She Belongs To The Devil

Mirah blinked her eyes and tried looking down. Her body was right where she had left it. The wings were still flapping and her hands were searching for her head.

Thankfully, Lilith hadn't used her sword forged in hellfire to behead Mirah. She had used a simple dagger and because Mirah's spine in the root of her wings was still intact, she was still alive even when she was cut into two.

Lilith shoved back Mirah's head in her hand and said, "Go back to the mansion and ask everyone available to search for Damien."

"Yes, Mistress." Mirah hurriedly tried to fix her head back on her neck.

Suddenly, Mammon's laughter drowned the war cries and battle noises in the vicinity.

Mirah turned around and immediately flew towards the mansion before someone else tried to kill her for real.

Mammon proudly fisted his blood-laced hand on his waist and sprinkled salt on Lilith's wound, "Looks like my follower was able to snatch your gem of a son. Huhahahahaha…"

The moment Lilith heard that, she shot forward like an arrow and pierced her sword right through that demon's neck.

She tried to slice his head off but he snapped his fingers and several diamonds flung up in the air from his pouches. It was one magic that he practiced a lot.

The diamonds' reflections made Lilith flinch for a millisecond and it was enough for Mammon to back away from the sword.

He was bleeding severely and the wound was not healing right away. But still, he covered his neck with his palm and threatened Lilith, "If you kill me then you will never reunite with your son again. My followers will skin your son alive and feed him to the beasts."

Lilith felt a chill in her heart. She turned into a statue after realizing that she couldn't afford to make a wrong move when the enemy had captured her son.

Lilith instantly unarmed herself. But she spoke to Mammon in a harsh voice, "Leave my son out of this, or I will make you regret this day."

Mammon smirked. Now that he had Lilith's fierceness somewhat under control, he wasn't going to just release her son just like that.

So he put forth his demand, "As a fellow demon, I respect your talents a lot, Lilith. So let me ask you once again, be my follower. Give me your word that you will bring all of your demons into my clan and that this village will belong to me from today. If you do so then I will let you have your son back."

Lilith clutched her fists on hearing that absurd demand.

If one was to look around at the battle right now then Mammon's clan was bearing a huge loss on their side. They hadn't been able to infiltrate the village except a few of them. And it was confirmed that Lilith's clan would win this battle if they were given some more time.

And to surrender when her side was already on the winning track sounded unbearable to her.

But what was the point of behaving like a Queen of a small territory and a few demons if she lost her only child?

Lilith was ready to accept the offer from Mammon.

But first, she insisted, "Bring my son here first. If there is even a single scratch on my boy's body then I will kill whoever abducted him. I will think about your offer only after checking that my son is well."

The shadow gripper was one of the demons with great ability. Mammon didn't want to lose him if Damien happened to have sustained injuries. But he believed that the offer from Lilith was a good one.

"Even if her son was hurt in the process of getting captured, his wounds should have already healed by now," he thought.

"Okay." Mammon flared his nose thinking that he had Lilith right where he wanted.

To be honest, he hadn't thought that Lilith would give up so easily. He had thought that she would try to kill him first with all her might and then only she would agree to him as a last resort.

But he was glad that Lilith gave up fighting him early on. The wound from her sword was strangely taking way too much time to heal.

"I will summon the shadow gripper here."

Lilith landed on the ground and nodded her head. Stay updated through m-v l|e'm,p y r

Mammon then closed his eyes and did some simple hand gestures. A red magic circle appeared in front of his hand and he slammed that circle on the ground.

After a few seconds, the ground before Mammon's feet turned gooey and the shadow portal appeared.

Lilith's eyes lighted up in the hope that she would see her son.

Mammon was also eager to see the 'golden boy' who was going to bring him a lot of land, riches, and underlings.

However, the demon inside that shadow didn't come out for good seconds.

Mammon then furrowed his brows and banged on the ground beside that portal. And he shouted, "Gripper! What are you doing inside? Bring that boy out here."

There was silence for some more seconds.

Lilith felt played by Mammon and she shouted, "WHERE IS MY SON? Or were you just bluffing with me?"

Mammon was also agitated already. And he shouted back at Lilith, "Why would I bluff with you? Besides, didn't your servant say that she saw the gripper kidnapping your boy? Or are you trying to say that your own servant lied to you?"

"Then ask him to bring my son out of that hole already!" Lilith was ready to jump in that portal herself to take her son out of it.

Mammon then growled at the portal in an angry voice, "Gripper, you bring him out or I will kill you!"

The shadow rippled and out came the hooded demon.

However, he came empty-handed. His hood was hanging lower than usual. And he slowly mumbled in a shaken voice, "Master, I… I lost the boy."

Both Lilith and Mammon snarled simultaneously, "What do you mean by you lost the boy?!"

Mammon immediately asked further, "Didn't you abduct the boy? A succubus was saying that you kidnapped him."

The shadow demon tightly clutches both of his hands together. And he answered in a shaken voice, "Yes, I did kidnap him. I had already pulled him inside my shadow. But… but suddenly, he vanished from my grip."