Family heirloom, then turned into a demon girl

Chapter 360 Mission: 07-4 Legend of the Demonic World
A moment later, the scarlet thorn bush crumbled to ash, and the massive, soulless body collapsed before Nero. The demon's remnant spirit flickered twice before the scythe's blade, then vanished completely.

Nero then turned around and his eyes met with Eve, who looked hesitant.

"You... are not a Nephilim," she said, "yet you carry his scent. Who are you?"

What is a Nephilim? This question flashed through Nero's mind. She knew the word, and its original meaning seemed to be a hybrid of an angel and a human. But wasn't Eve's child a hybrid of an angel and a demon?
In this world, this kind of child is called a Nephilim?
With doubts in her mind, Nero lifted her skirt and saluted.

"I am Nero," she said, "the granddaughter of Sparta—from another world."

Facing a dead person, Nero could say such words without any scruples. Of course, it could also be because Eve was the elder, and for Dante and Virgil, two guys who didn't look like elders, if Nero revealed his identity, it might be a bit too exciting.

"another world……"

Eve nodded doubtfully: "Thank you for saving me."

"You're welcome, Grandmother."

Nero walked over and helped Eve, who was still slumped on the ground, to her feet. She looked up at the dark blue, gloomy ceiling and asked the question that had been the purpose of her journey.

"I want to ask, what has the Mondes of this world been doing for these thousands of years?"

Thus, a story that began nine thousand years ago was slowly told through Eve's mouth.

The story begins in the eternal chaos. Since the birth of this world, light and darkness, angels and demons have been constantly fighting each other, from ancient times to thousands of years ago.

Nine thousand years ago, a demon of unparalleled power emerged, sweeping across the chaotic demon world and bringing it under his rule, becoming the demon world's first, only, most powerful, and cruelest emperor. That demon was Mondes.

However, even the most powerful emperor would always have his trusted advisors. At Mundus's side, his brother Sparta served as his adjutant and fought alongside him. With these two brothers working together, no one in the demon world could stand up to them. Mundus easily unified the demon world and even launched a counterattack against the heavens.

And he succeeded. Becoming the Emperor of the Demon Realm, Mendes became incredibly powerful. He destroyed the Heaven Realm, annihilated all the Nephilim, and nearly wiped out the angels.

Originally, no one could defeat Mundus, and his rule would continue until the end of time. However, an unexpected event occurred.

His brother Sparda created this accident himself. At the last moment of the war, Sparda fell in love with the angel Eve.

He abandoned the Demon Realm for her and disappeared from the war with Eve. But that alone wasn't the problem. The problem was that Sparta did something that Mondes would never allow.

He and Eve had children: twins, the offspring of an angel and a demon, the Nephilim.

"—Wait, I have a question."

Nero interjected a question into Eve's nearing conclusion: "I already know that the Nephilim are the offspring of an angel and a demon, but why does Mendes dislike the Nephilim so much?"

"Because according to ancient legends, only the Nephilim can kill the emperor of the demon world."

Eve's answer frightened Nero slightly, because it very likely meant that even if she regained all her strength, she would not be able to defeat Mendes. And—

"Is this why neither you nor Sparta can defeat him?" Nero asked quickly.

Eve shook her head slightly. "I don't know. Thousands of years have passed, and Mendes's power has become even stronger than it was back then. Sparta was no match for Mendes back then, and now it's even more so..."

She slammed on the brakes and looked up at Nero: "What's the situation outside now?" Eve's memory had stopped at the moment of her death.

"Sparta sealed the memories of the two children and disappeared. Dante and Vergil, while not all doing well, have grown up. As for Mendes... he seems to be gradually trying to control the human world. I don't know why he would do this, rather than just destroying the human world directly like the heaven you mentioned."

"……I know."

Eve's hair fell down, covering her face. "I know why he wants to rule the world. He wants more than just ruins... He also needs the faith of mankind."

Faith. This word immediately made Nero's heart skip a beat.

This made perfect sense. Having seen so much in the small garden, Nero now understood the immense power of faith. If Mondes truly accomplished his goal, Nero couldn't imagine the dire consequences.

And perhaps... that is the real condition for the "Demon King of Dystopia" to appear?

Nero didn't know, and he didn't dare to say it, but there was no doubt that Mendes had to be stopped.

Otherwise, it will not only be this world that will be in trouble, but the tentacles of this Mendes will definitely extend to other parallel universes.

A multiverse-level crisis. It's truly sensational.

"Then how can we defeat him?"

When Eve heard Nero's question, she looked embarrassed for a moment.

This clearly meant "I'm not sure either," and Nero's heart sank little by little.

"...If the legend is true, then perhaps there is hope of killing him."

In the end, Eve could only say these bland words: "Sparta was once his brother, so he might know Mondes's weaknesses, but..."

But he has disappeared, most likely because he was defeated by Mendes. He knows Mendes' weaknesses, but he is not Nephilim, so he cannot defeat him.

Can we only rely on Dante and Virgil?
Nero still felt the idea was unreliable. Her eyes fell on the staff in her hand, the angel weapon "Samael", and a half-baked idea came to her mind.

"Nephilim, is it possible that it was created artificially?" She raised her head and asked Eve.

"You're thinking?"

"I also have Spartan blood in my veins." Nero nodded firmly. "So if I absorb the power of an angel... can I also become a 'Nephilim'?"

However, the person who gave the answer was not Eve, but Samael.

"My Lord, you've already shown signs of this," Samael said with a chuckle. "Take a look at your 'Sin Stone'."

Nero looked down and saw that white lines had appeared on the originally pure black "Rage Stone".

That is the power of angels and of "virtue".

(End of this chapter)