For five agonizing seconds, neither of the Apex Predators could process what they were seeing in front of them. The terrifying, monstrous energy that had propelled them down the winding corridors, hit a solid, impenetrable brick wall.
Arkin and Koa completely froze in shock.
They looked at the crumpled, black-robed body of the female assassin. They looked at the glowing, toxic green poison sizzling harmlessly against the stone wall. And then, their glowing eyes locked onto Lexianna.
The dim torchlight illuminated the stark, horrifying contrast of the scene. The Iron Queen stood tall and unbothered, but she was painted with the graphic reality of the Demon Realm. A stark, dark ribbon of demon blood was smeared across her pale cheek. Droplets of crimson stained the pristine, glowing silver of her hair, and her hands—the same small, delicate hands they had both been so desperate to protect—were coated in the undeniable evidence of a lethal strike.
