon could accept her in his heart without a doubt.

Luna understood him even if it was unreasonable in her point of view.

Her husband was just being too cautious.

He wouldn't want Apollyon to be easily fooled by some other malicious priestesses pretending to be her and it should be a two-way street.

What would Apollyon do if he found out that she had mated with Luxen which could possibly bear her an Archdemon child in the future?

If that happened, what would happen to Apollyon's baby in her stomach?

If her husband had freed her, she would have bitten all her fingernails in anxiety.

Luna could only pray that Luxen's seed wasn't that effective so that she wouldn't have figured out the answer.

Clearing his throat, he agreed, "That Ancient High Priestess is delusional."

Luna took a deep breath, wishing that this heavy discussion would be over soon. "When I was dragged to Hell by one of her vicious rituals, I found out that he was the Archdemon of Envy, husband. I have heard Lilith talking about a conjurer from the Faerie Realm. She had tasked the Faerie to offer unicorn blood for her because of its magical properties."

If she talked for another hour, Luna would probably faint from the lack of blood and energy.

Luna continued her narration, feeling zapped from the Morning Star. "They said murdering pure-hearted creatures such as unicorns, children and innocent virgins would be the greatest sacrifice that the Archdemon Magic would require."

She licked her parched lips and her eyes zeroed in on Apollyon's carotid.

When she brought her gaze back at him, she saw Apollyon swallow hard before casually covering the said spot of his neck with his large hand.

Mayhap, that would also clue him in that she was his wife because Luna was still very much a vampire when it came to her husband even if the darkest souls were more appetizing in her taste buds recently.

That was what she ate in Hell if she didn't want to be codependent on Ravin for her survival.

Luna's voice rose as if that would give her the zeal she needed, "This kind of magic will have no limits and boundaries not unless the Archangels would step in to destroy and repeal the evil magic that was done."

"That's if the Archangels find something of worth to interfere." King Zephyr, the Shadow King's lips twisted in a grimace.

All his dark-greyish hair converged into a single point on top of his head and his long, ghastly robes were floating inches above the ground. "Well, not unless, if the Highest God of the Universe commanded them to step in."

Luna's eyebrows knitted together. "I am not sure if the Highest God had stepped in for me but I have seen an Archangel twice and that was it."

"Archangels usually mind their own business and lead everything up to a creature's fate," King Zephyr replied in a gruff voice. "I think these guardians are kind of heartless that way, just watching their ward suffer."

"They made sure every living creature in every Realm knew their lessons for the growth of their soul. That would determine the life they would live unto the next." He shrugged. "If they had strayed away from their path that was when divine intervention comes in."

Squinting at him in suspicion, Luna observed. "You seem to know a lot of things about Archangels, King Zephyr."

King Zephyr only smiled a secret smile. "You didn't address why Lucifer turned you into an Archdemon, my Empress."

"The Archdemon King turned me into an Archdemon because they wanted to use me as their Portal Key."

"A portal key?" A strong animalistic noise came from Apollyon as he stepped forward in front of her, blocking her vision from the Shadow King.

Luna had no choice but to bring her gaze back to him,

Ah~ Apollyon and this jealous streak of his.

He must have slowly warmed up to the fact that she was his wife.

Well, her lovely bastard needed to hurry up before she got tired of this game.

"How can they turn you into an Archdemon when your soul is that of a vampire?"

"You know that I have a body in the Vampire Realm. King Lucifer, the Father of all Archdemons, had turned me an Archdemon, claiming that I have become a wife to both of his sons, the Archdemon of Gluttony and Lust."

She swore she had heard her husband snarl from that but she pressed on, ignoring her fear to reveal more of her secrets.

"Do you remember at the underground shelter where I have attempted to hide from you, husband?" The more she narrated the entire thing to her husband, the more Luna got frustrated with how helpless she sounded. "I had accidentally opened the Gates of Hell, summoned the Archdemon of Lust to help me perform a reverse exorcism with you, tricking me into forming a blood bond with them."