Editing Shinmai Maou no Keiyakusha:Volume 7 Chapter 4 (section)

===Part 6===
“Incredible…those are the flames of purgatory that melted the eternal tundra in the arctic long ago.”

The members of the Council who watched the broadcast of the battle between Basara and Leohart saw the enormous explosion occur within the fighting space and were no longer able to quell their excitement. Even though there were several layers of barriers between the inside and the outside of the fighting space, the shockwave from that explosion could still be felt from their observation room.

“It’s like the beginning of a new era. Today is a perfect turning point for the history of the Demon Realm, and this is a perfect ending to the past.”

When one of the members of the Council said that, the broadcast shifted to the area of the sky in the fighting space above the explosion. It showed the outline of ‘that thing’. —Recently, the Current Demon Lord faction had discovered a relic of the ancient Demon era in the western region. The humongous heroic spirit that attacked Wildart the other day had been excavated from there. Leohart and the others fully re-adjusted it, and after making a contract, it was given to Gardo to command. At the same time, the Council had privately carried out their own investigation and excavation. For the purpose of ‘monitoring’ the attack on Wildart City, Nebula was paired with the high-level heroic spirit that they had excavated. As for this decisive battle, the one that Luka used as the front-runner of the Current Demon Lord faction was an even higher-level heroic spirit than the one that Nebula used.

“No matter how a heroic spirit is used, it is still just a spirit…”

According to legends, these so-called heroic spirits were used in the ancient Demon era as spiritual weapons. Indeed — they were simply weapons. So, who was the person that controlled them? During the time of the Council’s predecessors, the [Council of the Seven Sins], they did not yet have full control over the entire Demon Realm. Belphegor accidentally made contact with a deep magic boundary, and was able to successfully summon a super high-level creature that was capable of summoning heroic spirits into this dimension. Belphegor controlled this creature, eliminated all rebel forces in one fell swoop, and became the master of the Demon Realm. Because the creature possessed such incredible power beyond all imagination, the later generations gave it another name that represented its absolute status. It was above a ‘Demon Lord’ — a ‘Demon God’.

“Chaos…oh, it has been thousands of years since I last saw that thing.”

One of the members of the Council passionately said. —It was the first time that the five members of the Council including Mardones had seen Chaos’ awake in all its grandeur. Of all of the people present, none of them were among the [Council of Seven Sins] at the time. These five people, as well as the already deceased Zolgear, or the six members not including Belphegor in other words, had all been chosen to become members of the Council after what was known as the ‘Great Demon God War’. In other words, six of the seven seats among the Seven Sins had become empty during the war, and Belphegor was the only one of them who remained. —The reason for that was the Demon God Chaos. In order to control the Demon God, vast amounts of magic and spiritual energy were required as sacrifices. However — Belphegor still managed to successfully control the Demon God at the time, and wiped out all of the rebel forces. This was possible by turning the other six members of the [Council of Seven Sins] aside from himself into sacrifices. Like chaos that engulfed everything — that was how the name of Chaos came to be. Later on, when Belphegor became unable to maintain control of Chaos by himself, Mardones and the other current Council members helped Belphegor to seal Chaos, putting it into a deep slumber so that it could never again awaken — finally, its name became something that could only be heard of in legends. Until — today that was.

“The Current Demon Lord Leohart is here, as well as the daughter of the former Demon Lord Wilbert, Naruse Mio…on top of that, there’s also Jin Toujou’s son, Toujou Basara…”

Moreover—

“There are also the representatives of the Current Demon Lord faction and the Moderates faction, as well as a full house of audience members…with so many offerings, it’ll certainly be enough for him to eat.”

Indeed, the Council became involved in this decisive battle and attracted such a large number of audience members for the purpose of playing this card. The Council was clearly aware that Leohart was after their lives — and he also knew that the Council planned to get rid of him during this battle. To this end, they prepared a secret strategy to crush Leohart’s ambitions. The fourth representative of the Current Demon Lord faction who originally would have fought against Zest…the Council had prepared Chaos for that; but the situation suddenly turned in their favour, so of course, they chose to alter their original plan to summon him. Hence, the third representative Admirath threatened Kurumi, causing a situation in which the next combatant, Zest, was forced to interfere, thus allowing their plan to succeed.

“Look…it’s already happening on that side.”

Everyone followed that person’s joyous words as they looked out, only to see the members of the audience who were dumbfounded by the explosion in the fighting space that Leohart and the others were in cry out in shock — it was because many large magic circles had appeared within the arena, and heroic spirits were emerging from them one after the other. In order to control Chaos, everyone in the arena had been made into sacrifices, aside from the Council and their subordinates such as Admirath. Chaos summoned its own heroic spirits in order to reap its sacrifices.

[———]

The heroic spirits with fierce light in their eyes looked at the audience members, and then charged towards them — it was the beginning of a frenzied massacre. Amidst the sudden tragedy which had set off a wave of screams and loud noises—.

“Like this, we’ll be able to get rid of all eyewitnesses to Leohart and clean everything up.”

Mardones said with satisfaction. All that was left was to wait for all this to pass, say a few words to turn Leohart’s death into a tragic story, proclaim Admirath as the new Demon Lord, and then all of their problems would be solved.

“What’s going on with Jin Toujou’s side?”

“No problem…look.”

Another broadcast was then displayed, showing the situation in Wildart City. A countless number of high-level heroic spirits which were even stronger than the ones from the previous attack were advancing towards the former Demon Capital. This was because the last time that Jin invaded Lundvall Castle, the Council analysed Jin’s spiritual waveform, and they also marked him as one of the sacrifices.

“Even if it’s Jin Toujou and the leftover forces of the Moderates faction, there’s no way for them to deal with this many high-level heroic spirits. Even if they are defeated by them, Chaos has long been the answer to that problem, and Chaos can simply deal with them directly.”

“What about Gardo?”

“There’s no need to worry, I’ve also marked him as a sacrifice for Chaos.”

Another broadcast showed the heroic spirits which were attacking Lundvall Castle.

“What a pity…that castle was rather extraordinary and I actually liked it.”

“It doesn’t matter. It’s just a castle, it can simply be rebuilt. This time, we’ll construct something even grander.”

“That’s true…”

When the two of them laughed—

“Speaking of which, Mardones-dono…where is Admirath?”

“Ah, it seems like there were a few people that he wanted to personally clean up.”

Just as Mardones smiled and replied, the white light that enveloped the fighting space rapidly faded, but it was not because the supply of air for combustion had run out.

“That is…”

In front of Mardones’ eyes, among the burnt out remnants of the ancient capital — three silhouettes stood upon the earth. One of them was in a stance where they held a large demonic sword. Seeing this, Mardones smiled as he said

“That elimination technique huh…interesting. With such heavily injured bodies, just how long can you and Leohart hold out against Chaos, I wonder?”