In the scorched wasteland of Avernus, in the Nine Hells, Dis Malson and the other high-ranking devils kept driving their subordinates to gather and wait for the Space-Time Overlap Phenomenon.
Ever since the Devil Lords of the Nine Hells had joined forces to extract the essence of the Hells and sacrifice it to the Main Plane, they had awakened the Original Sins innate to the souls of its living beings. They had seized Gluttony, lust, Greed, Sorrow, Wrath, Sloth, Vanity, and Pride, then handed them all to Asmodeus. A Lord of Original Sin with Divine Rank 18 had thus been born in the Multiverse, and the Nine Hells had entered an age without rulers.
The old rulers had either fallen or changed sides, becoming True Gods instead of Devil Lords. No new Devil Lords had emerged since.
It was not that these high-ranking devils had no desire for a Devil Lord's station. The Nine Hells had simply grown too weak after having their essence extracted to support the birth of one.
They had been prepared to wait ages for the Hells' power to recover. Then, in a Divination, Dis Malson saw war engulf the Sevenfold Heavenly Mountain.
In the future he foresaw, countless demons and devils stormed the Sevenfold Heavenly Mountain, while Evil Gods, Demon Lords, and Elder Evils joined forces to tear it apart.
And he, Dis Malson, tore Lunia, the Silver Heaven, from the mountain during that battle. He dragged that realm, eternally blessed by starlight and moonlight, into the Hells, strengthening them and becoming the Lord of the Nine Hells—a great Evil God of destruction.
The prophecy set his heart pounding.
The Lord of the Nine Hells held a station equal to the Lord of the Bottomless Abyss. But because the Nine Hells were weaker than the