Cursed Are The Blessed

the assault on the

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blood and the pungent aroma of brimstone permeates an air heavily ladened with an abundance of excreted demon miasma. These extremely hellish conditions in the human world would

n the distance. Sairya ... one of the Demon Lord's eight generals ... is returning with his troops from t

being a seemingly one-sided massacre. It was just like Meera had warned Shakira about from what she saw in her prophetic visions; the Demon Lord's forces' numbers were too overwhelming for the pack to handle. They never stood a chance. The mountainous region where they once o

the Demon Lord himself sees this campaign as an utter failure, being how one of the main objectives behind the assault ... probably the most important one in the Demon Lord's opinion .

Demon Lord. So, he begins plodding forward, leading his troops back to the castle; however, still moving along at a snail's pace. After all, just because he realizes that he

dismissed, granted permission to return to their quarters and get some well-deserved rest as a reward for having defeated the Shadow

scort him to the Great Hall; where the Demon Lord, the other seven generals, and several othe

the recent campaign was a major victory for demon kind; unlike the actual general, who knows the truth. The same goes for Xyos, who just sha

erwhelms Sairya's body; and his feet become seemingly frozen in place. Petrified

isfortunate souls who happened to have failed or dared to oppose him, the Demon Lord stares at the immobile general. Fed

your ass and get over here. You've kept us waiting long enough." The Demon Lord quickly c

ers up enough courage to gradually inch his way forward towards the dais. Xyos, who can see that the Demon Lord is becoming more and mor

these antics amusing and begin snickering; but the Demon Lord, who's not amused, rebukingly gl

ely drops to his knees and assumes a submissively

seech you; please take

hin the Great Hall; but it's immediately squashe

irst, a look of disgust begins to emerge upon his visage; but that qui

now, do you ... asking me to

s silent, remaining in that submissively p

me that you realize that you've messed up big time and are totally at fault. Clearly your overabundance of guilt has given you away, Sairya. W

e for the apparently fallen general ... decides to throw caution to the wind and intervene on be

l fairness, General Sairya had led a successful assault against the Shadow Hunter Pack, defeating the last known Acrilia

t those words out of his mouth; or was aware of how bad of a taste it would leave in there. But, as they say, desperate times

d intensely stares down upon Sairya; momentarily sil

e position and starts to get up on his feet, but is abr

on your feet! Back down on your kn

rd continues; a bit more civil in manner this time, but still

defeated the Shadow Hunter Pack. But, in your opinion, is

y Lord ... we did manage to exterminat

exterminate every last Acrilia

s in a deep breath in an attempt to compose himse

he case ... tell me; Sa

plies, "Her, my Lord? I don't qui

asingly agitated by the general'

ay along with you. The 'her' I'm talking about is Shakira's infant daughter ... the luna's daughte

weeks before the assault, the Shadow Hunter Pack handed over all of their children and about half of thei

children, along with half of their breeders ... who are capable of self-reproduction; thus, possibly bringing more Acr

n a sheepish manner, "Well

at what you're telling m

es, my

fe to also say that the luna's daugh

e Sairya tries to build up enough nerv

t exactly

.. What does that mean? Wh

City. They have no idea where she is. I'm afraid we lost track of her." Sairya hysterically cries out, "Please ... please, my Lord; please forgive me! It wasn't my fault! She wasn't th

s throne and slowly descends the steps of the dais. He walks over to the blubbering general and pla

's going to

ing to feel a false sense

Lord? Thank you. I swear,

.. of course you won'

le to Sairya. Sairya recipro

yes instantly shoot up and blankly stare upon the Demon Lord's countenance, which is still disp

like-looking demon blood gurgles up his t

p by brutally ripping Sairya's throat out; unceremoniously throwing the torn flesh in his han

.. worried about the safety of their own lives. The Demon Lord has apparently complete

k ... because they allowed the luna's daughter to slip away, making them directly responsible for losing track of the daughter. Aft

a word; so, no one could verbally respond. They

uting, "And I want the luna's daughter found and ki

apprehensively calls o

e luna's daughter dead; but why does it

the Great Hall, as he once again