A young man named Jason Hiro is depressed and feels as if his life is aimless, thus he volunteers to enter a cryogenics program so his body will at least be useful for science. He wakes up 100,000 years in the future, only to discover that humanity has gone nearly extinct, the humans who remain are all slaves, and the slave masters are the Demons. Humans are nothing more than chattel for their new overlords.
Demons now rule the galaxy, but Jason discovers he has a unique power called Wordsmithing, a magic which descends from the legends of King Arthur and Solomon, one that can rewrite the fabric of reality based on his imagination and cast by speaking a single Word of Power. Will Jason be able to uplift and save humanity? Or will the forces of evil prove too powerful to overcome?
Bael, Dorma, Viola, Guura, and Melody leave the Hidden Emperor meeting without any fanfare. Now that the Duke of Pain lacks an indestructible body and magical talents, he won’t be of any help during Ose’s next invasion. Similarly, the Hell of Isolation’s members never tend to involve themselves with the militaristic aspects of upper demon…
Hell Harbor, inside the broken and shattered remains of where the Hidden Emperors first met. Ose stands at the head of the meeting table, her eyes glowering with annoyance at the fact that that all of the seats have been destroyed and the table itself is in shambles. Along the edges of the table stand…
Jason teleports himself and Belial back to the edge of the Fortress of Retribution, just inside its crystalline walls, but away from the populated areas. He observes the inside of the Hatoraxia for a few moments using his Wordsmithing and listens to the conversation between Kordonis and Miikil while his mind-wife works in secret. "Alright,"…
The VLL Hatoraxia hovers in the void, roughly a hundred miles above Tarus II’s surface. Its stealth modules camouflage it from view, making the primitive species on the planet below unable to see Captain Kordonis’s vessel. Sangin Kordonis, the newly promoted Ambassador for Founder-Human Relations, stands at attention on his ship’s Bridge, observing several readouts…
After attacking his precious ‘Birdy,’ Gressil departs her room, arriving outside the building and shrouding himself in illusions. He turns his body invisible, then shoots a glance at the approaching Wordsmith, not far in the distance. "Haha. What fun it is to sow chaos among the righteous." Gressil closes his eyes. He inhales deeply, and…
Dozens of troopers rush to Cassiel’s residence. They swarm around the exterior and sweep the perimeter, but nobody finds any indication of the Emperor of Chaos’s presence. As if having stepped through time and space, he vanishes, never appearing on anyone’s sensors. Phoebe holds Cassiel in her arms while the angel quietly shakes and trembles,…
Jason, Phoebe, and Belial all trudge out of Hope’s makeshift hospital room, past his guards, and arrive just outside his temporary hospice residence. After closing the door behind them, they walk a short distance away, toward a nearby building, before stopping and heavily leaning against its walls. "Well." Belial says. "That could have gone… better."…
After meeting with the other heads of humanity’s united militaries, Jason, Phoebe, and Belial leave their makeshift command structure, a simple square building lacking all frills, to head over to the hospice division. They pass the giant pit left behind by Beelzebub’s detonation and pause to look at it as many often do. The crater’s…
Tarus II, inside the crystalline walls of the Fortress of Retribution. Humanity continues to slowly but surely rebuild after the events of Ose’s Stormbringer Attack. Of the original three million humans and the significantly smaller monster and demon populace who existed before the demons attacked, fewer than a third of the population remains alive. Among…
Half a day after the Grand Assembly. Founder Unarin silently strides into his core offices, the key floors of the Founder’s Thumb, one of the five towers comprising the Founder’s Fingers. Not far from the topmost levels, his core offices rest on the 341st through 350th floors. The number of personnel inside this highly restrictive…
