Thursday, September 6, 2018

Golden Gash!!: Demon Revolution Army (remake) [Chapter 35 - The Fallen King Chapter 13]

Golden Gash!!: Demon Revolution Army user guide




Golden Gash!!: Demon Revolution Army II - The Fallen King


Golden Gash!!: Demon Revolution Army II - The Fallen King, also known as "Konjiki no Gash!!: Mamono no Kakumei-gun II ~Taoreta Ō~ (金色のガッシュ! !:魔物の革命軍II 〜倒れた王〜)" and "Zatch Bell!: Mamodo Revolution Army II - The Fallen King," is a sub-sequel/extension to my Zatch Bell! / Konjiki no Gash (Bell)!! fan fiction, Golden Gash!!: Demon Revolution Army (specifically my remade version), which is a fan sequel to the Zatch Bell!/Konjiki no Gash!! manga series by Makoto Raiku. This new story arc takes place directly after Chapter 16 of my remade storyline in the other timeline, thus branching off from Chapter 17 and onward, which means that this sub-sequel can be read after Chapter 16 (remake) or after the final chapter (Remake: Chapter 22). However, it is recommended to read this story arc after reading the Revolution from the Dead (RftD) story (Remake: Chapters 1722) due to potential spoilers and that The Fallen King (TFK) arc is labeled after the last RftD chapter.

With the defeat of the Laughing Deathstock Gang by the Acolytes of the Nether, the Demon Resistance Army has continued to fight for Former King Gash Bell's rights to the throne. The current King of Demon World in the past timeline is Lord Gul'ren, Necrolyte Dark Lord of the Nether, and he plans on recreating Demon World from the ideals of his deceased brother Zal'gor, who was King of Demon World 10,000 years ago, in his own dark way. A month later, the former young King and his queen-to-be returned from the Human World to Demon World to D.D. Sanctuary, a refuge from a different dimension created by the Royal Knight Lieutenant General D.D. Veni. The war has gone too long and the Resistance Army launches one final battle to determine whether or not Demon World [Planet Terra] is recoverable or the former young King will have to rule on a whole new planet without being connected to Planet Earth of the mortal universe anymore. Will Demon World be restored or will Lord Gul'ren forever rule the planet in his own peace?

Trivia: Franchises that inspired me to make this new story arc are WarcraftStarCraftHarry Potter, and Star Wars (and A Nightmare on Elm Street, particularly for this chapter).

Chapter 35 (The Fallen King Chapter 13): Spirit World Origins


Recap


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Guthorax, former Supreme God of Spirit World, successfully returned to the existing universe from the void of nothingness. Guthorax freed Lord Gul'ren's family and released them into the Spirit World while Warchief Dan'ro Deathscream gained dark divine powers from the Nether God. Both necrolytes with two different purposes battled each other for the reign of Demon World. King Yama and the archangels from Spirit World teleported into the world of the living to stop Guthorax and his plan. King Yama was assassinated by one of Guthorax's nether spirits without Guthorax's permission. However, it was revealed that Guthorax's proxies were not actually his own and were simply using Guthorax for their own resurrection. The nether spirits formed into a long-lost female archdevil known as Adikia, Goddess of Injustice and All That is Evil. What is this strange female archdevil's real purpose and who is Themis, Adikia original archnephalic form? How did Spirit World begin and where did these gods originate?
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Flashback Scene: History of Planet Ishtar and the Twilight Council (over billions of years ago)


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Over billions of Spirit World years ago on the planet Ishtar, a planet of not only demons [mamono], but also a planet unique to another race of sentient creatures: Bird-winged human-like creatures called "angels." For a long time, angels and demons would not get along well. Wars would engage. Blood would shed for years. But not all angels and demons were against each other. Some would form alliances; a peace treaty. Some of these particular angels and demons lived together equally and some even produced offspring of demon-like humanoids with angel wings. They dubbed these hybrids, "nephalem," and they believed that these angel-demon hybrids would bring balance to Planet Ishtar, bringing the long everlasting war to an end. These alliances, however, wouldn't last forever and war broke out again. However, it was prophecised that one day, a creature with the blood of a demon and an angel would bring balance to Ishtar, bringing everlasting peace to not only to Planet Ishtar but to the entire magical universe. This nephalem, known as Guthorax, was the miracle that brought angels and demons back together and formed a religious government (or theocracy) known as the Twilight Council (黄昏評議会, Tasogare Hyōgikai) as its Hierarch. Hierarch Guthorax was hailed as the Planetary God of Ishtar. Peace was restored for the most part. With Guthorax bringing balance to the world as the God of Balance, order and chaos were balanced. Even though peace was restored to Ishtar, chaos would still co-exist alongside peace: Angels and demons would love each other again but arguments and battles would still continue in other places. But regardless of all of the fighting, they respect the theocracy of the Twilight Council, worshipping the Hierarch Guthorax for all the things the messiah has done for the world.

However, there was still one more thing that was left to bring into balance: Life and Death. An afterlife world did not exist and spirits of deceased demons and angels (even across all planets) would still be roaming among the living, floating and flying in the sky around their planet with their ethereal soul. It became too much for each habitable planet to handle at the time. As the God of Balance, Guthorax wished to bring forth a balance for the dead and the living and with the rightful amount of priests in his council with powers beyond death, Spirit World would be that answer.

"Current status within the dimensional warp hole, Father Yama?" Guthorax approached his fellow priests of the Twilight Council. "Ahh, Hierarch—Guthorax-sama... We estimated that the new world will be a success and should be established within the next month or so." Yama the Enma and the other priests were busy creating a new world. Other priests of the Twilight Council that are working on this afterlife project are the angel Saturn, Saturn's angelic wife Ops, and a fleshed-out demon with a neutral heart. To ensure balance, at least one of each of the three races with similar minds should be part of the Twilight Council. The Twilight Council appears to be an outdoor area with crazy paving paths, stone pillars in a circle in the central room with a magical portal above it, and stone stairs leading up to the throne. Hierarch Guthorax looked in the dark sky that is filled with millions of deceased angel and demon souls and said while holding his hands behind his back, "All these poor souls. Nowhere to go but fly through the æther. Not only on this planet but throughout the rest of the habitable planets. I feel sorry for them."

The demonic priest that was helping with Father Yama's dimensional port said, "I still wonder if I'm the only demon who has returned to life. As the Priest of Undeath, I believe that all sentient beings should have a second chance in life." Yama said while working on his new world spiritually, "Don't forget that I, as your teacher and the Priest of Death, was the one who taught you such power." Guthorax respected the demon priest's thoughts but said, "I respect your decision, Lich, but they'll have a new wondrous life, once the new world is established." Father Lich responded, "As you wish, Our Gracefulness." Hierarch Guthorax responded, "Carry on," and left to his throne at the top of the staircase just to look closer to the night sky with spirits flying around.

Father Lich is the neutral demon that would eventually become a chaotic neutral archdevil-like being known as the Lich King, God of Undeath, but he is currently the ambassador for demons on Planet Ishtar. Ops, who is Saturn's wife and the Priestess of Earth and Fertility, said, "I also like your idea, Lich. For everyone to have a second chance in life, but we must let a balance carry their destiny. Hmm-hmm!" She chuckles happily. Lich nodded in agreement even though he would have preferred otherwise. Father Lich said, "Still, if I wasn't here, representing for the demons, wars would still break out. Same with your husband, representing for the angels. But I do thank Enma-dono for his teachings and vouching for me as the demon ambassador after I was resurrected." Yama said, "You know, you no longer need to call me by my nickname, Father Lich. You are one of us, as equals. No longer are you my student." Father Lich agreed, "Yes, Father Yama." Father Saturn said, "As the Priest of Time, despite our efforts, I can still predict conflicts in the future. Despite coinciding with the demons, the angels still fear the demon race, still having a hard time trusting them." Lich wondered, "But you still trust me, right, Father Saturn?" Saturn said, "You have been a blessing to all of us, Father Lich, but I still see a clouded future in your head. Please, be careful of the path you choose." Lich said, "I'll let destiny decide my own fate."

Hierarch Guthorax walked down the stairs and said, "Excuse me." Yama wondered, "Guthorax-sama?" Guthorax said, "Please, continue. I'll be back momentarily... Just for a stroll," and left the council. "Be careful, Your Graceful One," said Yama.
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Flashback Scene: A village on Planet Ishtar (nighttime)


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In a nearby village with a church, a pregnant angelic nun walked out of a church of the Twilight Council and before closing the wooden front door, an angelic priest in the church said, "Mother Themis, wait! Do you want me to walk you home?" The angelic pregnant nun said, "Oh, don't worry about me, Father Marlin. I may be pregnant but I'll be fine." Father Marlin said, "You know, it is not safe out at night. You know what happened to your husband the other night. I want to make sure your—" Mother Themis said, "I know, I know. You are such a good gentleman, but I'd rather be alone tonight." The priest nearly closed the church door and said, "May His Divine Majesty bless upon thee," and closed the door.
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As Mother Themis was returning home, holding her stomach, a group of a dozen scary evil demons laughed across from her home, "Err-hahahahaha!" Mother Themis looked shocked, "Oh, my!" One of the devilish-looking demons looked upon Themis lustfully, "Hehe! Where do you think you're going?" Mother Themis was scared. Another devilish demon glomped on her and said, "You must be one hot Mother." Mother Themis was scared for a second but struggled, "Oof! Get off! Help! HEL—" Mother Themis tried calling for help until the criminal on top of her casted the Stunning Charm, "Zálisma [ζάλισμα, Greek for "Stun"]!" paralyzing her movement momentarily that she wasn't able to shout. During that time, the criminals ganged up on the nun. She was being sexually attacked by this group of evil demons and one of them said, "Let's do something about that baby of yours, baby. Gonimopoió!" Suddenly, waves of light and darkness struct around them as a warning and a loud shout ordered them, "ENOUGH!" As the demonic criminals turn around, they got scared, "Ehh? His... His Divine Majesty?! RUN!!!" and hauled off in an instant, fearing what may happen to them. Mother Themis was aching on the ground, "Ohhhh... Ouch!" Guthorax approached her and asked, "Are you okay, young mistress?" and helped her up.

Mother Themis was surprised and she blushed as she saw Guthorax's handsome bald face, "Ohh, Your Divine Gracefulness. Thank you so very much. Oof! Ohh! My womb." Guthorax could sense two unborn souls within the nun's belly, "They placed the Impregnancy Charm on you. Gonimopoió [γονιμοποιώ, Greek for "Impregnant"]... You're... You're carrying twins." Mother Themis was surprised, "Twins?! Oh, I thought it was just one, a baby angel girl. I can't believe this is happening? He was right, I shouldn't have gone alone. Ohh, what am I going to do? Ouch!" She felt pain in her womb. Guthorax was worried, "Young Mother?" Mother Themis said, "What's going to happen to me?" Guthorax said, "I sense a great evil presence among your baby and they appear to be... merging." Mother Themis was scared, "Oh, no! Please, don't tell me that to be true. What should I do?" Guthorax suggested, "You're Mother Themis from the nearest church, right? Come back with me to the council. We'll see what we can do but we must make haste." Mother Themis thanked her Lord, "Thank you, Your Gracefulness. Thank you so much," but she was sad and worried, "I can't believe this is happening to me." Guthorax was curious about the nun's babies, Hmm... I never saw anything like it. How they impregnated their evil soul into her body. The second soul, a demon soul, merging with the angelic child. It's not going to be an ordinary nephalem, that's for sure. A mutant nephalem with two souls... two personalities. Their growth rates are increasing rapidly, especially that new one at an unbelievable rate. She's going to give birth really soon. Father Saturn can slow down the birthing process with if we hurry.
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The Hierarch opens a black portal with his left hand while escorting the pregnant nun, "Hurry, in here. We'll get back to—" "Ohhh!" It was already too late; the nun is about to give birth to the mutant nephalem. Without any more hesitation, Guthorax quickly took Mother Themis into the portal back to the Twilight Council's central chamber. "Hierarch?" Mother Ops asked. Father Saturn asked, "What's going on?" Hierarch Guthorax tried asking Saturn hastely, "No time to explain but Father Saturn, can you—" "Ahh! Oof!" Mother Themis couldn't take it anymore. The curse aged the embryo too fast that she is already giving birth to the mutant nephalem of good and evil. The priests were shocked and Mother Themis screamed for her life, "AAAAHHHHH!!!" The baby was born immediately and Mother Themis appears to be unresponsive. Mother Ops was worried, "D-did she?!" Guthorax checks her pulse and responded, "There's nothing we can do for her but..." Mother Themis died from her abnormal childbirth.

The female mutant nephalem cried but it appeared to have no eyes... no tears to be able to fall down her red cheek lines... The baby also had four colored angel wings; two light blue wings on top and two light red wings on bottom. The priests and the Hierarch were speechless. Guthorax picked up the blinded female mutant baby nephalem and wondered about it. Ops wondered, "A baby nephalem?" Saturn said, "I feel goodness but grave evil within that child." Lich wondered, "Am I sensing two souls... in one body? What is it?" Guthorax said, "She's cursed. She was supposed to be an angel. Mutated and fused with a demon soul of pure evil. What did those demons do to her?" Suddenly, the baby stopped crying. An evil purple-color eyeball slowly appeared in the baby's left eye socket and her four angel wings were darkening in red. The baby made an evil laugh, "Hee-hahahaha," for a second before turning back to normal and scared, crying again, "Arrrr-herr-herr-herr!" That was creepy... and spooky... The priests were astounded and Yama wondered, "What was that?" Suddenly, her red cheek lines beneath her eyeholes were disappearing and her wings were turning light blue for a second as she was acting afraid before turning back nephalem. The mutant nephalem was struggling between demon and angel. Guthorax and the others were shocked.

"What is this madness?" Father Yama asked while building the Spirit World. Guthorax magically summoned a towel around the scared child and said, "She's struggling between angel and demon." Father Yama said, "That is one strange nephalem. She is nothing like you and me, Guthorax-sama." Guthorax looked at Mother Themis's corpse. Themis's soul finally appeared out of her body and cried, "Oh that poor child. Please, protect that child for me. I wanted to name my baby angel Dikē before she was cursed. Don't let her turn. That evil spirit... Adikia, I'll call it. Please don't let my baby girl turn into that." After naming her mutant children's personalities, Themis's soul flew into the air with the rest of the dead spirits. Guthorax said, "Farewell, young nun. And I shall call their fusion after you, Themis. As the God of Balance and Hierarch of Ishtar, I'll do my best to keep her personalities in balance." Baby Themis Jr. stopped crying is just making baby noises, "Hee-hee-hee-hoo!" as the Hierarch held her in his arms.

Flashback Scene: Twilight Council (a month later)


For the rest of the month in Ishtar time, the priests finally finished constructing the insides of the Spirit World from the outside of the portal, "Hierarch, it's finally finished," Father Yama told Guthorax. Guthorax walked to the central chamber with baby Themis sleeping in his arms. Mother Ops was distracted by the mutant baby, "Ooh, she is so adorable! You are not going spooky again, are you? No jumpscares?" Yama said to the Hierarch, "Because of the massive popularity of dead spirits across all planets, we've decided to create a second realm in Spirit World so far." Guthorax asked, "Still, the Spirit World will inhabit all of these deceased spirits from above, right?" Father Yama said, "Just enough, but there will be a time when we need to build a third realm but like you said, you want to bring balance between life and death as soon as possible and the time is right." Guthorax said, "Very well. For now on, all life that shall die—no matter where they are—this will be their new home."

Flashback Scene: All over Planet Ishtar and the Twilight Council (next noon)


A day later, thousands of living angels and demons of Ishtar gathered to the bottom of the Twilight Council's entry staircase for a meeting. Millions of other angels and demons viewed through visionary globes in the sky for this announcement by their Hierarch deity, "Greetings angels, demons, nephalems of Ishtar. For a long time ever since the creation of life, death has lived among the living—not only on this planet but on many other habitable planets. As time progressed in this universe, the deceased has been overly populated the universe. To bring balance to life and death, we of the Twilight Council have finally created a whole new world; an afterlife world we would like to call the Spirit World. I, Guthorax, Hierarch and founder of the Twilight Council, God of Ishtar, and God of Balance, have been chosen as the Supreme God of this new world and as the God of Balance, I'll bring balance to the entire universe: Life and death, light and darkness, order and chaos, good and evil... So far, we've developed two afterlife worlds that'll occupy these deceased souls; the middle, we dub 'Spirit World Kingdom', which will be ruled under Father Yama the Enma's rule as a King and the judge of newcomers—and the top, we dub 'Paradise,' which will be ruled under Father Saturn's rule, also as a King and his wife Ops will be joining as his queen in that realm. A nephalem ruling the bottom while an angel ruling the top. Yes, Spirit World is not yet balanced and we wish to separate the good from the evil. Unfortunately, we don't have enough time to create a third realm so all dead that is neutral and evil will be living among the Kingdom. To counter this imbalance, our demon ambassador, Lich, will be serving as head of security in the Kingdom, occupying the evil in the Kingdom. Meanwhile, all that is good, will have true freedom up in the holy realm of Paradise. The Spirit World is made of pure divine energy that flows through the entire existing universe, known as æther, and æther lives through all of us, among the living and the dead. The divine energy within Spirit World will help us transcend into divine beings and as gods of the universe, we'll do everything in our power to ensure balance is spread throughout the entire universe. We'll continue watching over Ishtar from the other side. Now then, Father Yama, Father Lich..."

On top of the largest mountain near the Twilight Council, Yama asked his former demon apprentice Lich, "Ready?" Lich replied, "At once." Yama the Priest of Death and Lich the Priest of Undeath reached their hands to the sky with millions of spirits floating above them. All the spirits within Planet Ishtar gathered inside the large magical portal leading to the Spirit World. The deceased spirits on other planets were magically be teleported inside Spirit World. All angels and demons of Ishtar looked very surprised. Many of them were sad that they wouldn't be able to see their beloved ones within the living world anymore but they'll grow to understand.

Flashback Scene: Spirit World Kingdom of Spirit World (over 100,000 Ishtar years later)


Supreme God Guthorax, now an archnephalem—appearing similar to his nephalic form but titan-sized—is seen meditation in front of divine waterfalls, sitting above the divine grounds in front of a lake. He is levitating from the ground, meditation in the air. He appears to be one truly in balance.

Meanwhile King Yama the Enma was busy judging deceased demons of other planets which realm they belong in: Spirit World Kingdom for neutral and evil demons or Paradise for purely good demons. Devils were not a thing yet. Lich, warden of Spirit Prison and head of security, was referred to as an archdemon (大魔物 dai mamono), and so was Adikia back then. The term "archdevil" (大悪魔, dai akuma) wasn't used for demonic deities until the Netherworld was created (it wouldn't be for several hundred thousand years later). Lich was the only known archdemon/archdevil with a neutral heart and because he wasn't born with angelic traits, he did not become an archnephalem upon ascension.

Lich, God of Undeath, has undead demon soldiers serving as security guards in the Prison, securing demons that were imprisoned for their crimes they committed in life or in the Kingdom. Lich lost a lot of skin and flesh (or all of his flesh) from his bones after transcending from demon to archdevil (or "archdemon") that he appears as a horned skeleton in dark wizarding robe. He uses Soul Curses to create and summon undead soldiers to guard the prisoners but he can also use Soul Curses to torture criminal souls. Very fitting as a prison warden for the deceased and this was before the Netherworld was built, but the Netherworld is currently under construction since the Spirit Prison is getting a bit too crowded. Lich is also capable of manipulating souls normally or resurrecting people through Soul Æther, just like King Yama, the God of Death. Even though he summons undead beings through Soul Curses, his undead beings are rather neutral than evil and they get along well with innocent nephalems and angels, ironically enough.

Despite blessings benefiting angels and archangels and curses benefiting devils and archdevils/archdemons, blessings and curses are technically neither good nor evil despite how they sound, but their effects depend on the user's race (and the target's race if applicable) and the archdevil/archdemon Lich uses his Soul Curses for balance.

As for the mutant Themis Jr., it seems the baby Themis has aged very well into an archnephalic adult. However, since Themis transcended from a nephalic mutant into an archnephalic mutant, the ascension also transcended her angelic Dikē personality into an archangel of good and the demonic Adikia personality into an archdevil of evil and the balance between them seems to be troubling her still. Right now, Themis Jr. serves as the Goddess of Justice and Morality, judging people for their deeds within the Spirit World Kingdom. Because of that, she is also the commander of the Nephalem Military Police Force, the military who keeps crime watch within the Kingdom, which was originally Lich's role until little Themis grew strong enough and ascended. While King Yama judges newcomers for their deeds in the living, Themis judges residents' deeds within the Kingdom.

Themis approaches the Supreme God while Guthorax was meditating, "Master, my apologies for interrupting again, but I require your guidance again." Guthorax opened his eyes and wondered, "Is Adikia stirring trouble again? I see you are very well unbalanced, my student." Themis still appeared to be blinded as eye bandages were wrapped around her head, above her pointy red ears. Themis said, "I worry about my soldiers. Dikē is growing very weak inside me. It's only a matter of time until—" Supreme God Guthorax said, "Relax. Stay calm. Erase all thoughts in your mind. Concentrate. There, you will find balance." Themis was still feeling stressed, "I already harmed thirty of my most trusted good soldiers. I'm not a good military commander as Lich was. It's only a matter of time until my soldiers lose their faith and trust in m—" Guthorax strictly told her, "Enough!" but said calmly, "Complaints and negativity will only feed the dark within you, making Adikia stronger. You need more light and positivity to heal Dikē, and become balance with yourself." Themis's archangel side Dikē resembles closely to Themis, being blinded, but Dikē resembles more like a human angel with less curly hair. Themis said, "Your right, I'll try again. I may not be a good leader of the military as Lich was, but—" Guthorax stopped her speech again, "Say no more." Themis stopped speaking and instead nodded and left him to his meditation.

Within Themis's mind, her evil persona Adikia spoke, hehe! Why fight it? Isn't this more fun? Also within Themis's mind, the good sister Dikē replied, no, it isn't. Why can't you ever be nice? The Goddess of Injustice taunts her older twin sister, You goody two-shoes, big sister. You'll never learn. If you ever think justice will ever prevail, you're wrong. Hehehahaha! Ooh, you'll be surprised for my next scheme; it'll be the biggest one yet. Dikē cried, please, stop!

Scene: Paradise Palace of Spirit World


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Saturn, the God of Time, rules over the throne of Paradise in the holy palace. His wife Ops, the Goddess of Earth and Fertility, ruled over by his side as his queen. The two archangels recently had three baby angels (or "cupids") including Pluto (the oldest brother, and he had light red angel wings at the time), Neptune (the middle brother), and Jupiter (the youngest brother). Ops was holding baby Jupiter in her arms while Pluto was playing with toys with his younger brother Neptune. Pluto was currently the only brother sentient enough with minimal knowledge while Neptune and Jupiter are still developing from infancy but even as a baby, Pluto tries teaching his little brother at times. They were so adorable back then.

At the moment while Pluto was playing with the Cupid of Water Neptune, Pluto takes an unlit candle and said in an adorable baby voice, "Neppy, look what I do. He!" Pluto conjured a small Fire Blessing spell from the tip of his right baby index finger and lit the candle with holy fire. Neptune looks... amused, "Ooh," but he can't speak yet.

King Saturn asked his oldest son, "Hmm... Fire Blessing, already? Impressive." Pluto responded, "Thanks, Daddy," but Saturn asks, "But be careful. Playing with magic can be very dangerous, even if it's just Blessing, white and holy Spirit World magic we developed." Prince Pluto responded, "Okay. But me strong for cupid. Cupid of Fire. Maybe one day me king." Saturn wondered with a smile, "We'll see." Ironically, Pluto would eventually be rejected from the title of Paradise King, which would lead to a path to darkness and evil. At the moment, Saturn can't see that far into the future to know their children's fates as they are currently clouded. Queen Ops smiled, "Maybe it could be your baby brother, Juppy. Hmhm!" Pluto was upset, "But I'm oldest." Even as a baby angel [cupid], Pluto is arrogant. Saturn said, "We'll see. It's still too early, Pluto. Maybe in the next hundred thousand years or so, then maybe I'll decide."

Queen Ops has something on her mind and Saturn noticed, "Something on your mind, dear?" Queen Ops said, "It's been a while since I visited Ishtar." Saturn asks, "Going back?" Queen Ops said, "I am the Goddess of Earth and I am a high priestess of the New Twilight Council. Ooh, I must make haste!" King Saturn said, "Well, may I have our little Cupid of Lightning?" Ops gave Jupiter to her husband and said, "There, there, Juppy. Daddy will play with you. I'll be back. You'll be good for me, will you? Of course, you will! Hmhmhmhm!" Jupiter laughs in a cute baby voice as he looks up to his happy, chubby mother, "Eee-hahahaha!" Even though Jupiter is still way too young to learn any blessing, Saturn knows that he'll eventually learn Lightning Blessing. He can see a little bit into the future (but not for everything) despite being the God of Time.

Scene: Nephalem Military Police Force Barracks of Spirit World Kingdom


At the military police barracks in the Kingdom, something was going on. A high-ranked nephalic soldier asked, "Themis-dono, are you alright?" Themis was looking bummed, sitting in a chair, but tries to get back into a neutral expression, "Oh, I'm alright. I'm so sorry I can't control myself." Another soldier whispered to a different soldier, "So, when is the next time she'll go berserk? I really can't take her anymore." The soldier responded quietly, "Yeah, she can be really scary when she lets loose and she's supposed to be our Goddess of Justice. I'd much prefer it when her devilish side torture the wicked in Lich's prison when he doesn't do his job." Another nephalic soldier yelled at the two soldiers quietly, "Will you guys can it? You're only encouraging that to happen."

Meanwhile in Themis mind, yes, encourage me, why don't you? Adikia is plotting something again, but something big. Themis stood up from her chair and said, "I'm going out for a bit. Sorry, everyone." The third soldier scolded the other ones, "Now look at what you did!"

Sometimes, Themis (as the archdemon/archdevil "Adikia") would sneak in the Spirit Prison to torture the wicked for fun (and not for justice as she is "injustice") and Lich isn't too thrilled about her methods of punishment and would often boot Adikia out of his prison when she goes too far. Lich does punish the wicked himself at times with Soul Curse: Soul Torture or with his undead guards at times but at least he has standards and is fairer. Despite that, Lich was often referred to at the most feared deity in Spirit World at the time but it's mostly due to his intimidating appearance, being fleshless and having his creepy horned skull and skeletal hands revealed. Or perhaps Adikia's sexual devilish appearance has appealed many dead criminals that they don't mind being tortured by her, regardless of how brutal it is.

Scene: Judgment Hall in Spirit World Kingdom to...


Queen Ops exited through Paradise Gates back down to Spirit World Kingdom and asked King Yama the Enma at the Judgment Hall, "Yama-san, I'll be leaving for a few years for the New Twilight Council. Can you let Guthorax-sama know?" Yama replied, "Very well. I'll let him know when I have the chance." Before Ops left, she asked him, "By the way, why don't you take a break from your job? That looks very tiring." Yama stated while stamping a report paper for a deceased demon soul, "You know I cannot do that. I no longer have that kind of freedom while judging newcomers all day, every day. Paradise! Next!"

It's quite a line in Yama's office. Lots of demon souls that died across the entire universe lined up to be judged and placed. Millions of dead demons and other magical beings line up every day and Yama has no vacation time because of it. Demons with that have committed more evil deeds than good deeds will temporarily be placed in the Spirit Prison under Warden Lich's care until their sins are "cleaned" via Lich's punishments (or "overly cleaned" through Adikia's unwanted torture). After that, the "cleansed" wicked would be living among the neutrals in the Kingdom with their own homes until they start committing crimes again.

As Ops exits the Judgment Palace and opens a dimensional portal and as she entered the portal, someone in the background was watching her with an evil smile. Very suspicious...
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Scene: Corruption World


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Suddenly, Ops ended up in... an unexpected world and Ops is very confused, "What on Ishtar is this?" It wasn't Planet Ishtar. She appeared to be in a whole new world but a dreadful, empty world; one that no one could ever imagine. Suddenly, her body was starting to decay and tear away, "Ahh! What's going on? Ouch! My body?" Ops tried opening another dimensional portal back to Spirit World but it didn't work, "Huh?" but she tried again with its incantation, "Dimension Æther: Dimensional Portal. Dimension Æther: Dimensional Portal!" Strangely, it didn't work. "Why? WHY?! Someone, help! Where am I? HELP! Aa-ooooooh!!!" Ops is panicking as her body is deteriorating in this strange, corrupted world. This world appears to be distorted with mixed brown and black backgrounds in motion. What is this place?

Scene: Paradise in Spirit World Kingdom


Paradise King Saturn was feeling uneasy all of a sudden, "Hmm?!" He doesn't know what happened to his wife but what he does know, he knows that Ops didn't return to Planet Ishtar and he feels like he's never seeing Ops again. Cupid Pluto asked his father while holding an angel doll, "Daddy, something wrong?" Saturn hopes he's wrong and lied, "Oh? Everything's fine." Pluto asked, "When mama coming back?" Saturn lied in hopes he's wrong, "Don't worry. She'll be fine. She may be back in a few years." Pluto said, "Okay," and went off playing with his younger brothers.

Scene: Somewhere in Spirit World Kingdom


An evil-looking deity in silhouette thought to herself, fwaha! I think my testing went well. If I did it right she should be in the Corruption World [腐敗界, Fuhaikai] I found. She'll die a slow painful death and there is no returning back to Spirit World. Now to test my Morality Curses. Let's see what my powers can really do. It's Adikia succubus-like archdemon/archdevil body. She has taken over Themis's mind and body. What is this next scheme? Also, poor Ops. So that's what happened to Saturn's wife.
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Scene: Spirit Prison in Spirit World Kingdom


Warden Lich is currently at his desk in the dark Spirit Prison. Suddenly, hundreds of nephalic soldiers entered through the dark prison gates with many insane demons captured and the first nephalic soldier said, "Lich-sama. A large group of demons terrorizing the town." Warden Lich asks, "Another one this week? It's only a matter of time until my prison is full. I don't have enough cells for all these sinners. Try fitting them in with the rest and stay cautious. They started getting... nasty lately. It's a frenzied mess in there." Lich gets off of his giant dark chair and leaves his dreaded-looking desk and the first nephalic soldier wondered what he was doing, "Lich-sama?" Warden Lich said, "Do your work. I've got business with Enma-dono."

Scene: Judgment Palace in Spirit World Kingdom


Lich teleported to the Judgment Palace through smoke. Some nephalic guards in the palace were jumpscared seeing the undead archdemon/archdevil popping up in front of them. As King Yama was still judging demon souls, he wondered, "Lich? Something wrong?" Lich responded, "Enma-dono, how's the third realm coming along? For the sinners?" Yama wasn't in a good mood, "Look, Lich, I've been too busy judging souls and this is my job as King of Spirit World Kingdom and as the God of Death. The Netherworld is still in development but of course, you'll be King of the Netherworld, as an archdemon like yourself. Why do you need it now? Kingdom! Next!" Yama continues to judge souls while conversing with his former student. Lich said, "The prison is getting overcrowded." Yama said, "Already? Then free some of them already." Lich explained, "None are in a good position to be free with their current mental attitude. I fear for the Kingdom." Lich said, "Do something about it, why don't you? You are the prison warden. Paradise, next!" Lich said with a small temper, "Fine..." and teleported back to the prison by disappearing into smoke.

Scene: Spirit Prison in Spirit World Kingdom


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Lich reappeared in his infernal Spirit Prison through a slow poof of smoke and noticed that every demonic and nephalic prisoner that were berserking in their prison cells were metamorphosing into an even more demonic creature known as "devil" (悪魔, akuma)—turning red and growing bat wings (or changing angel wings to bat wings) and spear-shaped tails. They broke out of their cells and destroyed Lich's undead guards. Lich was surprised by this, "A riot? And they are morphing... What is this madness?" Warden Lich was not going to stand around but as soon as moved a few feet, Lich was caught in some kind of magical stasis trap, shocking and immobilizing him, "Ehh! What's this?" He was then transported to another world.

A female laughed evilly loud, "Ah-hahahaha! You fell right into my trap. Goodbye, Lich. This archdemon... no archdevil is taking over. Your prisoners are now my devils to control." The archdevil Adikia reveals herself from the shadows. "Two down, three to go. I shall give Master a visit." A red devil asked, "What shall we do, Mistress?" Adikia said, "Make the city red. Have fun with your little chaos." The devil prisoners laughed in excitement and rushed out of the prison. Adikia teleports out of the prison. During the riot, Adikia was thinking about her actions, "Hmm... Actually, I wish I could have tested my moral powers on Lich-sama since he was archdemon... archdevil... Oh well, let's see how my powers fair well against a deity of absolute equilibrium. Hmhmhm! This'll be a huge challenge." She then disappears from the prison.

While the prison was emptying, there appear to be a few bones of the Warden Lich lurking in the prison. These remaining bones hid in Spirit World and later in appeared the living worlds.

Scene: Corruption World


Lich appeared in the Corruption World as well, "What? Where am—? This is the Corruption World. The forbidden world that I used to use to delete the most dangerous of sinners of universal threat. That blasted Adikia, I can't let her vile schemes become a success. How can I warn Enma-dono and His Divine—" As Lich was looking around the desecrated brown world, he found Paradise Queen Ops floating unconsciously and her body is slowly deteriorating. "Ops-dono?!" Lich hovered towards her body and said, "What's she doing here? Darn you, Adikia. Urgh... Her living body won't last in this wretched world, even as a deity, and will disappear into nothingness. Fortunately, my undead body is resistant to the effects of these decaying particles, but even I won't last eternally, and our souls will corrode. Not to worry Ops. I'll take care of you and find a way out of this defiled world. As long as my remains still exist among the living, I'll find a way to get us out. The least I can do is keep you alive, even if sacrifices must be made. Err, and you were supposed to be at the New Twilight Council."

This explains Lich's actions when he organized dreadlords all over planets to do his bidding. Lich finds them with his bones that remained in Spirit World and in the living worlds. All the sacrifices his dreadlords made were actually meant to keep Paradise Queen Ops alive in the Corruption World, more so than himself. But despite the "evil actions" he has done, he was more selfless and caring than he appeared to be. He has used most of the demon sacrifices to keeps Ops alive rather than himself and in order to get out of the Corruption World, Lich used the last of his powers to give Malfournis an eye that would potentially grow to be strong enough to free Lich and Ops from the Corruption World. As weak as Lich became, he had to find a demon host for himself and Ops in the living world. That host became Gul'ren and Lich infused himself along with Ops inside Gul'ren. To do that, Lord Gul'ren, with the help of two of the Lich King's servants—Zon'mortuis and Stalghor—used their powers to bring forth the Lich King (and Ops) into Demon World and sealed them inside Gul'ren.

The Lich King had no choice as his undead divine body grew too weak by then and even to this day, the Lich King was still recovering inside Lord Gul'ren while the Goddess of Earth Ops was sealed inside the Lich King. The Lich King wouldn't be able to survive in the living worlds in his condition as he was beyond death... beyond undeath... Only unholy grounds that isn't the Corruption World could properly heal his undead body and he was unable to heal properly until Gul'ren took over Demon World as King. In the present time, Lich is nearly complete...

Scene: Guthorax's Meditation Grounds in Spirit World Kingdom of Spirit World


Meanwhile, devils were attacking cities of the Kingdom. During meditation, Supreme God Guthorax became aware of the situation, "So, she has given to her dark side. Adikia, you shall be stopped for disrupting the balance." Guthorax opens his serious-looking eyes and stands up.

Scene: Judgment Palace in Spirit World Kingdom


While Spirit King Yama was busy with his job, judging newcomers' souls, he thought he felt a strange presence, "Hmm?" Something didn't seem right to him.

Scene: Guthorax's Meditation Grounds in Spirit World Kingdom of Spirit World


Guthorax hears an evil female laugh surrounding him, "Hahahaha!" Guthorax said, "Adikia, show yourself." Adikia reveals herself in front of him, "My-my. Learn to have fun, Master. Come get me if you can." Adikia then disappears with an evil laugh, "Hahahahaha!" Guthorax chases after her through teleportation too. "Adikia? Adikia?!" One of the nephalic soldiers that found Guthorax said, "Your... Your Divine Majesty! Demons from the prison attacking the city. Millions! Some of our soldiers were acting weird and transforming. Ugh? Ahh!" The nephalic soldier was suddenly killed by something unknown and Guthorax became worried, "Urgh?" He then shouted, "Adikia, stop this attack. Adikia!"

Adikia's voice somewhere in the area said, "Only if you can beat me so come play with me." Guthorax shouted, "This is not a game. You're disrupting the balance of Spirit World."

After a few minutes of chasing Adikia while stopping hundreds of savage devils with his Twilight Æther, Guthorax was starting to feel more agitated by the minute. Meanwhile, during the chase, Adikia was destroying divine city buildings while remaining invisible and undetected and townfolks are running away. Slowly but surely, Guthorax, who was supposed to be the God of Balance, was becoming... unbalanced emotionally. "Adikia, I'm getting tired of this nonsense. Call of your evil demons, or I'll..." Adikia taunted him, "Or you'll what? Kill me? Banish me? You don't have the guts!"

Suddenly, Guthorax became a bit enraged, "Aaaargh! Don't make me do this to you. Twilight Æther: Twilight Trident [黄昏霊気:黄昏三叉槍, Tasogarereiki: Tasogare Sansasō]!" Guthorax shot three laser beams of mixed divine light and divine darkness æther that homed on Adikia. Adikia keeps dodging them while hiding her presence in the æther of the city and Guthorax destroyed some buildings. Right now to the civilians and soldiers from their eyes, it seems like Guthorax is the terrorist as they can't see or sense Adikia.

Scene: Paradise Palace in Spirit World's Paradise


King Saturn of Paradise looks devastated when he feels and sees the chaos happening below in the Kingdom, "Argh!" Utter shocked and speechless.

Scene: A divine city in Spirit World Kingdom


Yama teleported in the city to see Guthorax's twilight attacks blasting through the city, "What is this madness? Your Divine Majesty?" Guthorax locked onto Adikia where he managed to detect her and actually impaled and revealed... Dikē?! "M-Master?! W-why?!" She cried in pain. King Yama was shocked and so was Guthorax, "Dikē?" The Archangel of Justice disappeared into spiritual particle but Adikia's laugh was still heard inside Guthorax's head, "Hahahahaha!" Guthorax's mind was in confusion as he holds his hands to his head. King Yama shouted, "Your Divine Majesty? How could you? This mess?!" Guthorax made a loud shout that created a divine shockwave of chaotic light and darkness energies, destroying more buildings in the divine city and accidentally killing some residents. King Yama resisted the effects. King Yama can't believe what he is seeing, "I can't believe this! Just... why?"

Guthorax rage became uncontrollable through Adikia's influence. She may be considered temporarily dead and is still respawning, but her powers are still very active, but mostly onto Guthorax at this point as the devils are starting to calm a little. Morality Curse: Evil Influence (道徳呪:悪感化, Dōtokunoroi: Aku Kanka) is the curse Adikia used, which forces anyone's minds with a negative mind or heart to become evil or chaotic and this curse can cause demons, nephalems, or angel to metamorphose into a devil, which is now a new race of Spirit World beings. But being the God of Balance, Guthorax tries to fight the Evil Influence in his mind and preventing himself from changing into archdevil, but it's already too late for him. King Yama takes action as Guthorax mindlessly charges after him. "Guthorax-sama, don't make me do this!" Guthorax tries to warn King Yama but said it in a raging tone rather than in the neutral voice he wanted, "Get out of my way!" King Yama took it as a threat, "I'm sorry to do this but it's for your own good. Dimension Æther: Dimensional Portal!" and created a portal in front of him where Guthorax flew into. The portal that leads to nothingness... a void beneath the Netherworld. For some unknown reasons, some of Themis's spiritual particles warped into the dimensional portal too... perhaps on their own will?

King Yama was sad for his actions, "I can't believe you of all people, the God of Balance would do something horrible like this. I'm sorry but you left me no choice but to banish you to the void."

Scene: Paradise Palace


In Paradise, King Saturn too cannot believe what "Guthorax did." His oldest son Pluto wondered what was wrong with his father, "Daddy?" As a child he is, he was completely clueless to what is happening in the realm below. Saturn kept it silent to himself.

Note that back then, even though Saturn is the God of Time, the power to rewind or revert time via Time Æther: Revert hasn't been developed yet and even if Saturn were to figure out how sooner, it's already too late; he would only be able to revert time to the point where he first masters the rewind of time. Though when Saturn did learn and master Revert, he eventually found out the hard way of the limits of his powers and he couldn't stop these events from happening. Even Spirit World deities have limits when manipulating the space-time continuum. Time has existed before the God of Time existed, ironically.

Scene: Void Beneath the Netherworld


When the Supreme God found himself into a world of nothingness, he finally calmed down but felt devastated and lost when he found himself in complete darkness, "No... The void? Yama? Why? Of all places? Why the void?" His temper slightly went lose again but he tried to calm down. Suddenly, he noticed a few of Themis's spiritual particles that traveled in the void with him, saying to him in a sad and nice tone, "Master?" Guthorax was surprised, "Uh?! Dikē?" Dikē, even though she is broken spiritual particles, was crying from the inside, "Master..." Guthorax said, "I can't believe Yama would do such a thing. Why the void? Dimensional Æther: Dimensional Portal." Guthorax tried opening a portal but just as he thought, it didn't work, "Just as I thought, anything can enter the void but nothing can escape. Yama, you fool. There were other ways. Did you not notice the situation or were you naïve?" While he can't physically though Themis's spiritual particles, he still gently placed his hands under them, "Don't worry, I'll take care of you, Dikē... Themis... I don't even sense her presence. She must still be among the æther, somewhere." Guthorax stares into the distant black world with random rock platforms and such floating along. "In the realm of nothingness beneath the incomplete Netherworld, I guess I'll have to make this void a world."

That was when Guthorax became King of the Void. Over time while he was trapped in the void, he would notice that he and Themis's spiritual particles were losing æther and were being replaced with nether instead, which is how Guthorax was metamorphosing from an archnephalem into a dark archnephalem. Themis's spiritual particles that never formed back to herself (due to incomplete spiritual particles in addition to not being in Spirit World) eventually became nether spirits serving under Guthorax. However, he never realized that Adikia was also hiding among them as he thought Adikia was still only in Spirit World even when she comes here.
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Scene: Judgment Palace of Spirit World Kingdom (days later)


After the incident, King Yama cleaned up the rest of the mess Adikia made (that he thought Guthorax made) by banishing as many devils as he can as well as nephalic soldiers that were corrupted by Adikia into the void. After everything calmed down, King Yama of Spirit World Kingdom became the new Supreme God of Spirit World. Themis's remaining soul pieces that remained in Spirit World were being brought back together and she eventually revived in Spirit World Kingdom but many feathers of her light blue and light red angel wings missing since most of her soul was banished into the void. Is Themis Jr. really herself, though?

Inside the Judgment Palace, while Yama was doing his job as the God of Death to judge new souls, Themis enters the Judgment Palace, looking pale and exhausted, "Urgh! What happened?" Themis asked. King Yama said, "Themis. You're back. Your wings..." A few nephalic guards were surprised and happy, "Themis-sama!" Themis said, "I... I can't believe that happened. Why would Guthorax do such a thing? Although, Adikia seemed to have disappeared with him as I don't feel her." Is she lying or just confused? King Yama said, "First Lich disappears then... It was such a tragedy..." Themis approaches King Yama but is acting suspiciously. King Yama sees right through her lie and act, "... A tragedy, you caused, Adikia."

King Yama stands up and ensnares Themis into a magical stasis trap. The guards were confused, "What?" Themis's body morphed into Adikia and Yama said, "You can't fool me anymore, but I should have known. You were the cause for those conversions. The one who manipulates morality in the minds of sentient beings: Converting those demons and the military police into those... devils. As a matter of fact, I didn't even feel a slight of Dikē's presence inside you at all." King Yama creates a dimensional portal behind Adikia and said, "I now realized that Guthorax-sama tried stopping you and yet, you swapped places with Dikē at the last second and now she's in the void with him. You should have been the one to be banished to the void, not Guthorax-sama. And now I can't bring him back because of my idiocy." Adikia shouted in anger, "Darn you! Darn, you old man! You'll pay for this! You'll pay—" King Yama casted, "Soul Æther: Soul Release [魂霊気:魂の解放, Konreiki: Tamashī no Kaihō]!" Adikia's body was breaking up into spiritual particles [soul pieces] and was separating from her body. The portal pulled her soul into the void but before Adikia completely disappeared into the void, she separated some of her soul away from the rest to hide among the Spirit World and the living world. These pieces of her soul later turn into nether spirits in the cosmic space of the magical universe, which is theoretically made of nether and not just æther. Soul Æther: Soul Release is the same spell King Yama used in the future timeline when he extracted Zecross's soul during the misunderstanding.

At least King Yama wasn't too naïve about Adikia this time, unlike those other events that happened in both timelines. It's a good thing he already set a trap or he would have been killed and the archdevil Adikia would have taken over as the Supreme God. Adikia's return and end were quite anti-climatic, but it had to be done for the sake of Spirit World and the entire magical universe. With Adikia out of the way, it seemed the afterlife would become peaceful for many eons until the election of the new Paradise King when Prince Pluto betrays the archangels out of jealousy when his youngest brother Jupiter would be selected as King of Paradise. Then later after that, the greatest threat to Spirit World returns in the living world and that threat actually paid Yama back with vengeance.


List of Chapters (remake) on DeviantART

Volume 1: Demon Revolutionary War - The Revolution Begins
Volume 2: Demon Revolutionary War - Climax of Chaos
Volume 3: The Zulu Empire
Volume 4: Revolution from the Dead
Volume 5: The Fallen King - Reign of Chaos
Volume 6: The Fallen King - Battle of the Dead
Volume 7: The Fallen King - For the Nether

List of Chapters (original/obsolete) on DeviantART

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