Unlike the Blood Angel—the Blood Angel had voluntarily transformed all the Children of the Moon before his fall.
But the Fallen Angel had not wiped out all the demons.
On the original Timeline, this had been done by the Ring Angel, who had obtained the Angel Shard of the Fallen Angel—he had dismantled the demons, reconstructed them, and transformed them into Elemental Spirits. But now, those demons were still barely surviving in the Dream Realm, having been forced to disperse back there only because the Demon Scholar had lost his power. Even the contracts themselves had not been severed.
But the demons had now lost the Fallen Angel's domain. Without homes of their own, they could only eke out an existence in the domains of other angels or in the wastelands of the Dream Realm, where no angel offered them protection.
Moreover, after losing their Great Sin Power, nearly all the Greater Demons had suffered a drastic decline in strength.
Specifically, all those Greater Demons that had originally been Greater Phantom Demons had lost their "divinity," which could unconditionally add one to their priority. Having also lost their Great Sin Imprints, they could no longer grow stronger.
That said, demons still objectively existed. And Viennes, who had inherited the Fallen Angel's authority, could also control demons to a certain extent.
Regardless of whether the three ritualists had been bound by rituals or curses while alive, preventing them from betraying Adil... transforming them into demons would bypass that restriction.
Staring at the troll ritualist whose mind had been stolen after an iron plaque containing the power of rituals and curses had been embedded in his chest, turning him into a living ritual hub, Iver slightly furrowed his brow and read the name on the plaque:
"Adil's Mercy... Adil..."
After thinking for