Hades.
Like an inverted World Tree, each layer was a world, seven planes in total.
The higher the layer, the deeper it lay within this universe's realm of negative energy.
Naturally, it was also farther from the material realm of reality.
At this moment.
Adrammelech, who had previously been on the Hades First Layer, suddenly arrived at the seventh layer to meet the "Demon King," Lucifero.
He had notified Baal beforehand, another supreme devil from the third layer.
He had asked Baal to help Moryo guard the Hades First Layer in his stead.
"Four more humans have come, each as strong as you rulers?"
Lucifero's tone carried obvious surprise and suspicion.
"Yes. One of them has an aura I find somewhat familiar. He should be the one who killed Nahama before."
"But his presence is far stronger than it was then, and he has gained some strange magical aura as well."
Adrammelech sat cross-legged in midair and said casually, "Maybe he learned magic from some other world."
"So what? The Hades First Layer's spatial limit is right there. No matter how many strong people they send, what can they do?"
The one who spoke was none other than Megicula, the "Curse Devil"!
But hadn't she been killed two and a half years ago, when Noelle and Nozel joined forces to destroy her heart?
To understand this, one had to know how she had descended back then.
Simply put, Megicula had used the curse magic known as the Evil Goddess's Chant.
Using the soul of Noelle's mother, Acier, the "Steel War Princess," and the soul of Vanica, the dying possessed host and one of the Dark Triad, as sacrifices.
She had bypassed the rules of the Gate of Hades and descended part of her power into Vanica's body.
After that, she