The Rise of the Underworld by Meg Xuemei X

Author:Meg Xuemei X
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-01-01T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 15

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We gathered in the Hollow Hall inside a gray building, a dining place for the citizens of Nightingale.

The Protectors sat on one side of an old head table. Max, Ash, Merlin, and I sat on the other side. A few top-ranking Thorn Rose warriors, including Guy, stood nearby.

“Talk, druid,” Max said. “How did you even get here?”

“I got to the bowels of the Underworld just as you did—stowing away on the slave smuggler airship,” Merlin said lazily.

Reaper, the slave airship, had been dumping new slaves in the Underworld for centuries. I’d been put on that ship when I was a baby princess, thanks to Merlin.

For years, I’d snuck to the landing site to watch the Reaper landing and check what kind of slaves they brought to Hell each time. My obsession worried Sebastian. It was as if I’d been waiting for someone to come for me on a subconscious level. And on that fateful day, three of my mates had come.

And they’d saved me.

Two of them had accompanied me every step of the way since they found me, and one had turned to the dark side. And now the fourth had also come, and for my sake, they were all stuck here.

“However, I came in a different style than you.” Merlin glanced at Max and Ash sideways, then at me. Max and Ash perched on seats on either side of me, and Merlin sat near the end of the table, next to Max. “I came as a free man without a slave mark and chains.”

“You fucker! You said putting on chains would make our arrival in Hell more plausible, which was a crock of shit,” Ash hissed. “You even branded me with a slave mark, knowing well I’m allergic to iron. I’ll remember this.”

“Your magic burned away the fake slave symbol,” Merlin said, “just as I said it would. So why are you still bitching? Unlike Princess Ayanna, she burned her true slave mark away with her flame.”

“The Queen of the Flame,” Willow murmured. “A few of my girls and I had the honor of seeing the flame on Queen Calamity’s left breast.”

That was when I had changed my outfit in front of them before we made our escape from the emperor’s court.

“You have nerve to mention the slave mark on Ayanna,” Ash snarled, tossing his ice magic at Merlin, throwing the druid out of his chair. “She would never have been a slave if it weren’t for you. You took away her birthright as the heir of Atlantis.”

Merlin got to his feet and patted the dust away from his white robe.

“Her birthright is merely delayed,” Merlin said. “I don’t deny that I wronged her, but the world’s fate is bigger than us.”

He might be right, but emotionally I was still upset. I pushed the residual anger and hurt aside. We’d need all the help we could get, and at least Merlin had come down to Hell himself to lend a hand.

“Can we all reach the Upper Realm through the Reaper?” I asked hopefully.

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