P.S. The Abyss, a severed arm, a missing finger, a riddle—this will take several chapters to tell, so I'm dividing it into parts one, two, three, and so on. These chapters touch on some major mysteries I planted earlier, and I'll make sure to resolve them properly. I haven't stopped updating these past few days; I've been carefully rereading everything I wrote before so I can start resolving those mysteries step by step. Please don't worry. I want to give everyone a better, more satisfying ending, so I can't afford to be careless.
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All the heavens and myriad worlds trembled. As the cracks across the black sun's surface widened, the world began to shake.
Countless streams of magma erupted from beneath the Abyssal Layer. Rifts flickered in the void, the earth tore open, and the sky shattered. In that moment, it seemed the end of the Abyss had come.
"Awooo—"
For some reason, the Abyssal Will began to howl wildly. It hurled itself at the black sun, attacking in a frenzy, as though it meant to tear the sun apart before whatever lay inside could emerge.
It seemed to understand that something was about to be born from the black sun. Not a Devil Master, but something strange that posed a real threat to it. It did not know what that thing was, yet it sensed that it must never be allowed out—even if that meant destroying the Demon within.
Boom—
It struck again. The Abyssal Will began drawing power from every direction without end, as though making one last desperate struggle.
The Demons stared in disbelief. They could not understand why the Abyssal Will wanted to stop the black sun. After hundreds of thousands of years of decline, another great Devil Master might finally arise to lead the