All Chapters of Ashwyck Academy for the Damned: Chapter 91 - Chapter 94

Maldric:The walls of the ruined catacombs pressed in on me like the chest of a coffin, claustrophobic and suffocating. The faint echo of Isadora’s power pulsed through the stones—a tremor that made the ground beneath me vibrate. I should have been in control. I was ancient. I was eternal. I was Maldric. And yet… every instinct told me I was walking into a trap.“Maldric.” The voice was soft but commanding, cutting through the chaos of the collapsing catacombs, carrying a weight I could not deny.“Demon.” I responded, every syllable rolling with centuries of arrogance and cruelty. But my heart—well, not my literal heart, but the dark pulse of my being—stirred with unease.She was offering me something unexpected. A truce. The word itself should have tasted like ashes on my tongue, but curiosity pricked through my caution.“A truce?” I hissed, circling the ruined chamber, shadow tendrils lashing at the stone floor, reacting to my unease. “Why would a devourer, the Tamer of the High, of

Lucian:The smell of rot and blood clung to the catacombs like a second skin, thick and choking. I moved through it with practiced ease, the shadows parting at my touch. Every step echoed against the stone walls, each echo a drumbeat marking the approach of something ancient, cruel, and foolish.Maldric crouched ahead, dark as the soil beneath us, his claws dripping shadow and ichor, body trembling. Weak. Too weak. I could feel the tremors in the air, the wavering pulse of his magic struggling to hold form. He knew it too, which is why his eyes, those luminescent, demonic orbs, were fixed on me with a mixture of hate and terrified anticipation.“You shouldn’t have come,” he hissed, voice cracked like old leather. “You—this little girl—”I laughed, low and savage, teeth bared in the dim light, my own pulse thrumming with bloodlust and fury. “She’s the reason I’m here, incubus. Weak as you are, I could crush you with a thought. But I want to see you squirm. I want you to know what she c