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History was written by the victors. That was true everywhere.
Even in the Abyss, that dark, chaotic world of bloodshed and slaughter, it was no different.
Diabolo sometimes wondered why, of the Thirteen Demon Kings of the Ancient Era, the Wraith Lord alone was reviled throughout the Abyss. Rumor even had it that the other Demon Lords had joined forces to drive him out, leaving his kind to wander the Universe.
Of course, perhaps those Demon Lords had simply wanted to unleash the horror of the Undead Calamity upon the Universe and let it ravage its living beings.
After all, the terrifying Undead Calamities that had swept across the Universe more than once had been staggering.
Countless living beings had become lifeless skeletons. The entire Universe had seemed on the verge of turning into a paradise for the dead. Even demons shuddered at the thought.
The Undead were far more thorough than demons. Wherever they passed, nothing survived.
Whatever the truth, the Wraith Lord was infamous in the Abyss. Even as one of the mightiest of the Thirteen Demon Kings, he had never won the demons' adoration.
On the First Layer of the Abyss, Diabolo unified the Fire Prison, crushed the allied forces, and killed the King of Thunder.
Three months later—
The Ice and Snow Prison fell and was absorbed into the Fire Prison as a subordinate realm.
The vast Ice and Snow Prison became Diabolo's private garden.
A year later—
The Thunder Prison fell. Another elemental prison among the Nine Great Hells landed in Diabolo's clutches.
Countless demons died in that campaign. Some factions secretly sent forces to help the