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Archdemon Empress Luna

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"How did it escalate into this?"

Luna squeezed her eyes shut, suppressing the memories of mass murder she had witnessed in her life.

It refused to return to the box at the darkest corner of her mind, strictly reserved for traumatic experiences.

Her first memory was the virgin sacrifice done by Lilith to summon the Blood Beast.

Her second memory was seeing the Blood Beast in action when he ate souls at the Blood Moon Banquet.

Her third memory was when Apollyon turned into a dragon and killing everyone in his vicinity, looking for her.

Her fourth memory was Ravin's ancient tree in his castle's courtyard with children's chopped head and limbs hanging over its branches.

These dead bodies of demonic fairies were the fifth memory.

Luna would never be immune to this kind of sight.

She took a deep breath and was hit with a rush of the rotten smell.

It still made her nauseous.

She didn't want to see these things ever again, especially if it was her husband's doing.

She didn't know why Apollyon was nonchalant about this.

He must be used to mass murders.

"You don't have to worry, wife."Apollyon interrupted.

Grabbing her hand, Apollyon pulled her closer when he noticed that the other men surrounded her or mayhap; he noticed Luna was squeamish and about to faint. "The conjurer needed them as sacrifices so that she could summon you back from Hell."

"That was the only reason why she wasn't dead yet." Cederic quipped.

"We made a pact." Her husband explained, "We would spare the life of the conjurer if she can successfully summon you back and exorcise Lilith's soul from your body."

Prince Aspen had his arms crossed over his chest as he nodded in agreement, "Of course, selfish as a solitary Fae was, she would value her life out of all the members she had gathered in her own demonic cult, so she agreed."

"She had no choice but to agree." King Zephyr said, "It's one against two powerful Kings and a Faerie Prince."

Smirking, Cederic raised a finger, "And a handsome and adult Military General, don't forget that."

"Now that she was successful at summoning me back to my own body, what made you so sure that she wouldn't do this again, gather a new batch of faerie for another initiation to gain limited Archdemon Magic?" Luna pointed out.

"Beloved." Apollyon replied."I can wipe out her entire memory from her childhood until now."

"I will also add multiple layers of barriers so nobody could unlock what's inside her mind." King Zephyr said. "Her brain might still accidentally utilize Archdemon Magic despite getting rid of her memories."

"Some might just be bottled up at the darkest corners of her mind." Prince Aspen seconded, "That would be dangerous."

"She would be a useless solitary faerie with no memories." Her husband gave her a nonchalant shrug, and she found herself tucked against Apollyon's chest as if that should, somehow, pacify her. "She would be a mentally impaired faerie with no knowledge and skills to survive. She would be a new-born baby in the body of an adult faerie, left to fend for herself."

She grimaced. "Don't you think that is too harsh for the Faerie High Priestess?"

"Are you saying she didn't deserve to be punished for a crime against the Faerie Nature?" Prince Aspen scowled at her question, looking offended.

Luna pinched her lips together in silence, wincing.

She almost forgot she was the bitch who killed pure-hearted unicorns so that she can deliver her to Hell straight into the Archdemon's arms. But she had no intention to kill the creatures who messed up her life.

She would rather torture them as a punishment, never to die.

Death is an escape to a life full of suffering.

"That's like a reverse situation of mine. She will become a child forced to live in an adult's body. " Cederic said with conviction. "It's a befitting punishment for the conjurer, but to be frank with you, Your Highness, I think it is pretty lenient."

"Death would be too easy for Lilith's conjurer." Prince Aspen nodded. "Killing pure-hearted creatures such as unicorns…" He trailed off as his nostrils flared with anger, "The lady is destined for living a cursed life."

"What a waste of a pretty face," Cederic murmured as he glanced at the unconscious Solitary Faerie. "She had a corrupted heart."

"I find it unfair that you didn't give these faeries who had dabbled into Archdemon Magic a chance to live just like the conjurer, Apollyon." Luna clenched and unclenched her fists in frustration.

She couldn't find justice in this act.

Luna didn't like that her husband was involved, either. "You could have wiped these demonic faeries' memories as a punishment and give them a second shot at life just like what you have intended with the one who summoned Lilith."

"Luna," Apollyon spoke in a low tone. "How will we able to get you back if the Faerie who summoned Lilith had no blood sacrifice to offer, making the ritual successful?"

"Wiping a lot of these people's memories and locking their entire subconscious with shadow barriers for the rest of their life would be inconvenient for me and will require a lot of energy." King Zephyr reasoned out.

"I would rather kill these greedy demonic faeries rather than search for the blood of the unicorns, Archdemons, love so much," Apollyon said with his jaws clenched.

The sickening miasma of blood simmered in this airless space, and she fought the urge to gag.

She buried her face into the spot between Apollyon's neck and shoulder, welcoming her husband's seductive scent.

Luna inhaled, drawing in the clean, fresh scent with a hint of lavender into her nose.

"They are unrecognizable, Luna." Prince Aspen shook his head; his long auburn air fluttered around his long, white robes. "They are an abomination to the Fair Folk. If we let them live and roam around the Faerie Realm, they would create havoc with their newfound Archdemon Magic to create chaos."