(An extra chapter for everyone's Moon Tickets!)
Hobart was stunned for a second or two. "Y-you aren't the Demon Monarch, Fauvety?"
The middle-aged man on the throne said, "For a very long time, that was indeed my name!"
Hobart became even more confused. "Aren't you Sequence 0 of the Abyss pathway? The god of demons?"
"I am."
Hobart smiled. "Then why are you killing those demons?"
"Because those idiots keep trying to wake me up!" An impatient expression finally appeared on Fauvety's statue-like face. "More than two thousand years ago, I told them that I had willingly entered a state of slumber to hide from my enemies.
"They behaved themselves for only a few hundred years before they began constantly offering sacrifices to me! As a result, my enemies found me again, and I had to make certain sacrifices to escape them once more.
"So I simply stopped answering their prayers as the Demon Monarch, but those idiots actually began offering sacrifices directly to the Abyss! In a fit of anger, I reclaimed the Blood Grand Duke Extraordinary Characteristics from the Andeanrad Family and the Belial Family. Yet why couldn't they learn their lesson? Before long, they began offering sacrifices to the Abyss again."
Hobart recalled Elder Bowen's solemn declaration before the altar. He hadn't expected demons to have such geniuses among them! Then he thought, Case solved. No wonder the Andeanrad Family and Belial Family gradually declined more than a thousand years ago and became vassals of the Nos Family. Fauvety had directly taken out their leaders! Fauvety continued, "Kill the demons on the other side and stop them from continuing their sacrifices. That ring will be yours!
"That ring accompanied me through countless years. One day, it finally gained the abilities of a Demigod. I can seal it