"I think he must have seen something in that office. Do you remember? While that Batman went to the restroom, he kept looking through the files in the drawers. Could those records have mentioned this?"
"But that was a psychiatric hospital. What did it have to do with the so-called town of Lordsan and Ragusa, Italy?"
"In Sicily, there was a legend that Ragusa was built upon the third vertebra of a demon's spine. That was why the place produced criminals of every kind."
Constantine blew out a smoke ring and said in a somewhat world-weary tone, "When I traveled through Europe, I met a Mafia member there. He told me that Ragusa's founder had been plagued by demons. In order to suppress the demon about to crawl up from Hell, he built the Old City."
"The Old City was like a nail driven deep into the demon's spine, pinning him to the ground so he could never stand again." Constantine narrowed his eyes as he recalled, "The locals also passed down a legend: if you kept digging downward through the Old City Ruins, you could pass through the demon's brainstem and eye sockets and reach Hell's furnace."
"Wait." Spider-Man suddenly cut Constantine off. "Do you remember the parable Schiller mentioned? 'Those born of flame shall surely be destroyed by flame.'"
"Does Hell really exist in this world?" Overlord Superman clearly did not believe it. "I searched the entire Earth and never saw any demons or Angels."
"Because they aren't on Earth. The Limbo I inhabit isn't there either, at least not somewhere ordinary methods can reach. If they shut you out, you'll never find them."
Constantine thought back more deeply before saying, "I never heard anything about a necklace in Ragusa, but ruins of Old Cities like that always