As the being within the Sea of Lava awakened, the disaster engulfing the entire plane grew ever more intense.
The eruptions became unimaginably terrifying. Pillars of lava shot into the clouds across the land, while the lava rain falling from the sky turned into a torrential downpour. From time to time, enormous clumps of molten rock crashed down like meteors.
The entire plane's "sea level" began to rise, gradually swallowing up what few footholds had once existed.
Yet Angron, Kardum's remaining subordinates, showed not the slightest panic. Instead, they were beside themselves with joy, because they could sense the will of the Abyss.
The will of the Abyss was favoring their master... or rather, they believed it was favoring their master.
As the twenty-first layer of the Abyss, the Sixth Pyre was not a particularly famous plane within the Abyss, much like its master, the Balor King Kardum. The plane's environment was monotonous, consisting entirely of volcanoes and lava lakes. Accordingly, few demons could survive here, which meant that few demons could gather here and the varieties were limited as well. The plane itself was not large either; among the known 666 layers, it ranked below average in size.
In the Abyss, the amount of territory a demon could occupy was directly tied to the strength of the demon lord. Some powerful demons occupied vast planes, or even several planes at once. For example, the six-fingered **, Graz'zt, occupied the forty-fifth, forty-sixth, and forty-seventh layers of the Abyss, collectively known as Azzagrat.
That was because vast territory meant more Abyssal blood pools. These blood pools were deep pits filled with viscous crimson liquid, found throughout the Abyss. They were where all Tanar'ri demons were born. Souls drawn to the Abyss traveled along the River Styx to reach it, then were