Since primordial times, terror and dread had emerged and merged into one, giving rise to a terrifying force known as Fear Power.
When the Abyss appeared, the invincible Dark Beast Kings descended upon the entire universe with power that made the world tremble. In that age, the Abyss had nearly brought the whole universe to ruin with its invincible Dark Beasts alone.
As time passed, Demons rose and Devil Masters descended. Many powerful Dark Beasts died mysteriously, leaving only a handful of famous Dark Beast Kings.
The King of Fear, the Ankugu Beast, for one. The King of Destruction, Hai, for another. There were other Exotic Beasts as well.
Among them, the Ankugu Beast, like Hai, stood at King-Level among the Dark Beasts. The Fear Power it controlled was not especially potent in attack, but it spread with terrifying ease. Its corrupting nature turned every living creature wherever it went into a Dread Beast.
It was a battlefield meat grinder in every sense of the word.
Since ancient times, after the Destruction Devil Master seized Destruction, a power only Dark Beasts could possess, many Demons had set their sights on the Ankugu Beast. They wanted to control Fear Power and become the king of kings.
Yet no living creature could control that power. No living soul could bear such terrifying emotional force. Once it invaded them, the best outcome was to end up like the Black Dragon Princess. At worst, they became pitiful puppets ruled by fear.
If Baal had not possessed the power of Time and Space and the Taboo Disc of Time and Space to bear it, if he had not fused them into the uncanny power of Void, then the moment he broke through to a certain extreme, fear would have corrupted him and stripped him of