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Demons are salvation?
In the game, the demons always brought only destruction.
This was a consensus even within the demon race.
In demon history, the number of worlds destroyed by demons was countless.
A glimpse could be seen from the brutal Human-Demon War in the first playthrough.
Reji remembered that this war, which lasted for a hundred years, nearly reduced the world's population by more than two-thirds.
The reason why the "second playthrough" demons haven't brought much destruction to the world is entirely because of him and also because they were defeated too badly last time. That should have been the first time in history that the demons tasted the flavor of failure.
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Otherwise, it could be seen from the initial war council when he first descended.
If he didn't intervene, although the Wisdom Demon advocated caution, almost all the other apostles still mainly favored directly pressing on with a large army. Misery for living beings would have been inevitable.
Now, through memory, his mentor in the game, who was also the Great Guardian of all humanity at the time, the transcendent mage at the pinnacle of the magic pyramid, Malvin, in the final notes, called them salvation?
If it were the previous Reji, he would definitely be unable to understand, just like Kazaar.
When he played the game, he thought that demons were inherently brutal, pure representatives of evil classic villains.
However, only after truly descending to the demon side did Reji discover that demons were not actually like that.
Although it sounds a bit cliche, they indeed also had flesh and blood.
They also had all kinds of emotions.
And as Reji unlocked more of the Demon King's fate track and gained a deeper understanding of the demon race, he realized that the fundamental reason driving the demons to constantly destroy worlds could be summed up in one sentence.
They don't know how to farm.
They seemed to have never thought of "development and construction" in their bones.
Even though they conquered the world, they didn't think about developing it and didn't know how to develop it. As a result, after "eating up" the old resources of this world, they could only go find the next one in order to survive.
This also led to the demon race's population never being able to increase. Having a population of several tens of millions or even hundreds of millions like humans was simply a pipe dream for the demons.
Not knowing how to farm destined the demons to constantly plunder, and frequently going to war with various worlds also limited the demon race's population.
No matter how powerful the Sorcery Demon was, it was impossible for him to allow millions of demons to freely travel between worlds.
So under normal circumstances, the demons usually only retained the core Nine Apostle clans. As for the remaining demon population, leaving a small portion was enough.
After descending to the target world, the Breeding Demons would start rapid breeding and through plundering, let the demon population skyrocket in a short period of time like an armory.
After the war ended, in order to save resources, this excess population would be actively reduced.
Repeating this cycle over and over.
As long as the demons maintained their overwhelming combat power, this system could actually continue to operate.
Unfortunately... In the human world, the demons hit a wall.
A variable called the "Hero" appeared.
Reji didn't think this was a coincidence.
All the clues seemed to point to a keyword: Evil God.
A thousand years ago, Freya, the Radiant Saintess, called him, the "Hero", an Evil God who corrupted his companions and turned them all into monsters.
And from the perspective of his companion Kazaar, Freya was the Evil God. The Saintess either framed the companions with various crimes or directly captured them and put them in prison.
Then in the prison, she "assimilated" these companions one by one into fleshy monsters?
This also explained why human civilization would regress so much a thousand years later. Even 3rd-tier spells were extremely rare, and 4th-tier spells were regarded as treasures. The 5th-tier archmages who walked the earth a thousand years ago had now become the top combat power of nations.
It seemed that the batch of human elites from a thousand years ago, the master-level figures in various fields, had all been captured by Freya in one fell swoop.
This directly led to the severance of human inheritance.
And from the Ilinor side later on, Reji also learned that the empire had also introduced the "Prohibition of Magic Proliferation" treaty, which had been maintained for hundreds of years.
Under this treaty, no human country was allowed to widely teach magic to civilians. Only a very small number of nobles were allowed to learn, and high-tier magic was almost entirely confiscated and destroyed by the empire.
All these things combined resulted in the current extremely "low magic" human world.
The seemingly chaotic information fragments, when organized and pieced together by Reji like this, seemed to form a chain of logic that could be understood.
Known fact one, the demons constantly plundered high-level worlds. Yes, only high-level worlds.
The demons disdained to invade low-level worlds and there was nothing worth invading. It was the same principle as only robbing the wealthy and not robbing the poor and refugees. The resources produced by low-level worlds were not even enough for the demons to make a trip.
Then based on this known fact one, tracing back the actions of the Radiant Saintess a thousand years ago seemed to be explainable.
Freya didn't know whether there were other demons outside the world.
So she chose to cripple herself and lower the world's level to "protect" the world in this way?
If it weren't for the subsequent "known fact three", Reji might have thought so.
But...
Known fact three, on the last testament of Malvin's notes, it was written that the demons were... salvation.
It was very normal for the Radiant Saintess to not know about things outside the world.
But Malvin was different.
This Great Guardian was truly an existence who could detach his consciousness from the world and glimpse the universe.
Back then, it was Malvin who discovered the elven world and took the initiative to contact them.
Malvin should have also seen too many worlds destroyed by the demons.
In the game's plot, the Great Guardian chose to sacrifice himself to save him, the Hero, precisely because he had seen a lot and knew the terror of the demons who would only bring destruction.
But now it seems...
It should be that he was misled by the "game", or that this was all just a false appearance put on by Malvin?
Malvin could see "destruction" as salvation.
That could only mean...
There was something even more terrifying than "destruction".
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