Chapter 388: The Truth

"He told me how they did it… How they destroyed and invaded the very world I knew in a single day after that treaty was signed... How from the captured demons they had, they kept them as their very own sex slaves to reproduce, and with that new race, they managed to bypass the restrictions and enter the demon world. While we were busy fighting amongst ourselves in civil wars, they were planning an attack and strengthening their forces…"

"However, out of all the things he revealed, that was somehow the least interesting part…"

"Indeed, the most interesting part was the fact that they had created this new form of energy dubbed as 'mana'. And with it, they were able to do many things… Notably, in the mortal realm to grow so exponentially in strength…"

"It combined a demon's ability to suck and absorb and the long-range of the faith transference they possessed into one invention… Essences of their angelic beasts as the catalyst connecting them from within…"

"They infused this mana into the clouds of various planets… The rain that fell down therein infused with their very being, absorbing the positive energy within them and redirecting it back towards the heavens where they resided…"

"No longer would they need to make people believe in them as deities for them to prosper and gain energy… It's solely the dependence on this new ability thing they had. Indiscriminately they spread the rain, transforming everything in the realm, even those beasts slithering on the ground who possessed no rhyme or reason we affected and transformed into frenzied beasts consumed by their own power."

"And then, from that day onward, the quaint and weak mortal realm was never the same. And that change was masked under an elaborate veil that was nearly impossible to uncover…"

"The Nether Realm is most probably in ruins, and there I was being mocked by an angel that I had been torturing for years on end… And as he finished telling me his story, I lashed out at him and killed him on the spot…"

"However, it mattered not since he was going to die anyway, and I didn't have the means to save him… Even I myself was on the verge of death due to the lack of negative energy surrounding me."

"I couldn't live off killing villagers forever, and putting them on a sex farm to reproduce was too much work for me, especially since I didn't speak the language. So, in the end, I employed what that angel told me. Admittedly, what I did was very sloppy and inefficient in comparison to the angels, but I managed to find a way where I could manipulate and sap away all of their negative energy, leaving them as cheery hollows."

"And like that, I lived for many years, simply sitting, doing absolutely nothing as I rotted away in this fading castle. I couldn't even leave the planet if I wanted to. The climate was too rigorous for me to even leave my castle for an extended time, and in all my years in the nether realm, I never thought to learn some sort of warping or teleportation magic."

"But that was when one day. I heard a sound unlike any other in all my years on this planet. The sound of the sky crying almost like that faithful day in the nether realm. At first, I thought it to be an avalanche, but when I looked out the window I saw something flying up in the sky."

"To me, it was like a giant animal made of metal had invaded me. But, now I know it to be a spaceship that would have allowed me a way out of here. If only I hadn't fully blown it up..."

"Out of that ship, white figures emerged jumping off it like rain… And as soon as I saw that horn on their head I was filled with so many emotions… Fear, excitement, shock, and a lust for revenge."

"I stayed in the safety of my castle. And not too long after, they came to me…"

"I quickly found out that these beings and the invaders of the nether realm were not the same, at least in terms of strength. But, admittedly, against their leaders, I did somewhat struggle actually. Still, eventually, they all died, and what remained of them were those two that begged for their lives… So I spared them."

"Eventually, I even trusted them enough to teach them some demon magic… But that was when I made an interesting discovery. They had unusually high adaptability with it, and picked it up relatively quickly. And thus, I discovered that in all likelihood, they were descendants of those abominations that first attacked the nether realm, and the power of mana was infused deep within their very beings, strengthening their cores… It suggested me that I had been wasting away in this castle for at least several thousand years and I did not even feel the time."

"These shalkers… They told me about all that happened in the outside world, including some sort of prophecy of their people for the return of the lord… And how a certain statue began to glow of someone with horns and wings. And without any further explanation, I interpreted it as your return, and life was rekindled in my eyes. And from then on, I once again indulged myself in painting you your majesty as I awaited for your glorious return…"

"And then the events of recent. I was told by my subordinates that a demon had invaded my domain along with an angel. At first, even I thought it was a traitor who had corroborated with the angels to bring down the nether realm, but I never thought that it would actually be you lord Avilia…"

"That is all that happened given in as much detail as possible… I hope that was some help to you, your glorious majesty…"

As Rupert finally finished story, Moby's mind felt right about to explode. It was as though there had been a gate blocking his mind, and only now was it finally opened. 

He gave many answers, yet it posed so many more questions that he needed answered and so many realizations that only now did he begin theorizing in his mind. 

'Demon children… Those must be kids that the negative energy transference didn't work properly on, and it ended up sucking away too much of their positive energy leaving them as sick and evil out the womb… The reason why everyone on earth is an asshole is because of their abilities and the angels… The ones that are power-hungry are the ones most affected which explains why some really powerful humans such as Mason Griffith were still very nice humans with abilities. 

'The reason why Neia Spud's soul was able to be brought up to the celestial realm was because abilities themselves were so tightly ingrained with abilities, giving it a direct way up... That light that Alex saw escaping people was actually the positive energy leaving their bodies and transferring over towards the celestial realm… And he said that both Avilia's necklace and the book of resurrection were stolen… That means that…'