Legends spoke of him as a force of nature, an unstoppable calamity that erased entire worlds.
But beneath the crown of jagged obsidian and the skeletal wings that dripped with endless darkness, a part of the boy still lingered, buried beneath hatred, yet never silenced.
For even as the Demon God rose to become the leader of the Void, a being of incomprehensible power, the words from that cursed letter echoed in his mind.
"You are a failure."
No matter how much destruction he wrought, no matter how many lives he claimed, the void inside him never faded.
The boy's grief had twisted into an endless hunger, a hunger to prove that he was not weak, that he was not powerless.
And so, the Demon God continued his path of annihilation, leaving nothing but ruin in his wake, a broken soul desperately seeking a vengeance that could never fill the emptiness that consumed him.
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Though he had ascended as a Demon God, he chose not to rule as a tyrant over the mortals.
