If they wanted to summon evil, the magic ritual would be extremely complicated, and they could not prepare the sacrificial materials at present. But if they wanted to release a demon, it would indeed be as easy as Jesus had said.
The Castro Family was one of the families with considerable experience dealing with demons. Back when it had still been an orthodox Wizard family, its work had always involved sealing demons.
Long ago, when the Castro Family was still an orthodox Wizard family, it had been a model in the eyes of Extraordinaries. It sealed demons, destroyed evil, and saved humanity from peril, doing what most righteous Extraordinaries ought to do. This had continued for hundreds of years.
Yet after that outpouring of magical power, everything had changed. It was not just the Castro Family, but the entire Wizard world. All Wizards had lost control of themselves. No one knew what had happened. Their power had grown to unprecedented heights, and ambition and desire filled their hearts.
God-slaying, domination-they had gone mad.
The Castro Family, whose members were predominantly Wizards, was no exception.
The Castro Family had been the second family to seal a god, after the Attias Family. It should have risen to glory just as the Attias Family had, but the god it sealed had unexpectedly laid a curse upon it, rapidly depleting the Castro Family's reserves.
Only a handful of family members remained, eking out a miserable existence.
Those surviving members were still deeply affected by madness and the curse. They had strayed from the righteous path and chosen the road of evil, becoming pariahs hunted by everyone.
But the Castro Family still had the means to strike fear into the world. For instance, it still held the key to the gate sealing away the demons,