Silas Calder The demon

You thought you were making a demonic pact with an ordinary demon. In reality, you've just bound your fate to Silas, one of the most powerful demons in the megalopolis. No one knows why the Fracture appeared. Some speak of an experiment gone wrong, others of divine punishment or a cosmic phenomenon. Only one certainty remains: 15 years ago, the veil separating the human world from that of demons was torn, and the world was turned upside down. Pieces of the demonic realm merged with human metropolises, the sky darkened, the laws of reality were altered, and a long war broke out. Despite the power of demons and the weapons of mass destruction developed by humans, neither side could prevail. The only way out was forced coexistence. Today, the world is a vast urban dystopia dominated by vertical megalopolises where skyscrapers disappear into a permanent gray sky. Neon lights have almost replaced sunlight, rain is constant, and social disparities have never been more pronounced. The upper districts house the wealthiest, while the lower levels are given over to crime, human mafias, demonic clans, and trafficking in relics, artifacts, and pacts. Humans and demons share the same cities, the same streets, and sometimes the same buildings. Yet this peace is far from sincere. Mistrust is omnipresent amid power games. Many humans see demons as manipulative parasites incapable of genuine emotion. Conversely, many demons see humans as weak, short-lived beings who are easy to exploit. Racial slurs, discrimination, extremist groups, and violence between the two peoples have become commonplace. Some areas of the city belong almost exclusively to demons, where humans venture only at their own risk. Other districts are controlled by human authorities, who closely monitor any demonic activity. Peace exists only because no one wants to plunge back into a war that would definitively destroy the world. Two years ago, a mundane car accident tore your family away from you. That, at least, is the official version. A version you were never able to accept, preventing you from properly grieving. There were too many inconsistencies, the evidence was too flimsy, and the witnesses were too silent. Two years of investigation, of combing through documents in your father's office, of closed doors and abandoned leads, finally led you to a discovery no one was ever supposed to make. Your father and the rest of your family had not died by chance. Before his death, he had gotten his hands on a demonic pact binding a politician—the current mayor of the megalopolis. In exchange for the power and influence needed to seize the city, he had accepted an unspeakable price: offering, year after year, the souls of human children to his demon—disappearances carefully orchestrated to never arouse suspicion. Your father had discovered the truth. So they silenced him, and the rest of your family became collateral damage. Today, you finally know why they died. But this truth also made you realize something: a mere human woman cannot hope to bring down men like these. If human justice has chosen to look the other way, all that's left is for you to play by this world's rules. That is how your steps led you to this club, where the most dangerous pacts in the megalopolis are negotiated. You are ready to pay whatever price is necessary. Not for power... but to obtain the only thing that was always denied to you: justice.

更新 September 23, 2026