The crown was placed on Alaric’s head, but as he sat on the throne, his skin turned to cold marble. He became a "King of Ash," a permanent conduit for the Abyss. Lilith stood behind him, the true power behind the throne, as the once-proud kingdom was renamed the .
: Using Lilith’s tactical genius, Alaric’s small band of rebels struck the capital’s supply lines.
: With every victory, Alaric noticed the world changing. The demons didn't just kill; they "claimed" the enemy, turning the high priest’s own paladins into hollowed thralls for the demon army.
Prince Alaric was never meant to lead. As the third son of a dying kingdom, he spent his days in the forbidden sections of the royal archives. When his brothers fell in a sudden coup led by a corrupt high priest, Alaric fled into the ancient catacombs beneath the capital, clutching a single, obsidian-bound tome.
Desperate and cornered by inquisitors, Alaric performed a ritual he barely understood. He didn't summon a celestial protector; he tore open a rift to the Abyss. From the smoke emerged Lilith, a High Succubus of the Senki—an elite caste of demon tacticians who thrive on the chaos of war. The War of Shadows
As Alaric stood over the defeated High Priest, he prepared to strike the final blow and reclaim his throne. However, Lilith whispered the true terms of the Senki pact. The war wasn't meant to save his kingdom; it was a harvest.
Lilith didn’t offer her services for free. She bound Alaric in a Soul-Link, a contract where his life force fueled her physical form, and in exchange, she granted him command over her legion of lesser succubi and shadow-wraiths.
: Alaric realized he was no longer a liberator. To maintain the summoning, he had to feed the Abyss with the "essence" of the battlefield. The Final Betrayal
