"It has been a long time, Emperor, or would you prefer if I call you by our real name?"
A brilliant light filled with holiness and warmth.
Pitch black darkness of evil and coldness. It both exist within him who is a traitor to the gods.
His body has been destroyed and his soul is sealed.
We are he and he is us. Looking at him carefully, he closely resembles the current Teivel but he is exhibiting a more profound and mysterious aura. Indeed, this person is the devil, a god, and myself.
"Should I even be called by that name?"
The wooden gate that is adorn by precious crystals has now been opened and there stood five people.
Each of them is sitting silently in the edges of a heptagram encircled by thousands of runes.
I assume this is a rune that will combine the soul fragments into one and would let the original us break free from the chains of gods.
"Well, if that's what you want."
I am an utter fool.
I thought that I am an entirely different being than Teivel and has simply managed to take control of one of his soul fragments but as I got absorbed by the white light my memories have returned.
Teivel is nothing but a fragment just like me.
Teivel and I quietly sat at the last two edges of the heptagram, as we sat the seven of us who were the fragments of the great being have experienced the greatest pain we would experience.
We no longer have bodies but our soul is being devoured bit by bit by the heptagram.
I looked at my hands that is now tearing apart, but instead of fear I am more delighted.
I will soon leave that dark place.
***
The chain that is binding me for I don't know how long has finally been destroyed.
It seems that the small fragments of my soul that has leaked outside finally done their job, I give me my praise.
I opened my eyes after so long, a group of people has been sighing in relief.
They are subordinates of one of my soul fragments and the former owner of the body I am using right now.
"Are you alright commander?! You have fainted for about half a day; we were very worried."
I flicked my finger on the forehead of the young lady in front of me as if it was the natural thing to do.
"It is a million years too early for you all to worry about me."
It seems that I have made some cute toys.
I closed my eyes and breathe deeply, it has been a long time since I get to breathe fresh air, even this desert felt like a haven.
My soul has yet to fully adapt in my new body so it might take a while for me to move normally.
I can barely move my mouth to talk.
"But with that said, I could not even move an inch.
I would appreciate it if miss Emma would give me a bridal carry but seeing that dissatisfied look,
I would not mind if you guys carry me instead."
With a faint glow in his eyes Arnold carried me like picking up a princess from her bed.
"You seem to be blushing. Carrying me like a bride; is only for miss Emma though,"
Smoke seems to be coming out from my cute subordinate's blushing ears.
It is a bit sad but I would have to leave them so soon.
***
A month after the battle between the son of Ellis family and the leader of the Emperor Cult, the world has been plunged into chaos.
It is by no means the doing of the 'Emperor' who everyone scorned but the young man who thought saved them.
The light from the sun has turned into scarlet light that burns the skin, the water in the oceans have become frozen, volcanoes continue to erupt all around the world, and gigantic monsters are roaming in the whole Earth.
Billions of humans died within a month, soon it will be called the greatest tragedy in the human history.
No one has ever seen Teivel Carmine Ellis nor the whole Ellis family since then.
Their face, their voice, the acts they did, have been gradually being forgotten, buried by the corpses.
The humans made a resistance by combining their power and secured a city where they could live safely.
It will soon be dubbed as 'Humanity's Last Fortress City: Alciel'.
But the above is nothing but a prologue for another story.
Above the sky is the heaven, it is where the god is said to live, and it is where the awakened devil has gone.
There is only one man he must kill and its head is now dripping bloods from his hand.
He threw the head to the ground, sat on the god's previous throne and sighed.
The god that made him suffer, sealed him for almost eternity, is now nothing but a weak old man.
He can't even use his strength as it used to be.
He must have used all his strength to seal the greatest devil of mankind and left unable to recover.
The angels that fought for him are also nothing but weaklings, the disappointment the devil feel soon turned into regret.
"I turned the whole world into chaos and this is what I got; I should have never left those kids."
It is the first time that he missed people, the toys he has in the realm of mankind is much more interesting for him than a dying old man but since the old god has died, the world will have no one to maintain its shape.
Only he who is a god can prevent its destruction.
Now he is watching over his former subordinates.
Skin as white as snow, eyes as scarlet as red, and hair darker than the night.
It is the characteristics of the devil and the god, he is formerly dubbed as Teivel Carmine Ellis but his true name is not as kind as that, his name is as bright as the black sun and sleeps under the red moon 'Alciel von Tepes' the traitor of gods.
"It is so boring."