Asmodeus didn't move at first because he was trying to understand the situation.
The tunnel dripped around them, each drop striking the black water with a hollow plip, plip, plip that echoed far deeper than it should have. Behind the woman-like abomination, countless small eyes remained open in the darkness, but none of the spawn rushed forward anymore.
They all just watched, making little squeaks as if overjoyed.
Axiom throbbed inside his hand, eager and impatient to devour the monster before him, but Asmodeus tightened his grip until the vibration dulled.
"Who are you talking to?"
The creature's head tilted.
Several eyes along her shoulder blinked shut, while the two on her face remained fixed on him. They were strange eyes. Pale, inhuman, and yet filled with too much wisdom and emotion to belong to a newborn monster.
After marrying Lumina, his hatred for female monsters faded.
Rather, he found them quite alluring and exotic.
