I'm looking for hell at the end of civilization.

Yes, civilization.

In six years, we have made rapid progress and have created what we call civilization. The territory of the Black Coffin has become as wide as the Sword and Shield Society, and the six dukes have all gained their own territories - territories beyond the Black Coffin, six thriving satellite cities.

We have studied the Yukos reactor very thoroughly, understood the principle of the rift, and through faith, we can get a lot of energy from hell, which gives us food, water, transportation, plenty of raw materials, and many other things that were once out of reach.

The numbers are growing, the life expectancy is increasing, refugees from the rifts, newborn babies, young adults who have grown up, slaves in London, and many wanderers who have wandered the wilderness. The total number of people in the Black Coffin Kingdom has exceeded 200,000, a number that strikes me as unreal.

The Anno Empire no longer attempted to conquer the Golden State wasteland, the war between humans seemed to have come to an end, and the disasters from the demons were drastically reduced by the destruction of the rift, and the world was moving towards peace. When a person stands on the top of the hill and looks at the night view of the black coffin, he can vaguely appreciate the bright metropolis style of human beings in the past.

I am the founder of all this, I am a legend, but everything that follows, the dawn of this civilization, has nothing to do with me.

At the end of the second year of Sodom's destruction, I gave Cry to Kara, apprentices to Martin, said goodbye to Lamia, and with the help of the Salotte portal, I set out on a journey with Abel.

We travel to hell, hell, at the end of civilization.

Abel searches for the truth about Apepe, the world-swallowing serpent, and I go to find Lucifer's footprints.

We enter the most dangerous ruins, the deepest caverns, the most terrible nightmares, the most extreme chaos,

I've gained a lot, many, many, amazing secrets.

I remember the death of a human named Seth, who was deceived by Xi Tai, blinded by hatred, and committed the felony of killing his relatives one after another, and when his heart died, he also fell into death.

It was then that Lucifer took the form of Seth.

The legions of the fallen were defeated by the legions of heaven, and all the demons were imprisoned in hell, except for Lucifer, who escaped.

Lucifer didn't know why God forgave him alone, perhaps it was a wicked joke on God's part, or perhaps it was a rare mistake of the Supreme One.

Lucifer awakens Seth, who is sleeping in death, and he walks in the body of Seth.

He used it for many years, regaining his mana, his power was limited due to the lack of faith support, but the Morning Star Messenger had an unattainable wisdom, and he knew what to do.

The real Seth soul was confused during this period, Lucifer did not bother him, he planned to complete this body after completing his plan, but until then....

He secretly taught human wisdom called the wisdom of magic.

During the guidance of the Fallen, humanity had learned and mastered this mystery, but with the defeat of the Fallen, humanity lost faith in the demons, and this power from the soul declined.

Lucifer had come back and created a custom magic for humanity, a magic that was less powerful than the magic of the past, easier to learn, and more systematic, even for humans whose souls had been corrupted at the end of the Ember Age.

These new magics are full of infinite possibilities, and their ceilings—if Lucifer was right—will eventually make humanity comparable to the Creator. But at first, the magic seemed insignificant, and it might have been able to hide God's eyes from the potential danger.

What's more, these spells help Lucifer find his former companions.

He didn't know where God was holding the fallen or how to free them. He couldn't do these things alone, so he relied on human intelligence, human curiosity, human desire, human potential. He guides humanity to explore the unknowns of this world and the mysteries of the world beyond this world.

Through his dreams, he tells humans to find the source of magic, which is the opposite of God, where there is powerful, more accessible mana.

In the dream, he calls himself Satan and calls himself a demon. At that time, he did not know that these concepts would become a symbol of evil in the future, a term for sin.

Humans can achieve anything, as long as they have the right tools. They worshipped magic, worshipped Satan who granted them magic, they became priests and sorcerers of Satan, built temples dotted with them, and performed countless rituals.

Humanity has truly discovered that in some distant time and space, there is a source that is diametrically opposed to heaven.

Lucifer was overjoyed, and he was impatient to push his plan.

At the same time, in five different corners of the world, five huge ceremonies were taking place at the same time.

Lucifer manipulated all of this with incredible precision.

Unbeknownst to the summoners, they were summoning the Grand Duke of the Demons. The prophet in the dream said that these were the old gods of the old world, the rulers of the former world, who had fallen asleep for some reason, and that their awakening would reshape the world.

It wasn't a lie, at least not for Lucifer, there were things he didn't know.

Carnivals were held, sacrifices were made for livestock and slaves, and in the many temples, each of them worshipped, prayed, and chanted with devotion. Kings, queens, emperors, demigods, and mages attend these ceremonies. These summoners know that in the veil of reality, they will create distortions and cracks to summon great elves, and these otherworldly spirits will feel weak after crossing the barrier.

These formless spirits need bodies, but animal or human bodies cannot contain them. They are too powerful to tear flesh apart, so summoners often pour out their efforts to create magnificent and precious artifacts to hold the souls of these ancient gods.

According to the dream image transmitted by "Satan", mankind has built an idol for each demon archduke associated with it.

Biden's sacred relic is a huge tree that has been uprooted, and on top of the tree, a terrifying face is carved, and the face is covered with red vines, like blood vessels.

Asmodeus was given an ebony statue, inlaid with gold wire, in the form of a multi-armed priest looking up at heaven and the stars.

Dagon's vessel was a large stone slab covered with blasphemous writing, and for years to come, it was housed in a strange stone machine.

Yazlar was given a scarecrow statue of a gigantic size, but the scarecrow contained countless bones, dressed in gray robes and with curved emerald eyes.

The giant beast Belette was unexpectedly given an incomparably delicate little fish doll, and the ancient Chinese shaman gave him another ancient name, but it has been forgotten by the world.

The ritual, which made a noise in hell, like a prisoner locked in a cage, heard the sound of unlocking.

Every demon heard it, the soul felt it, and in that moment, no one understood its meaning. They saw a light in hell like never before.

Subsequently, the five greatest of them disappeared. In their place, nothing was left but a flickering emptiness.

The demons whispered and discussed: Did Lucifer finally find his conscience and come to their rescue? Or did the demon archdukes, like Lucifer, make some kind of pact with the Creator and be freed?

In Lucifer's memory, the first to escape was Biden (not really, according to Barr, he was the first to escape, he was summoned out of prison by the Bloods), and he arrived at King Sagan's Arcadia Palace, surrounded by a group of female priests, and the jade floor was soaked in the blood of the victims. When Abiden's soul entered the giant tree, blood boiled over it.

Not too far away, in the kingdom of Sumer, Asmodeis was unleashed by a group of royal mages, during which a huge amount of netherworld energy was generated, most of whom were blurred in the process.

Dagon descended in the canyon of Indaz, and he heard the ringing of gold, and the brass bells covering his organs rang through the sky, summoning him by a group of architects who had already gone mad.

The necromancer kings of the African Drystone Kingdom greeted Azrael, casting his soul into bones and corpses, sacrificing their lives in the process.

The court priests of the Shang Dynasty released Belel with jade, silk, and cremated corpses, and even the emperors of the Shang Dynasty could not match the honorable treatment of Belier. Whenever the fish talisman left the temple, it was heavily guarded and accompanied by a hundred slaves.

Lucifer was in control of the situation through magic, and he was overjoyed to see his colleagues who had escaped from prison, however, cautiously, he did not show up immediately, but watched from afar, examining the souls of his colleagues.

Soon, Lucifer discovers to his horror the fact that his former subordinates have become twisted, crazy, and terrifying monsters, not the noble degenerates he imagined.

Abiden is a mad beast; Asmodeus' mind is incomprehensible; Yazrael, who was already mysterious, is now the embodiment of death of emptiness and hunger; Two of his most trusted lieutenants, Dagon and Belial, now see Lucifer as a traitor and want his life.

He knew that he was not releasing a savior, not a reinforcement, but a deep calamity, a plague of the world. At that time, there was nothing he could do, the summoning ritual had taken a lot of effort and strength, and his soul and Seth's body had reached their limits, and he could not banish these colleagues.

In the same way, the five demon archdukes understood their situation in an instant—they were free.

They don't understand why, but they are not in a hurry to find the truth, and the top priority is to make full use of the current situation, gather the faith of the human race, and let them obtain sufficient mana.

Their miracles strengthened the faith of these worshippers, who grew at an astonishing rate.

Lucifer muttered, "What have I done?" ”

He had anticipated what would follow, but he could only watch.

The success of these five summoning rituals caused the magic he taught to spread rapidly around the world, and people began to summon more demons back to the world.

These demons are the Devils of the Earth.