Inside an underground cavern beneath Nan'en City, the capital of Nan'en Province in the Nagarash Kingdom, three High-tier Soul Intent Demon Warlocks met in a secret chamber.
"All the rituals have been prepared. We need only wait three days, then activate the ritual and summon the Abyss Gate to descend."
"A Blood Sacrifice of ten million Living Beings will be enough for the three of us to obtain sufficient knowledge from the Abyss and advance to Legendary."
The High-tier Soul Intent Demon Warlock seated on the left spoke in a low voice while raising his right hand and stroking the mask on his face, which had been made from the skull of a paladin of the Dawn Church.
"My side is ready as well," the High-tier Soul Intent Demon Warlock on the right said. "By using this region's suppression of Legendary Demons, we'll trap and kill three Legendary Demons, seize their ranks, first blend into the Abyss, and when the right opportunity comes, use their invasion of other worlds to travel to the Astral Realm."
"Then everything will proceed according to plan," the High-tier Soul Intent Demon Warlock seated in the main seat said in a deep voice. "We'll use the Legendary Demons' contempt for us to lure them into the encirclement we've set up, borrow that Legendary object from the Dawn Church, trap and kill them, seize everything they have, and turn it into resources on our path forward."
After the final secret discussion before the ritual began, the three High-tier Soul Intent Demon Warlocks left the secret chamber and headed to the areas each of them was responsible for.
Aboveground, this southern pearl of Nagarash, a city with a population of five hundred thousand, remained as prosperous as ever. The nobles in the city drowned themselves in pleasure,