Newest Chapter for Highest Tier (July 2022)
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Archdemon Empress Luna
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Three hearts made its way through the starlit night---Luna, Sloth and their horse.
The stallion that Sloth got from the stables seemed to move like a fiery whirlwind as if he was putting his own heart on the line on this mission to meet with Ravin.
It didn't seem to have a problem carrying two Archdemons behind his back as the strength of his limbs moved forward, his four, steady hooves meeting the earth in its full glory.
He must be Apollyon's best war horse or something.
"Lune. Why are you in a hurry? There is no one chasing after us." The Archdemon of Sloth was already soft-spoken but Luna could hardly hear what he was talking about due to the pounding in her ears and the adrenaline rush coursing through her veins.
Luna refused to listen and the poor Archdemon looked like he had no patience left.
She couldn't care less whether or not Sloth thought that both of them were one careless gallop towards danger.
His hands on her shoulders tightened.
Next, he pulled her back against his chest so that he could complain some more. "What do you want to tell him anyway?" He asked, loud enough for his words to touch he eardrums. "Is it really this urgent?"
As the corner of her lips curled into a smirk, Luna chose not to respond.
Instead, she loosened her hold on the reins and squeezed the horse's body with her calves and heels, urging the it to pick up speed.
It felt like she was dreaming all along as the horse carried her and Sloth past petal-covered little gardens surrounding clear watered pools and limestone buildings.
Since she was inside the heart of the Vampire Kingdom, which Apollyon's vampire subjects had previously deserted due to Luxen's conquest, the arctic tundra she was usually familiar with near the borders never crossed her sights tonight.
Luna was certain that Ravin wasn't there anyway.
Still, there was no way this could be a dream.
Her eyes were half-open due to the harsh, cold winds lashing out like short, invisible whips on her face but she knew she was perfectly awake.
The sensation felt good, however.
Her spirit had never felt so free.
She liked this feeling quite well and she wanted to enjoy this ride longer.
"Heyy." At this point, Sloth decided to rest his chin on her right shoulder and enunciated as loudly and slowly as if he was speaking to a dim-witted child."Slow down, will you? No one here is trying to kill us."
"I know." She drawled back the exact way he did.
As she looked slightly over her shoulder, her gaze fell on his pouty lips before she brought it back to his forest-green eyes.
"Just grab my shoulders if you're so scared of falling off the horse." She added with a satisfied smile.
Immediately sensing that the stallion wanted to move faster, Luna shook off Sloth's grasping hands on her shoulders, shifted her weight accordingly and leaned towards the horse's neck.
A sense of urgency charged the hot atmosphere around them as they continued to ride at full speed.
It wasn't like they had enemies to scatter but if they kept on riding faster than the wind towards an aimless destination, the three of them would turn into one and simply combust.
"Slow down!"
Sloth shouted as he hurriedly parted the silver hair behind her back from the middle.
Then, the bastard wrapped his hands from the nape of her neck around her throat.
Luna yelped, her eyes widening in surprise.
She couldn't believe Sloth was choking her from behind as the horse's hooves continued to kick up a storm of rock and dust while their cloaks billowed behind them.
"Are you out of your damn mind, Sloth? Why are you choking me?" Luna screeched as she tried to jerk the horse's reins towards her to halt its movements but to no avail. The sheer effort almost threw them backwards as the horse reared out of control and neighed in protest.
"If you don't want to hold unto my shoulders, at least, hold my waist. Not my neck, you bastard!" She forced those words angrily out of her constricted throat as the horse settled his forelegs back to the ground.
Sloth had the good sense to release his hands on her immediately but not before grabbing a fistful of silver hair and pulling at them gently as revenge.
"Ow."
"You should have slowed down at the beginning when I asked you to." He whispered with clenched teeth.
When she turned her head to glower at him, a flash of lightning zigzagged from a distance followed by a clap of thunder as if a storm would break at any given moment.
Meanwhile, the horse had stopped on its own accord.
He must have sensed them squirming and struggling on his back as if they were about to have a fight.
In the end, both of them agreed to get down for everyone's sake.
Sloth went first.
He lifted one of his legs and slid down from the horse.
Luna followed afterwards.
"The horse seemed a lot calmer now." Sloth remarked as he moved closer to the stallion.
As he raised his hand to rub at its nose, Luna stood next to him and replied in asn imperial tone. "You made the horse panic."
He looked at her blankly and studied her face. "Tis not I who keeps squirming around."
"We were riding just fine and he liked it. Didn't you enjoy it?"
He clicked his tongue in disappointment.
"No. The speed is unnecessary. I just don't want you to be reckless for the sake itself."
Luna pursed her lips.
She didn't want to fight anymore so she left it at that.
Then, they strolled side by side as the horse walked behind them.
When Sloth began to walk briskly that all she could see was his back, Luna tried to sneak a kick to the back of his leg.
Unfortunately, Sloth turned around to face her just in time so her mission had failed.