Hearing Nero’s question, Benia explained proudly, “That’s because these demons feel the aura of a demon sovereign! They are welcoming a new ruler!”
Dante was silent. Of course, he knew who the new ruler Benia was referring to was. It was Demon Lord Osiris in front of him.
Even a king of demons like Urizen had been killed. Apart from Osiris, who else in the Demon World could be called a sovereign?
The original ruler of the Demon World, Mundus, had been sealed, so demon lords were the strongest demons that could be born in this Demon World. Although Roy was flying high in the sky on Rafaro’s back, the demons on the ground could feel his strength, so they naturally could not help but follow him.
While running, some demons fell behind, but then more demons joined. Hundreds of thousands or even nearly a million demons ran wildly on the ground, and a massive black wave of demons gradually formed. Looking at the spectacle of the boisterous demons below, even Dante and the others broke out in a cold sweat.
They could not imagine what kind of catastrophic consequences would happen if so many demons broke through the spatial barrier and went to the human world.
Now, Dante and the others could only pray that Demon Osiris really had no interest in the human world here, as he had said. Otherwise, the trouble would be massive. They would probably need their father, Sparda, to fight against him...
In fact, the reason why Dante and the others were following him was with this mindset. If Sparda was really still alive, then they could join forces with the old man to fight against Demon Osiris.
Just as the three of them were letting their imaginations run wild, they suddenly heard Roy ask Cerberus, “Cerberus, do you know where in the Demon World we’re heading?”
“Lord Osiris!” Upon hearing Roy’s question, Cerberus walked forward and crouched down in front of him. “The Demon World is enormous, and I don’t know the specific environment of each place. But I looked just now, and I feel that if we continue moving in this direction, we might be heading toward the Despair Prison!”
“Oh? Prison?” Roy asked. “What is this place?”
“The Despair Prison is actually just a name. It’s not a true prison! Under normal circumstances, demons rarely imprison enemies. They eat them directly...” Cerberus explained, “The reason it’s called this is that it’s the lair of the whip demons. These whip demons aren’t demon species from the Abyss but a mutated demon race of the Demon World. These whip demons have very violent, sadistic personalities. When they’re not hunting for food, they’re often torturing their prey, and they only eat them after torturing them to death. It’s precisely because of this personality of the whip demons that when His Majesty Mundus was in power, he would hand over some rebels to the whip demons for disposal. So over time, the lair of the whip demons was called a prison. The Despair Prison is known as the ‘prison of endless torture’...”
“Hmm, so it’s possible that Sparda is imprisoned here?” Roy pondered. “Isn’t it easy to find?”
“Your Lordship, perhaps not!” Cerberus said. “In fact, the Despair Prison is near Demon King City...”
“Yes!” Cerberus nodded. “Be careful. If you want to break through and save Sparda by force, you’ll very likely to alarm the demons in Demon King City. Although Sparda sealed His Majesty Mundus back then, the power of the seal has been weakening over the years. His Majesty Mundus broke out of the seal once, and it was also at that time that he launched a war of revenge against Sparda...”
Dante and the others listened carefully. What Cerberus said immediately evoked Dante’s and Virgil’s memories. If they were right, the time when Mundus broke through the seal to take revenge was just a few decades ago when their family fell apart. It was also at that time that their mother, Eva, died, and their father, Sparda, disappeared.
Perhaps Sparda was captured at that time...
“It’s a legion formed entirely of high-rank demons!” Cerberus said. “But this isn’t the most terrifying thing. The most terrifying thing is that trying to save Sparda will likely cause Mundus to awaken.”
“No, that’s not right!” Dante shook his head. “Mundus isn’t in Demon King City. Many years ago, Trish and I entered Mundus’s demon castle on Mallet Island. That time, we worked together to seal him again! (Devil May Cry 1 plot)”
“Hmph, do you really think you encountered His Majesty Mundus’s demon castle? Was it really His Majesty Mundus that you sealed?” Cerberus’s three heads snorted coldly. “Even your father paid a huge price when sealing His Majesty Mundus back then. What makes you think you can seal His Majesty’s main body again?”
“That should have been a clone or a projection, right?” Roy asked. “Although I also think that, if Mundus is really a demon king, it’s very strange that a demon lord like Sparda sealed him, like Cerberus said, he should be extremely powerful. You can’t defeat me with your current strength, let alone Mundus’s true body! So it’s very likely that you only encountered a clone of Mundus.”
“... Perhaps!” Dante was silent for a moment before nodding.
Roy turned around and asked Cerberus, “Since you’ve been in the Demon World for so long, have you ever seen Mundus himself?”
“No!” Cerberus shook her heads. “In fact, let alone me, not many in the entire Demon World have seen His Majesty Mundus’s true body. Sparda is one of them... In the legends of the Demon World, His Majesty Mundus suddenly appeared in the Demon World. It is said that he is a white demon who relied on extremely terrifying power to conquer the entire Demon World! But he rarely appeared in front of demons. He’s very mysterious!”
“White demon?” Roy looked at Benia in puzzlement. “Among demons, what race is white?”
“None!” Benia shook her head straightforwardly. “I’ve never heard of one. Even if it’s a mutation, demons have never had white skin. White is an ominous color for demons. Once such demons are born, they will be killed by other demons the moment they hatch!”
“Strange. The demons of the Demon World can tolerate Mundus ruling here?” Roy asked Cerberus.
Cerberus was a little dumbfounded when she heard this. “I-I don’t know. But the demons here feel that it’s normal for Mundus to rule...”
“There’s something wrong with this Mundus!” Roy said firmly. “Whether he’s a demon lord or a demon king, I’ve never heard of a ruler who doesn’t appear in front of demons but hides behind the scenes to control them...”
“Darling, what do you think the situation is?” Benia asked Roy.
“... It’s still hard to say right now!” Roy shook his head and asked Cerberus, “What I find most strange is, where are the angels of this world? Since there are so many demons, it doesn’t make sense for angels not to appear here, right?”
“Angels? It’s been a long time since I’ve heard this word...” Cerberus pondered, and then she turned her heads to look at Julia. “Actually, I’m not too sure what’s going on. Since I came to the Demon World from the Abyss three thousand years ago, I haven’t seen any angels. At that time, I was quite happy. Without the obstruction of angels, this is a true paradise for demons...”
Julia interrupted and asked, “Cerberus, before the connection here and the Abyss broke, Demon King Samael once descended here. Do you know about this?”
“His Majesty Samael?” Cerberus immediately felt deep veneration, but she shook her heads. “No, I don’t know. I’ve never felt such a powerful aura descend before. Perhaps it’s something even further in the past. You need to ask a demon who has stayed in the Demon World for a longer time than I have.”
Julia and Roy looked at each other.
Hadn’t Samael been here? How was that possible? Julia couldn’t have gotten all the memories of her birth wrong, right?
Julia remembered her age very clearly. She was more than two thousand years old. Even if there was a difference in the flow of time between the Darksiders world and the Devil May Cry world, this difference should not be too much. In other words, the time should be between two thousand to three thousand years.
She remembered that after Samael came to this world, he found that a demon king was already ruling here, so he left. Logically speaking, Samael’s appearance should have definitely attracted the attention of demons, but Cerberus said that she had never felt a demon king-level demon descend. Moreover, she said that angels were no longer in this world at that time... In that case, where did the angel soul that Samael used to create Julia come from?
Unless... unless Samael had hidden his aura? Then why did he hide? Had he met Mundus?
Roy felt that many things were in the fog, and he could not see them clearly at all. Even with Cerberus here, it seemed he could not solve them for the time being.
Perhaps only by seeing Sparda or Mundus would he know...
“Is Mundus still in the seal?” Roy asked Cerberus. “This is something we must confirm.”
“Yes!” Cerberus confirmed. “When Sparda fought His Majesty Mundus, I don’t know what method he used, but he managed to seal His Majesty. Although the power of the seal has weakened, it hasn’t truly disappeared. Otherwise, if His Majesty Mundus really escaped, the first thing he would have done would be to order the demon army to utterly destroy the human world!”
“Okay. As long as he’s still in the seal, there’s no need to be afraid of him!” Roy nodded. He was now confident.
While the few of them were talking, Rafaro was flying forward. At this moment, they could already see from afar that there was a fiery red rift valley on the black ground. And there was what Cerberus had called the Despair Prison, the lair of the whip demons!

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