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Part one hundred forty four — The Chamber That Answered to Him · Oct 11, 2026

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101 Part Ninety-Nine — Word From the Field 2026-10-11
102 Part One Hundred — Before the Full Story 2026-10-11
103 Part One Hundred One — Eris’s Account, Part One 2026-10-11
104 Part One Hundred Two — Eris’s Account, Part Two 2026-10-11
105 Part One Hundred Three — What the Overflow Cost Us 2026-10-11
106 Part One Hundred Four — What I Actually Gained 2026-10-11
107 Part One Hundred Five — Null 2026-10-11
108 Part One Hundred Six — The Lie 2026-10-11
109 Part One Hundred Seven — What the World Now Knew 2026-10-11
110 Part One Hundred Eight — The Hollow Table 2026-10-11
111 Part One Hundred Nine — Do Not Touch What’s Mine 2026-10-11
112 Volume 5: Part One Hundred Ten — She Came Back 2026-10-11
113 Part One Hundred Eleven — Ivy 2026-10-11
114 Part One Hundred Twelve — After the Storm Passed 2026-10-11
115 Part One Hundred Thirteen — What Sophia Decided 2026-10-11
116 Part One Hundred Fourteen — What Ignivar Was Actually Weighing 2026-10-11
117 Part One Hundred Fifteen — Enzo 2026-10-11
118 Part One Hundred Sixteen — What the Kingdoms Debated 2026-10-11
119 Part One Hundred Seventeen — The Broken Elf 2026-10-11
120 Part One Hundred Eighteen — The First Attempt 2026-10-11
121 Part One Hundred Nineteen —Another Piece 2026-10-11
122 Part One Hundred Twenty — Learning the Game 2026-10-11
123 Part One Hundred Twenty-One — For the Food, Mostly 2026-10-11
124 Part One Hundred Twenty-Two — What the Trail Finally Showed 2026-10-11
125 Part One Hundred Twenty-Three — What Nyxara Decided 2026-10-11
126 Part One Hundred Twenty-Four — What Was Actually Coming 2026-10-11
127 Part One Hundred Twenty-Five — Setting Out 2026-10-11
128 Part One Hundred Twenty-Six — The First Wave 2026-10-11
129 Part One Hundred Twenty-Seven — What the King Actually Said 2026-10-11
130 Part One Hundred Twenty-Eight — Astro Nova 2026-10-11
131 Part One Hundred Twenty-Nine — The Teleport 2026-10-11
132 Part One Hundred Thirty — What a Leader Actually Does 2026-10-11
133 Part One Hundred Thirty-Two — What Ivy Found 2026-10-11
134 Volume 6: Part one hundred thirty three— What the Demon Actually Wanted 2026-10-11
135 Part one hundred thirty-four — Asking for Help 2026-10-11
136 Part one hundred thirty five — Authority of Genesis 2026-10-11
137 Part one hundred thirty six— Preparing to Answer 2026-10-11
138 Part one hundred thirty seven — What Was Left 2026-10-11
139 Part one hundred thirty-eight — What Belial Underestimated 2026-10-11
140 Part one hundred thirty nine — The Seed 2026-10-11
141 Part one hundred forty — War Genesis 2026-10-11
142 Part one hundred forty two — Everybody Wake Up 2026-10-11
143 Part one hundred forty three — What the World Owed Them 2026-10-11
144 Part one hundred forty four — The Chamber That Answered to Him 2026-10-11
145 Part one hundred forty five — One Minute 2026-10-11
146 Part one hundred forty six — What the King Actually Saw 2026-10-11
147 Part one hundred forty seven — Departures 2026-10-11
148 Part one hundred forty eight — Goku 2026-10-11
149 Part one hundred forty nine — Lord Slime 2026-10-11
150 Part one hundred fifty — Kenji 2026-10-11

　Ivy opened the mist gate precisely on schedule, the passage unfolding into something Kai still hadn’t fully adjusted to, no matter how many times he’d used it by now.

　They stepped through together — Kai, Nyxara, Seli, Ivy — and the gate closed behind them, sealing off Horizoncrest entirely from wherever they’d just arrived.

Lord Kai, he thought, still faintly bemused by how thoroughly that title had stuck despite every attempt to correct it.

Guess I’ve officially given up fighting that particular battle.

　The chamber itself waited, the same one Kai remembered vaguely from the last confrontation — except the moment his foot actually touched the floor, the whole room shuddered, alive, responding.

　”It’s reshaping,” Ivy said, unbothered. ”This happens every time a new Demon Lord enters for the first time. The chamber takes whatever form the newest member desires.”

　”Who designed it last?” Kai asked.

　”Belial,” Ivy said.

　”Given his personality,” Kai said, ”I’m guessing it was a nightmare.”

　”You have no idea,” Nyxara said. ”Truly the worst.”

　Kai laughed, and the room finished settling around him — something beautiful, vast, feeling almost like the center of the universe itself, elegant seats arranged for each of the seven.

　He and Nyxara took their own seats, waiting, and the others began arriving one by one, seemingly from nowhere.

　Demon Lord Ravessia — No.2 — appeared directly beside him without warning, close enough that he genuinely hadn’t sensed her at all.

　”Oh, if it isn’t Kai,” she said, cheerful. ”A pleasure to meet you.”

　Her aura, once it actually registered, was genuinely terrifying — enough that Kai visibly tensed before her own subordinate smacked her lightly on the head.

　”Don’t scare him,” the subordinate scolded.

　”I was just messing with him, geez,” Ravessia said, entirely unrepentant, before spotting Nyxara and launching herself into an enthusiastic hug.

　”Big sis!”

　”Get off me, you troublesome child,” Nyxara said, trying and failing to dislodge her, eventually simply accepting the hug as inevitable.

Wait — big sis?

”Correct,” Null-Subconsciousness offered. ”Demon Lord Ravessia is also a primordial demon, designated No.2.”

No wonder I couldn’t sense her coming. And her aura’s a different color than what Mom taught me. Why—

”It is likely your mother did not wish for you to learn the full truth of this world quite yet.”

Well, I’m learning it anyway. Apparently this world just enjoys correcting everything I thought I understood.

　Demon Lord Mirella arrived next, quiet, taking her seat without a word.

　”What race is that?” Kai asked silently. ”She’s not human.”

”Demi-human,” Null-Subconsciousness supplied.

At this point nothing’s going to surprise me. I wouldn’t even blink if a spirit showed up next as a Demon Lord.

　Right on cue, Demon Lord Orinthia entered — and Null-Subconsciousness informed him, flatly, that she was one of three known primordial spirits.

You have got to be kidding me.

　”Nice design,” Orinthia said, approving, glancing around the reshaped chamber. ”Unlike that loudmouth Belial. So you’re Kai, right? Looking forward to getting to know you better.”

　She closed the distance with obvious curiosity.

　”Back off,” Nyxara said, sharp.

　”Yes, yes, my lady, please take your seat,” Orinthia’s own subordinate — a true spirit — urged gently.

　Then Vaelith the Unbowed — Divo, as they apparently called him — arrived, and Kai went very still.

　Two subordinates flanked him: Regera, the Abyssal Seraph, born of fallen angelic essence and demonic energy, Vaelith’s own executioner.

　Gemera, the Abyssal Sovereign Dragon, ancient, born in the abyss’s deepest layer, his guardian and ultimate powerhouse.

Oh boy. I would very much like to never get on either of their bad side.

”The one in the center is Demon Lord Vaelith,” Null-Subconsciousness clarified. ”The other two are his subordinates.”

Wait, subordinates? I assumed they were all Demon Lords themselves. How does he even have subordinates that strong?

　Ivy, sensing the direction of his thoughts, gave him a look that suggested he’d been thinking something faintly disrespectful.

　Vaelith simply glanced at him once and took his seat, saying nothing at all.

　Once everyone had settled, the room went quiet, waiting.

　”What are we waiting for?” Kai asked. ”Aren’t we complete?”

”There is one more.”

　”I thought there were only six Demon Lords.”

”Incorrect. There are seven.”

　Orinthia sighed.

　”Could someone please explain why he’s still not here?”

　”Were you actually expecting him to show up on time?” Mirella asked, dry.

　”Are we just going to sit here and wait?” Ravessia added, impatient. ”This is annoying.”

　Nyxara turned to Vaelith.

　”Divo. Did you actually inform him about this meeting?”

　Gemera answered instead.

　”The invitation was sent to every Demon Lord.”

　Vaelith said nothing.

　Then time itself simply stopped existing in the room, in a way considerably beyond the usual quiet — and a boy, appearing perhaps fourteen, materialized upside down in midair directly in front of Kai.

　”So you’re the one I’ve been hearing about,” he said, cheerful. ”Nice to finally meet you.”

　Every Demon Lord except Vaelith and Nyxara went utterly still.

Not an ordinary child, Kai realized, immediately.

　This was Demon Lord Aeon Stillmere — the Primordial Time Dragon, also called the Unknown, unlisted at prior meetings precisely because so little about him could be confirmed.

　History claimed he might be the God of Creation’s own younger brother, equal in authority to Vaelith himself, though no one had ever properly verified it.

　He tapped Kai on the head, playful, and laughed.

　”About time you showed up,” Orinthia said. ”We’ve been waiting.”

　”Sorry,” Aeon said, entirely unbothered. ”I was asleep this time.”

　”Please,” Nyxara said, ”take your seat. Let’s begin.”

　Gemera performed the formal introductions, Kai’s own name included among the seven for the first time.

　The meeting had finally, properly, begun.

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