Chapter 1164 - The Endless Limbo (1/2)

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Mammon resulted to be one of the Seven Princes of Hell, the Supreme Noble Archdemon of Greed, who reigns over the Layer of Greed, and constructed a land of wealth and treasures named the Pandemonium of Greed, where he resides with a billion other demons as his servants.

According to the Imps his story is rather pitiful.

During his time in Heaven, he was depicted as forever looking downward at Heaven's golden pavement rather than God himself. In fact, Mammon's obsession with gold was to the point where he did not even care about Lucifer's rebellion but due to the fact that he cared more about material wealth than God he was cast out by the archangel Gabriel.

After the rebellion in Heaven, Mammon was banished to Hell where he is the one who finds underground precious metal that his demonic companions use to build their capital city, Pandemonium by Lucifer's order. Apparently, Mammon counsels the devils to be happy with what they have got, and to create a home for themselves in Hell.

Due to this, he's seen as a good figure by most of the demon population, who see him as someone content with what he got, as long as he's close to his treasure.

…I've arrived here yet I cannot sense my connection to the parasites I left on him, perhaps my idea ended wrongly, and he found them out and destroyed them in time, damn it.

Or maybe I cannot sense them? Well, only time will tell.

Mammon is credited as the creator of alchemy, specifically credited as the one who bestowed knowledge to humans on what the proper alchemical compounds are needed to create gold. Mammon's bestowal of such forbidden information also led to the creation of the homunculi, humanoid entities of great power and strength, which in turn makes him the indirect creator of such creatures.

The Demons pointed this out, but this looks more like just trivia to me, although knowing he might be the creator of Alchemy seems interesting. He might had indirectly created Alchemy Magic which was then spread across the Universe and discovered in several iterations, which he had done just because he wanted to find the alchemy compound to make gold, his most precious material.

His powers might really be amazing then, more than I could properly handle. Is he really just at Supreme God-Level, or even higher? I would say these powerful Archdemons are way higher, probably in some realm of themselves as they possess unique powers that cannot truly be calculated with ease…

Maybe there's something special they can do, or not, I would have to see what can be done. But for now I am really curious about how to get there.

”How can I get down there? Do you guys know of any shortcut to the Greed Layer?” I asked.

”A-A shortcut?!”

”Well…”

”There's a shortcut, but it's within the Lands of Emptiness where the Lost Ones reside…”

”They had built a massive Lost Kingdom where they devour sinful souls and govern the empty land of the Limbo.”

”I see… what's the shortcut like?” I wondered.

”Well, the shortcut is a massive portal that leads directly there, but its well-guarded by powerful Hell Beasts, beings at a power level similar to Archdemons…”

”The Lost Ones utilize this special portal that our lord of Greed made himself to communicate and transport goods from here. It appears that in the Lands of Emptiness there are special and precious Ores named Empty Cores, which our lord of Greed appreciates.”

”Due to that, the Land of Greed welcomes the Lost Ones, and only them… those that are not them and dare get through the portal…”

”Well, they get crushed and die.”

”Eh?! Just like that? There's no way around it?” I asked.