In front of Gavid were the doors leading to the ninety-first floor of Babel, the entrance into the Demon King’s personal palace. While it felt like these doors could never be opened unless it was by the Demon King’s will, Gavid felt no resistance when he tried pushing them open.0

Still, this would be his first time trying this.0

Gavid’s mind was full of varied thoughts as he pushed the doors wide open. For the past hundreds of years, Gavid had never once opened these doors of his own volition. He had always kept to his office on the ninetieth floor.0

Although it was rare, the Demon King of Incarceration did occasionally send messages to Gavid. These messages mostly addressed Helmuth’s political issues and never included any personal correspondence.1

The same also applied to Gavid. As the Archduke of Helmuth, he held jurisdiction over everything that happened within this great empire, served as the final adjudicator for all important decisions, and then sent the reports up to the Demon King of Incarceration.0

All of that was done without any face-to-face contact. Even for Gavid, as the Archduke and Blade of Incarceration, this would be his first time entering the royal palace without permission. No, in the first place, Gavid had never even knocked on the doors of the royal palace without a summons from the Demon King. The only times he had ever entered the royal palace were during events like the recent ceremony for the appointment of a new Staff of Incarceration.2

‘And even that was an exception among exceptions,’ Gavid thought to himself.0

That was the first time the royal palace had ever been opened to celebrate the appointment of a new Staff of Incarceration. In the first place, the focus of that atypical event hadn’t even been the appointment ceremony. The Demon King’s true purpose had been to gather up the top one hundred ranking demonfolk and proceed to weed out the undeserving.0

‘It was an amazing feeling.’ Gavid burst out laughing as he recalled those memories.0

Gavid could at least be certain of this much. After the war had ended, the Devildom became an empire, and the...0