If a demon could pass all nine trials through sheer strength, then even if not a single Great Demon Race acknowledged him, the strongest demon with nine marks would still be qualified to contend for the Demon King's throne.
Likewise, even if someone failed every trial, as long as he could make nine Great Demon Race members swear allegiance to him, he would still have the potential to become the Demon King.
Of the Great Demon Race members still alive, almost all were Three-Mark Great Demons.
Normally, demons without the ambition to contend for the Demon King's throne stopped challenging the Great Demon Race Trials after reaching three marks.
Almost every Great Demon Race Trial had an impossibly difficult level of challenge.
To reach the point of obtaining a mark, one truly had to stake one's life.
Moreover, based on one's own characteristics, some Great Demon Race Trials were destined to be impossible to pass.
Finding the two trials most suited to oneself among the nine, attempting them once one was strong enough, and then receiving the recommendation of a Great Demon Race member—this was how the vast majority of powerful demons became titled Great Demons.
Helrom Prison had exploited this in reverse, placing three Great Demon Race members in the trials least compatible with each of them and firmly restraining them.
Even if they could break through the restrictions and escape their cells, facing the layered barriers governed by the trial rules would still be their fatal nightmare.
In contrast, the wardens on each of these three levels were all imperial talents best suited to the rules there. They could move about freely on their respective levels as effortlessly as fish in water. As long as they did not trigger the actual Great Demon Race Trials, they were practically