Eldritch Creature's Guide-Chapter 193 Aftermath Of The 8th Floor Crisis
Not even several hours later, shocking news started circulating across the entirety of the Material Plane of the Cosmos, the NEX or the Neural Extradimensional Xenowork or even across some of the Transcendental Factions, because even some of the Transcendental Entities were right now paying to the developments on the Material Plane due to this event.
One of the strongest factions in the Cosmos, the one which would have stood on the same level as the Hall of Kadath, The Guild or Vaultbank if it was truly unified, the Demon Council was officially disbanded as a conflict between two of its major sub-factions, Star Demon Tribe and Moon Demon Tribe against the Golden-Horned Demon Tribe erupted into full out war.
Some who knew how to read the subtle waves of the Cosmopolitics knew that the Demon Council was a tickling bomb, a tickling bomb that some of the factions were igniting far sooner than it originally should.
Soon enough entire Cosmos and all major and even minor players on the Cosmos politics knew about the ambush of the Golden-Horned demon army by the forces of the Star Demon Tribe and Moon Demon Tribe, where they not only managed to massacre the entire mortal army under the Golden ones but also killed several tens of Legendaries of the Golden-Horned Tribe and their vassals.
Instantly afterward came the proclamation of the foundation of the Star-Moon Coalition that was founded by the Star Demon Tribe and Moon Demon Tribe, together with some of their vassals and closest allies, creating a new faction.
At the same time, not even an hour later, the Golden-Horned Demon Tribe sent out several of their Holies as they assimilated all of their vassals and even some of their allies into Atraksan Demon Empire as the Patriarch Angol crowned himself the first Imperial Emperor of the Atraksan.
Not only these two but apparently even some minor factions were being created right here and there out of some stronger members of the former Demon Council.
The former Demon Council encompassed practically every Demon Race, Tribe or any other faction that was consisting of demons. They were colossal hegemon that, technically speaking, was stronger than any of the 13 Gates by a wide margin as they had tremendous numbers.
Unfortunately, there didn't exist any sense of inner unity among the members of the Demon Council and calling them a faction would be a severe underestimation of its fundamental nature and a grave offense to true factions.
So, in a certain sense, it wasn't even that surprising that it would fall apart. Now, though it was disbanded, it created a huge political mess because countless new-old players were appearing on the political landscape of the Material Plane.
Several of the Demon Tribes were already fracturing because the loyalty of their members were either towards the Atraksan Empire or Star-Moon Coalition, one of such notable cases being the Shadow Demon Tribe, where was even conflict between the Valeforias Family that seemed to lean towards the Atraksan Demon Empire and several other Demon Families that leaned towards either Star-Moon Coalition or...
The newest player who revealed itself to the Material Plane after killing four Holies and fifty Legendaries of the Atraksan Demon Empire...
Hellsalem, under the leadership of Apollyon Abaddon, son of the Primordial Daemon Abaddon, who was living in the Demon Realm, unknown to anyone else. This was a shock to anyone who heard it because it was unheard of that somebody of such prominent lineage and power would be living in the Material Plane, in a place like a Demon Realm as a martial hermit, training and training... and then came the day of the reveal.
A Limit Holy Legendary who unified the entire Demon Realm under his rule and extended the offer for the Demon Races, Tribes and anyone who didn't want to be caught in the middle of a fight between the Atraksan Empire and Star-Moon Coalition.
With the establishment of the Hellsalem, basically, three factions grew on the ashes of the former Demon Council, while at least two of them were antagonistic toward each other. Naturally, for the Atraksan Demon Empire, the fact that they lost control or rather never assumed control over the Demon Realm was a great hit to their pride because the Demon Realm was the ancestral home of the demons.
Even before the Higher Dimensional World Abyss was created, it contained countless secrets even till this day and if someone Reset the World... then he would obtain a very powerful Principal World filled with countless resources. 𝑓𝔯𝑒e𝘸e𝘣𝓷𝘰ѵe𝚕.c૦𝙢
Naturally, the establishment of the Hellsalem attracted many of the demons, especially the older ones, the traditionalists and those of that mindset because it appeared like Apollyon Abaddon was attempting to revive the Demon Realm and bring it on the same level as other Principal Worlds...
If such a thing succeeded, then it would be a great boon for the Transcendental Daemon Faction in their war against their enemies, as they would obtain another powerful world capable of giving birth and holding Transcendents.
Even in the Tower, a brutal war on the 95th Floor of the Tower started because that was the Floor that was formerly under the control of the former Demon Council. Now with the disbandment of the Council, the Atraksan Empire and Star-Moon Coalition started waging war on each other for control of the 95th Floor of the Tower.
All Floors above the 89th Floor were special in a certain way and their condition were absolutely heavenly for practicing. Just being born on such a Floor was a great boon to the future path that the person would walk and reaching Bronze-Tier on the 90th Floor and higher was as easy as breathing... naturally it was not comparable to the Higher Dimensional World where people were born even at the Silver-Tier and reached Gold-Tier after a few years just by standing and doing nothing.
Presently the Top Floors were controlled by the following factions:
90th Floor was ruled by The Nexus, which was the 9th Gate of the 13 Gates, a faction consisting of Living A.I. that developed their own technological tree working on the Primordial Psionic Energy and had the highest level of technology; they were also one of the ones that absolutely abhorred Sorcerers, Arcanists, Wizards and practically any other Magic User.
91st Floor was ruled by the Nesser Dynasty, the 5th Gate of the 13 Gates. It would be already a few Epochs since the Nesser Dynasty took control of the 91st Floor of the Tower. 91st Floor was the territory of the elves on the Tower, though aside from the Nesser Dynasty, some other elven factions too had some bits of territories on the 91st Floor, mainly gifted by the Nesser Dynasty itself.
92nd Floor was ruled by the Pale Congregation, the 8th Gate of the 13 Gates. It was a faction created by the Bloodkins and ruled by the Pale Bloods of their Holy City, it was ruled by the Pale Blood, the purest and strongest of the Bloodkins; they were the central faction of the Vampires, Kindreds, Dead Apostles and Pale Bloods. Ironically though the Pale Congregation was very similar in the Demon Council in nature, because the Bloodkins were essentially ruled by their bloodlines, they had a low possibility of division
93rd Floor was ruled by the Calamity Church, ranked as the 11th Gate of the 13 Gates. Calamity Church was a religious organization that worshipped Evil Gods, though their primary target of worship and loyalty was the God of Calamity and his followers. They were one of the younger factions, not that old compared to the others of the 13 Gates.
94th Floor was ruled by the Asura Tribe, the 7th Gate of the 13 Gates. Asura Tribe were a very peculiar species because they were all direct blood descendants of the Blood Sea Ming He, who was an extremely mighty Transcendent of the Immortal Realm, which was a Higher Dimensional Realm for the Immortals.
95th Floor was ruled by the Magisterium, the 4th Gate of the 13 Gates. An alliance of the Magicians of various paths, where everyone did what they wanted essentially because they were pretty divided into countless sub-factions that either competed against each other or had some sort of enmity between each other.
96th Floor wasn't ruled by anyone, but as said, it was in a state of conflict between the Atraksan Demon Empire and Star-Moon Coalition. It was previously under the Demon Council; now, it was turned into a huge battlefield between the factions existing there.
97th Floor also wasn't ruled by anyone, but rather it was a battlefield between the Chromatic Dragons and Metal Dragons and their Cults for countless Epochs already after the previous owner of the 97th Floor, which was the Great Xia Dynasty fell to their interior schemes and decline. 97th Floor was very suitable for the dragons; thus both of the major dragon species, namely the Chromatic Dragons and Metal Dragons, claimed the Floor as their own... naturally, as they were too prideful, nobody would back down and thus they waged war at each other for the Floor, for hundreds of thousand years already.
98th Floor was ruled by the Hall of Kadath for several Eras already.
Naturally, factions like the Avalon Kingdom didn't have any Floor in the Tower, while Germinal Order was striving to control one of the Floors above the 80th Floor, and the Scientia Hierarchy was controlling the 82nd Floor of the Tower.
Scientia Hierarchy was one of the oldest factions in the Material Planes of the Cosmos; with the powerful backing of the Techno God, they essentially worshipped knowledge and technology and were more or like focused on the improvement of their technological level, not the territorial expansion.
The Underdark was controlling the 89th Floor of the Tower because it had a very suitable environment for various of the dark races to live there, something that the other Floor didn't provide for them and terraforming one of the Floors above 90th... would require an effort of several Transcendents and the Gods of the Dark Seldarine Pantheon are not most helpful of the bunch.
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"So, what do you say about the results?"
Two people were talking as they were standing on the familiar balcony of the Imperial Palace of the Nesser Dynasty.
"I would have never thought that it would work... brother."
Answered the Emperor of the Nesser Dynasty, Tynardanis Nesser Silvermoon, to another man who looked very similar to him, albeit a bit older. It was his elder brother, Tyrlion Nesser Silvermoon, who joined the Hall of Kadath and became one of its Cardinals.
"Indeed... it was a compilation of luck, coincidence and meticulous planning."
Stated Cardinal Tyrlion Nesser Silvermoon, because their plan was indeed splendidly carried out, ahead of schedule by several thousand years. Ironically enough, everything started with the assassination of one person by information leakage by the Holy Son and slowly but steadily it grew to such an extent.
