The Gaping Maw once again shook the entire Abyss. In the thousands of years since Demogorgon's fall, everyone had nearly forgotten this former center of the Abyss. Of course, that was also because the Gaping Maw had remained sealed off, leaving few able to reach this plane.
But on this very day, the Gaping Maw's might once again reminded people of the terror of being ruled by Demogorgon. More importantly, Graz'zt had failed once again. To be honest, the abyssal demons were rather calm about Graz'zt's inability to become a Demon Prince. They had even grown accustomed to thinking that Graz'zt simply was not cut out for it.
There was no other reason: Graz'zt had failed too many times.
More precisely, Graz'zt always let things fall apart at the most critical moment. Failure itself was nothing—hadn't even someone as powerful as Demogorgon suffered defeats? There had even been a time when his lair had nearly been overrun.
Demogorgon once had many enemies, but the one he loathed most was Fraz-Urb'luu, the Lord of Deception and ruler of the Heart of Deception on the 176th layer of the Abyss. Through misleading deceptions, Fraz-Urb'luu had repeatedly trapped Demogorgon in predicaments and unnecessary conflicts. In return, Demogorgon had often led armies in attacks against the Heart of Deception, the Lord of Deception's domain. At one point, Demogorgon's army had occupied more than half of Fraz-Urb'luu's territory. Just as he was about to deliver the fatal blow, Demogorgon was forced to withdraw, because another of his principal enemies—the Lord of the 480th layer of the Abyss, Zuregurex, Lord of Storms and Drowning—had made his move.
While the Demon Prince was away on campaign, Zuregurex led an army of undead and half-demon elemental creatures in an attack on Lemoriax, a major city in the Gaping