A soft gasp elicited from the woman’s pillowy lips, drawing Merlin and Levi’s attention to the situation at hand. Putting the puzzles pieces together after seeing the unconscious and the kneeling grand duke of the Nether World who was also chained and gagged by a woman, Levi met a familiar pair of eyes among the guardian angels surrounding the defeated demon lord.
On instinct, Levi, who knew how protective Maleficent was to her father, looked at the horned and winged Halfling standing before him and Merlin. Her back was straightened while her shoulders were squared. Levi could not see a single tremble from her but the shadows gathering behind her, overshadowing his shadow and Merlin’s were trembling and hissing. She was indeed a wielder of darkness.
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