NOVEL NEXT 65 Meeting Begins
"It's unlike his majesty to delay like this."
The enchanting voice of Duchess Asmodeus, the holder of lust rang out in the quiet room.
At her words, the other beings present in the room nodded in assent. The table in the room was circular-shaped with thirteen chairs around it.
There was a slight gap that ran across the diameter of the circle, dividing it into two halves.
On one half, sat the six dukes;
The holder of fury, Araman.
The Holder of gluttony, Tilkan.
The holder of lust, Asmodeus.
Duke Hollis,
Duchess Celiosa and lastly Duchess Jostron.
On the other half of the table, the seats for the grand dukes and the royal family were kept, with Grand Duke Conrad Eryrth, the holder of pride present.
Duchess Asmodeus looked towards Conrad and asked.
"Mind telling us the real reason the meeting was delayed for 5 days?"
"I have no idea either".
Conrad however, shrugged his shoulders while replying.
The meeting that was called was originally supposed to be held three days after the incident occurred.
However, much to the shock of the dukes, Diablo postponed the meeting for 5 days, saying he was personally overseeing the rounding up of all the members of the House of Pearce who were involved in the monsterization incident.
The Dukes, on the other hand, did not believe this to be the real reason he delayed the meeting, however, even the one known to be the closest to Diablo, Eryrth, did not know why Diablo delayed the meeting.
Ever since Diablo postponed the meeting, the quantity and quality of information about the incident that had spread had reduced drastically.
The entire academy had been silent, no one entered or left and those who were outside did not know what was happening inside.
The Dukes deduced that this was courtesy of Diablo himself taking action, he seemed to not want something that was currently happening in the academy to spread out, at least not yet.
All communication with the outside, even to the stations on the moons of the planet Kreiz were all cut off.
Even Eryrth could not find out what was happening there.
The entire planet was under close watch by Diablo's personal knight troop. They kept a close eye on the planet and prevented all sorts of entrances.
Teleportation was also not possible due to the barrier diablo put around it.
As the dukes were talking amongst themselves, two more figures walked into the room, one of which was the Holder of Greed, Grand Duke Mammon.
Behind him was Crown Prince Creusery.
Mammon was a slightly pudgy man with black hair and brown eyes, when it came to military affairs within the Devildom, he was effectively the commander-in-chief.
Creusery had his mother's red hair with few silver streaks within, he had red eyes to match it.
As the Dukes stood up to greet Creusery, another person entered, one that should definitely not be in hell at the moment.
It was none other than Grand Duchess Inglis who was supposed to be conducting diplomatic operations in nearby demon-ruled universes.
"Hey everyone!"
She gave a light-hearted greeting and took a seat. However, the greetings she received in response were not light-hearted.
Although Inglis still retained her title of 'Grand Duchess', she was Diablo's wife. On a normal basis, like Aurora, she should have the title of Queen.
As such, of all the Grand Dukes, she was the highest-ranked one.
She only retained her title of Grand Duchess as the duties of the one holding the title of Queen were too cumbersome for her and she felt it would encroach on her time for research.
Such an absurd reason that many believed was not enough for her to shirk her duties as the queen but surprisingly Diablo agreed.
The marriage between Diablo and Inglis was purely political as such there were no feelings of love between them, However, both of them respected one another.
They respected themselves and each other's opinions, this was one of the reasons for their good relationship that had lasted more than ten thousand years.
A few minutes after Inglis took a seat, Diablo finally arrived, with Belphegor trailing behind.
His silver hair fluttered lightly despite there being no breeze as he walked into the room slowly.
With the exception of Creusery and Inglis, the others in the room also rose to give their greetings.
Waving them off slightly, Diablo took his seat and ran his hand through his dull silver hair. Creusery looked around a bit before asking.
"Leya isn't back yet?" "No."
Diablo gave a short reply to his question, Inglis then spoke to Creusery.
"It's 'Leya' this time, what's it gonna be next time?"
"Dunno, whatever I feel like at the time."
Creusery had the habit of calling Cattleya all sorts of pet names, Inglis could not even remember the last time Creusery had called her by her full name. It had been that long.
"Is the situation in Chrysa really that bad?"
Creusery asked Diablo while thinking about the universe of demons that Cattleya was said to have gone to.
"Yes, the Angels must have received outside help. In her last report, she said they had a 'Book of Truth'."
Hearing his words, the expressions on the faces of all the devils in the room darkened. Even Inglis, who was all smiles, was frowning deeply.
"Pull her out of there, immediately. I don't want my daughter within the vicinity of such a dangerous artifact."
Inglis' cold voice rang out, the Dukes were shocked at this. Even if he was her husband, he was still the king of the entire hell universe, yet Inglis did not seem to care about such at the moment.
"If you won't call her back, I'd do it myself."
She then stood up and was about to leave, however, Diablo's next words stopped her.
"Calm yourself, I have already given the order for all of hell's forces to be removed from Chrysa. Cattleya is my daughter too, she is also one of the main entities of our universe.
One that governs the very fickle aspect of destruction, I can't let her stay too long In such a place."
Inglis, upon hearing this, signed in relief and took a seat. From her reaction now, one could tell how dangerous this thing called 'Book of Truth' was. The 'Book of Truth' was a tool used by the Angel race, it could only be used by them.
It was a book that recorded the true names of the most powerful names of enemies the angel race has had since they first appeared.
Most of the names there were the names of Masters of Universes, Deities and some Demigods too. They were of races considered enemies with the angel race, fallen Angels, devils, demons, fallen celestials and many more.
It was a very mystical book, after a name was recorded in it, as long as that person fought against any angel in the future weak or strong, their true name would be gradually perceived by the book.
After the entire true name of that person was recorded in the book, no matter what universe they went to, as far as it was not their home universe, the Angels there could use the true name recorded in the book to expel them from that universe and even directly obliterate them, provided the Angel's in that universe have a significant influence in it and possess a book truth.
The true name of any being was the closest thing to their soul, touching their true name meant touching their soul. This was why most beings carefully protected their true names from being fully known. At most, their parents would know their true name, as they are usually the ones to give it. However, this was only while they were a lower existence.
In other words, when a being reached the demigod realm, their true name changes and the new true name is known by that being alone and no one else.
The book of truth possessed by the Angels of Chrysa was nothing more than a projection of the original. This was the same as most of the other universes under the control of the angel race. Even if this projection is destroyed, it would not be long before it can be projected again.
The book was an artifact that most enemies of the angel race, especially the demon race, wanted to destroy, however in order to truly destroy the various books of truth in the universe of the Angels, the original had to be destroyed.
The problem was its location.
It was in the hands of the most powerful member of the angel race in all of existence.
The Progenitor Angel.
Even among progenitors, the progenitor angel was rumoured to be one of the more powerful ones. He created the book of truth as a means to help both his fellow Angels and the members of the demon slayer race when he waged war against the progenitor demon, billions of years ago.
Its aim was to record the true name of the Progenitor Demon and eventually use that name to kill him, however, the Progenitor Demon seemed to have a means of resisting his true name from being perceived.
So with the help of the progenitor of the demon slayer race, it was modified to work against not only demons but also all enemies of the angel race as a whole.
If a name was written on a copy of the book of truth, it could only be used in the universe it was written in and loses its effects if taken to another.
This was one of the restrictions the book had.