The maid squad is too strong, what use is there for me, the Demon King?

Ascending to the divine throne and wielding most of the power over the main plane, one possesses supreme power and vision. However, what comes with this supreme power is not only unparalleled power, but also a heavy responsibility—to maintain the stability and survival of the main plane.

This is not only to protect His "property," but also to maintain the foundation of His own existence (the Heavenly Realm is closely connected with the Lord's Plane).

Through years of observation of the Lord's plane, He clearly identified two of the most important factors that could threaten the stability of the plane.

The primary threat is the demon race.

With divine insight, He saw through the potential and patterns contained in the demon bloodline—this race was almost destined to gather the collective fortune of the entire race at a certain time and give birth to a "Demon King" with extraordinary strength, capable of sweeping away everything!

Perhaps one demon king has no ambition to dominate, but who can guarantee that the next one, or the one after that, won't?

If an ambitious and powerful Demon King emerges, and other races are unlikely to be fortunate enough to produce a "Hero of Light" who can restrain the Demon King as He did in the past, then the absolute rule of the Demon race will inevitably reappear, and the ecology and balance of the entire plane will be completely broken.

To resolve this potential, cyclical crisis, He drew upon His own experience and chose to intervene—"creating heroes."

That is, when the birth or imminent birth of the Demon King is perceived, through the faith channel in the main plane (the Church of Holy Light), a bearer is designated (usually a human, because of the high affinity for the light attribute, and also because He was once human), and he is given powerful light power and mission, and "manufactured" into a "hero" who is able to fight against the Demon King.

However, after becoming the master of the plane, His understanding of the rules of the world became even more profound.

He realized a key principle: the stability of a plane is closely related to the diversity of life on it, especially the survival of powerful races.

Simply put, it means maintaining biodiversity.

Every time a race is completely wiped out, especially those with a long history, large numbers, and deep connections to the origin of the plane, it causes an irreversible "trauma" to the plane's structure, weakening the world's stability.

Among them, humans and demons, as the two major and powerful races in the main plane, are like two important pillars supporting the world.

The complete annihilation of any race would have a catastrophic, or even devastating, impact on the stability of the plane.

Moreover, deep within His divinity, there was a premonition: when the stability and "health" of a plane are damaged to a certain critical point due to war, genocide, or other reasons, something extremely terrifying and beyond current understanding may emerge from the world's wounds and resentment.

He couldn't clearly perceive what it was, but the palpitations and sense of threat brought by the premonition were incredibly real and intense.

Therefore, His duties become complex and contradictory:

1. It is imperative to prevent the Demon race from becoming too powerful and threatening the survival of other races. (Through the Hero Mechanism)

2. The complete extermination of the demon race must be prevented. (Maintaining dimensional stability and avoiding the emergence of unknown terrors)

3. We must also prevent the mass extinction of other major races (especially humans).

Under these constraints, a seemingly cruel yet "perfect" solution that met all the requirements gradually took shape in His mind—

To create a controlled, periodic, and evenly matched... war between humans and demons!

The Demon King and the Hero are kept in check, and the two races are worn down in war, but the war ends abruptly when they are on the verge of extinction (when the Demon King or the Hero falls), giving them a chance to recuperate and wait for the start of the next cycle.

In this way, the complete domination or extinction of any one race was avoided, maintaining the stability of the plane. At the same time, the periodic "pruning" prevented the excessive expansion of any race and also avoided the risk of the birth of that unknown terror.

This system was already perfect, but it was later inspired by the legacy of the "Sage" Demon King and automated it.

Thus, the seemingly fated cycle of humans and demons that had shrouded the main plane for millennia was ruthlessly initiated by Him, the plane's master, based on precise calculations of "stability maintenance" and "self-preservation."

He transformed from a liberator into a behind-the-scenes manipulator of destiny, viewing all living beings as pawns in maintaining the stability of the world (and Himself).

This seemingly perfect "automated" system is facing its greatest challenge and is about to completely collapse due to the variable of Gray from another world and the legacy of the "sage".

After ascending to godhood, the second major factor that He perceived as threatening the stability of the prime ministerial plane was "demons".

Unlike demons, who possess physical forms and originate from living races, the essence of demons is more bizarre and abstract.

He clearly recognized that the root of these terrifying existences did not come from the outside world, but from the endless negative emotions that arose in the hearts of countless beings in the Lord's plane.

These energies, imbued with powerful obsession and malice, can, under certain conditions, condense into terrifying entities with independent consciousness—the Seven Demons—that live by spreading corresponding negative emotions and drawing power from them.

Feuerbal, the demon of flames and destruction (born from destructive desires and rage).

Avaris, the demon of greed and avarice (born from endless greed and possessiveness).

Darkness and Shadows: The Demon of Darkness (Born from Fear, Betrayal, and Hidden Malice)

Rast, the demon of lust and pleasure (born from unrestrained desires and twisted cravings).

Domri, the demon of lust and domination (driven by an endless ambition for power and control).

Tataq, the demon of war and strife (born from the instincts of fighting, hatred, and bloodlust).

The Devil of Knowledge and Truth: Thutl (originating from a relentless pursuit of forbidden knowledge)

With His divine power, it would not be difficult for Him to completely destroy these demons that had already taken shape.

But the key point is that negative emotions themselves can never be eradicated.

As long as living beings possess emotions, evil thoughts will be like weeds, impossible to eradicate and always springing back to life.

Today we may destroy Feuerbal, but tomorrow a new "Destroyer of Incineration" may be born from the raging flames.

This is a futile effort that only treats the symptoms, not the root cause, and wastes a lot of energy.

After careful consideration, He chose a more "management-oriented" strategy—imprisonment.

Using his supreme divine power, He created a special prison—the Netherworld Prison—with an extremely harsh environment and incredibly strict rules, in the gap between the main plane and the Celestial Realm.

Subsequently, He personally captured and sealed these seven fundamental demons one by one.

However, the instinct of demons is to absorb negative emotions to strengthen themselves.

Even when imprisoned, their twisted will can still penetrate the barriers of space, like bait being thrown out, subtly sensing and actively attracting negative emotions from the main plane that share the same origin.

Although most of the malevolent energy that converges across space is blocked and worn away by the seal of the prison, a tiny fraction is still painstakingly absorbed by the demons to maintain their existence and even to accumulate power at an extremely slow pace.

He was aware of this, but instead of strengthening the blockade, He tacitly approved this level of "infiltration".

Because He realized that this had created an unexpected "safety valve"—most of the negative emotions generated in the prime plane were actively absorbed by these seven ready-made, imprisoned "containers".

This greatly reduces the risk of new, uncontrollable, and unknown demons being born in random locations in the main plane due to excessive accumulation of negative emotions!

Confining the demons and letting them "absorb dust" actually maintained the overall stability of the main plane.

Of course, He did not completely abandon the situation.

To prevent the demons from accumulating power slowly to the point where they might break the seal, He established a rule of periodic "cleansing"—that is, every long period of time, when He senses that the demons' accumulated power has reached a certain threshold, He will impose divine punishment or send angels into the Netherworld to suppress the demons and weaken their power back to a safe level.

In order to gain power more quickly, or even find a chance to escape, the demons will also use their weak infiltration ability to bewitch the weak-willed beings in the main plane and establish organizations that worship them and collect negative emotions and sacrifices for them.

This is the origin of the Demonic Order.

The Goddess of Light also maintained a subtle tacit approval of the existence of these religious orders.

In her view, these cults were like flies buzzing around seven fixed sewage outlets. While repulsive and potentially causing localized chaos and tragedy, their overall existence actually helped to concentrate the potentially scattered dangerous "filth" within a manageable range. As long as they were cleaned up periodically (suppressing the demons themselves and incidentally purging the overly rampant cults), they couldn't cause any major trouble.

Thus, a cruel system based on "imprisonment-absorption-periodic cleanup" was established to manage the "negative emotional pollution" of the plane.

The Netherworld Prison became an isolation zone for imprisoning "pathogens," while the Demonic Order unexpectedly became a consumable tool to help "collect viruses."