Hell's Consort

Newest Chapter For Highest Tier (May 2022)

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The Archdemon of Sloth

Prince Sloth from the Seventh Circle of Hell

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The birth attendant's face was devoid of emotion but the sparkle of amusement in her milky eyes gave her away.

In that short period, Lune had exposed a side of her that he hadn't seen before.

The Empress was clingy and demanding, crying a flood of tears after screaming to vomit her insides out while kneading his chest nonstop as the huge boulder in her stomach continued to squirm and tremble.

Sloth understood that she was anxious and overwhelmed but the Vampire King should have suffered all of these instead of him.

Every time Luna felt another stabbing pain, she would tell him that every minute that passes by increases her desire to choose death.

He knew she was being dramatic but he was more that relieved when she lost her consciousness.

Finally, some peace and quiet.

They passed through numerous corridors and hallways before climbing through flights of stairs.

Every time he asked the birth attendant if they were close, the old hag pretended  she didn't hear him.

Sloth resorted to gritting his teeth instead of pushing the woman off the stairs out of anger.

Finally, the old woman led Sloth to a tidy and sterile birthing room furnished with a wide, low-post bedstead with pristine white sheets and pillows over them.

She closed the door immediately after he entered, explaining that the room must be shuttered up to imitate the darkness and calm of a woman's womb.

The birth attendants believed that a womb is a portal for any souls from  the Spirit Realm—a moment when an unborn soul will enter into a physical form.

The chamber had no windows for some reason and the birth attendant told him of old superstition that demons might steal a baby's soul out of the window.

During the great war, a lot of nephilim babies—the offspring of a male Gregori and a female Fae—were murdered this way to turn them into demons.

When the birth attendant started a fire to the hearth, Sloth could see that the surface of the walls, the floor and the ceiling and even the bed were coated with emeralds.

Unfortunately, the purifying crystals was a double edged sword.

It might be effective in weakening Lilith but it also made Sloth feel more lethargic than ever.

Sloth shook himself and his heavy eyelids awake as he felt his demonic energy slowly being drained away.

He had no idea  that the Autumn Courts had crystals they could use to fight off demons.

Maybe, the Archdemons in Hell weren't aware of it because the Autumn Fairfolk had hidden their secrets very well.

"Can it be used as a weapon to defeat demons like the Archangel Blade?" Sloth asked as he gently positioned the sleeping Empress at the center of the bed.

"The crystals break easily into small amounts so it wouldn't do much." The birth attendant replied as she plucked a clean undershirt and a long skirt from the closet.

Then, she proceeded to remove Lune's soiled garments efficiently.  "Emeralds and selenites are not as strong as steel. However, being stabbed with swords coated in them could slow down a demon's regeneration. But it still depends on how strong that demon is and the thickness of the melted crystals around the weapon. Being in contact with weapons that had high concentrations of these crystals can paralyze a demon the way poison would."

Sloth's eyes bulged out of his sockets when his gaze landed on his sister-in-law's huge naked breasts.

Panicked, he immediately took his gaze off those pink nipples and faced the door with his hands on his back.

He cursed the old hag in his thoughts.

She should have warned him before she pulled down her bodice.

Baphomet's blood!

He was so distracted that he even forgot what they were talking about.

Was he even listening to the old woman's words?

Oh, right.

He recalled her saying that the entire curtain walls surrounding the Autumn Courts were covered in melted selenite.

Sloth cleared his throat and improvised, "Why didn't the Queen build the entire palace with these crystals? Focusing on the curtain walls is not enough. The coverage is too wide that it spread its magical properties too thin. It wasn't like Autumn Courts' territory is small. If it were me, I would have focused on a smaller concentrated area rather than the fortifications."

He heard more rustling as the birth attendant continued to dress Lune.

"These gems were so rare that it had already become instinct. The Queen had used almost all of these resources on the curtain walls around the Kingdom to strengthen our barriers and protect us from demons." She replied.

"But if the demonic energy from Luxen's Legion were stronger because of their number, the crystals might not be enough to siphon protective energy from your Fae Magicians or wherever it came from. The weak areas in the barriers will be easier to crack."

"Creating this birth room alone killed thousands of miners and laborers. Mining huge amounts of these crystals and those who didn't handle them carefully were all cursed to death. It was clear that someone powerful was behind this,  warning Her Majesty that it was too much and she wasn't allowed to use them anymore. Her Majesty did try to lift the curses with dark magic but it wasn't effective. She loves her people enough not to try it again."

As a precautionary measure, the Vampire King had briefed all the birth attendants to carefully observe the demonic entity inside Luna that would come out if she becomes too weak.

The birth attendant knew that the Empress was possessed by a demon but she would have been oblivious to the fact that Lune was also an Archdemon if he hadn't told her earlier.

At least, she wasn't afraid of them and continued to do her job.

In fact, she was curious about how it came to be, but he was too tired to explain something that complicated.

All that mattered was that she knew how to protect Luna.