Chapter 567: Shadow Demon
That clawed hand swiftly pulled his leg in order to drag him inside the shadow portal.
"Oh crap!" it was all that Damien could think when his body got flung backward in the air due to the sudden pull.
The leader of the enemy clan, Mammon, had asked some of his underlings to kidnap the boy. He knew that the boy was Lilith\'s greatest weakness. Thus, he wanted to use Damien as the bait for his negotiation with Lilith.
In his quest to gain more territory and wealth, there was nothing that Mammon wouldn\'t do. After all, just like most of the demons, he was greedy and self-centered.
"Maaaaaaaaaa!" Damien screamed in shock and tightly gripped the deer plushy. He was trying to shout for his mother but he couldn\'t even bring himself to say the complete word.
His gaze landed up in the sky above him. His eyes subconsciously searched for his mother. He was hoping that his mother had already come to save him from the clutch of the shadow demon.
But all he could see were two of the enemy demons hovering right above him.
As he kept on getting dragged, he could feel his body entering inside something unexplainable. He felt like he was inside something solid but at the same time something fluid.
The parts of his body which had entered the shadow were cold all of a sudden. If it wasn\'t for his legs that were stinging and had already gone numb, he might have felt relaxed in that cool atmosphere inside that shadowy thing.
However, he was feeling like his body had been separated from his consciousness. He was unable to feel or control the parts of his body that had entered the shadow.
That was when he realized that if someone was going to save him then it would be him and no one else.
Right before Damien\'s head sunk inside the shadow portal, his survival instinct kicked in.
Though he couldn\'t feel the roots of his wings anymore, he thought of protruding his wings.
"Hyaaaaaaahhhh…" He didn\'t feel his wings but still, he closed his eyes and tried to flap them with all his might. He was believing that he had successfully extended his wings in the first place.
After struggling for a few seconds, he felt the heat around his neck and his shoulder blades. He knew that his wings were working and that slowly but steadily, he was getting out of that demon-eating hole.
The demons who were circling Damien from above kept on staring at him. They were thinking that the shadow demon was just having some fun messing around with Damien by scaring him a little.
"Arghhhhhhhhhhhhh…" Damien struggled for some more seconds and tried to get himself out.
Finally, his wings were now out of the shadow. It now became easier for Damien to flap his wings and lift himself up in the air without straining his shoulder blades too much.
One of the demons who was flying was now a little worried. "Sakar, don\'t you think that lump of meat is actually challenging our shadow gripper?"
"What?" The other demon looked down at Damien and blew a raspberry. "Our friend is just letting that boy think that he can escape. Just keep on watching and you\'ll see how he will drag that boy right in."
The first demon was not convinced though. But he still decided to keep on watching for some more. "I can always kick him back inside the shadow if that rat actually tries to escape."
While those two demons were focused on Damien, they failed to notice a succubus flying toward them at a great speed.
Whoosh! Smack!
She caught those demons by surprise and managed to smack one of those demons right on the neck.
"Ack!" that demon choked on his own saliva and entered a coughing fit.
The succubus gave a solid roundhouse kick to that demon.
It looked like he was a very weak demon and the next thing that succubus saw was him dropping down to the ground.
The other demon didn\'t immediately attack the succubus because he was too immersed in her beauty.
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The succubus was quick to notice that he was enchanted. So she seductively waved and winked at that drooling demon and said to him in an arousing whisper, "Stay right here and keep waiting for me. I will be right back."
"Yes ma\'am," that demon gave a crooked grin and folded his legs mid-air as though he was sitting in the air.
She then instantly shot down towards Damien and held out her hands. And she shouted, "Master, thank you for holding on till now. Grab my hands."
When Damien heard the voice of one of the servants at his mansion, he felt so relieved that he wanted to cry.
He bit the ear of his plushy and held out both of his arms towards the succubus.
The succubus grabbed Damien by his wrist and pulled him up with all her might. But the shadow demon kept on grabbing Damien\'s leg.
When Damien felt the numbness from his leg disappear, he used his free leg to violently kick that demon\'s hand.
However, no matter how hard Damien was hitting him, the shadow demon was refusing to leave Damien\'s ankle.
Damien was feeling like his body would tear up in the middle because of how the succubus and the shadow demon were playing tug of war using his body as the rope.
In the end, the succubus won but all three of them got thrown away from the portal\'s vicinity. They crashed on the ground with a loud thud.
Thankfully, Damien was cushioned by the succubus\' body and he wasn\'t badly hurt. But his whole body felt sore from all that flying and pulling, especially the roots of his wings and his wrists and ankle. They were hurting really badly.
The shadow demon was the first one to pick himself up from the ground. His whole body was covered with pitch-black clothes and his face was also hidden underneath a low hood.
He stood beside the succubus and loomed over her face. And an angry growl came from under that hood, "How dare you bring me out in the light? I was thinking of offering the boy to my master, but now I will offer both of you. He will be greatly pleased to get a slave like you."
The succubus was tightly hugging Damien over her chest, almost choking him.
She then glared at the hood and growled back, "As if the likes of you can afford to have me as a slave."
And before the shadow demon acted, the succubus poked inside that hood with her pointy tail.
"Argh!" the shadow demon covered his face and growled again, "Now you\'ve done it, you wench! I was thinking of letting you live. But now I\'m going to give you a very horrible death!"