✠Golden sands stretch all the way to the horizon, and here and there, towering rock cliffs rise like pillars supporting the sky. In the night sky, a bleeding full moon hangs like an abstract masterpiece over this desolate land.
This is the Demon Lord’s territory of Sanarak (沙奈落), ruled by Carpeios, second in rank in the Demon Realm.
Originally, deserts by themselves are regions that threaten the survival of living creatures.
However, the sea of sand in Sanarak goes even further, actively seeking to annihilate any life that enters.
That is because it voraciously devours living creatures with constant whirlpools reminiscent of antlion traps and parched tidal waves that never cease.
This territory, where even setting foot is dangerous, remained in its raw, untouched state for countless years.
Yet recently, a single structure has been rising at a swift pace.
It is a massive pyramid-shaped tower, built by stacking dark brown stone blocks.
As though recreating that sacrilegious building said in certain scriptures to have challenged the gods, it stands boldly in the desert.
The…