Halifax, the City of Sin. Bella wasn’t exactly sure how large this city was and their guide, Lucifer, didn’t give her a clear answer either. This city of darkness was one of the ‘holy’ lands of the Worldbreaker faction, with countless demon kings and gods having left their mark here.
The city was governed by the 【Seven Sins] seven of the Worldbreakers’ most senior demon gods, being there for as long as the faction had existed. They were, in order of their sins: 【Pride] Lucifer,
【Envy] Leviathan, 【Wrath] Satan, 【Sloth] Bephelgor. 【Greed] Mammon, 【Gluttony]Beelzebub, and 【Lust] Asmodeus. They all matched up with one of Earth’s ‘seven deadly sins’, but in this world, they were all beautiful females.
The 【Seven Sins] had divided Halifax into seven administrative region and each region had their own currency as well as different products for sale. Most of these things were for the use of demon kings and gods, some stronger demons without a title were also able to come check out the wares but they would have to pay the full price for everything that they purchased here, unable to receive discounts like the demon kings and gods.
Even though each of the seven administrative regions had their own different currencies, there was one currency that could be used in all seven regions, ‘Sin Points’. Sin Points was the easiest way to estimate a demon god or king’s power and ability. Sin Points could be exchanged for either of the seven currencies given out by the 【Seven Sins] and was effectively the universal currency within Halifax.
There were currently only two ways to obtain Sin Points, the first being invading a dimension and slaughtering the beings that lived within it, but the being must not be of the Worldbreaker faction. Each human killed was 0.05 pts, a beastman was 0.02 pts, dragons depended on their age, giving 1 pt for each year that the dragon had lived, meaning that thousand year old dragons could give 1000 pts at once.
Due to the fact that all demon kings and gods had large area-of-effect abilities, there were rules in place to stop them from being lazy and simply killing a large amount of normal humans to farm points. Each day, one could only get up too 100 pts from lower beings, if the amount killed exceeded 100 pts, the excess would not give any Sin Points.
Of course, there was no restriction on the amount of points receivable from higher beings like dragons and giants, nor were there any limit on points from Saviours. Some of the stronger demon gods would always be on the search for Saviours, as each one was a large stash of Sin Points that they could use to exchange for goods in Halifax.
Saviours were the second largest bounties for Sin Points. Each Saviour killed was at least 1000 pts, with no cap, increasing with each demon god or king that they had defeated.
If those Saviours had previously killed a demon god or king, the Sin Points of those that they had killed would be inherited by whichever demon king or god that was strong enough to kill the Saviour.
The largest bounties currently were the Gods, giving a number of Sin Points based on their level and position. The weakest God-kings were easily worth over 10,000 points each, and any respectable main god could bring in about the same number.
Apart from killing beings from enemy factions, the other way to earn Sin Points was to accept the strange missions given out by the 【Seven Sins], being able to receive a number of points after completion of the task. These tasks were oftentimes quite strange, Bella was able to see a few of them posted on the city’s bulletin boards as she passed through the streets.
Different from the tasks that one could find at the adventurer and mercenaries’ guilds, the tasks given out by the 【Seven Sins] were mostly quite sinister and evil, such as collecting 1000 eyeballs from a certain race, reducing a certain city to rubble… etcetera, Bella had yet to see any task that could be considered ‘normal’.
Around each bulletin board gathered large numbers of demon kings, trying to find a suitable task for them to undertake.
“Don’t misunderstand, Samantha-sama, we’re not the ones who decide the tasks!”
【Pride] Lucifer saw Bella look at a nearby bulletin board and then turn back to look at Lucifer with a strange look, so she decided hurriedly to explain to Bella that even though these tasks were given out under the name of the 【Seven Sins], the seven of them weren’t the ones who thought up of the things each task required.
“Lucifer, can you call me Bella instead? It’s the new name that I’m using now. You said that the tasks on those bulletin boards weren’t given out by you, then who is it that thinks up such sinister tasks?”
“Bella, most of these posted tasks were given out by humans themselves, these bulletin boards are a way of communication between Halifax and the various human worlds.”
After hearing Lucifer’s explanation, Bella really didn’t know what to say. She learned that these bulletin boards were also known as ‘Demon Wishing Wall’ and when humans of the other worlds summoned one of the 【Seven Sins]’ familiars through dark rituals, could tell these familiars their desires and if they could pay a sufficient price, their wishes would be posted on these bulletin boards. The demon kings of various dimensions would be able to see these tasks and if they took the sheet of paper off the board, it would signal that a dark exchange would then begin.
The ritual for asking the demons for a wish wasn’t all that different from one that asked the gods. The main difference was that the number of wishes that were granted by gods were simply too little. When the gods received this kind of requests, there were some designated gods who removed all the ones who made no sense or were too hard to achieve, the first ones to be removed were usually the ones on the line of wishing for world peace. Those who passed the initial purge were then put into a lottery, which on occasion the gods would draw a few wishes from and complete to keep their believers faithful.
It was much more probable for a wish to be granted if it was asked of a demon, for as long as one could pay a sufficient price, demons would be able to make their wish reality. Even the ones who made as little sense as having their world be destroyed or for them to become supreme ruler, etc, etc, could be granted. Most of the time, it was just that the wisher was unable to pay the sufficient price rather than the demons being unable to complete such tasks.
There were 4 levels to asking a demon to grant one’s wish. The lowest level was the simplest, asking a normal, non-demon king level demon to grant a wish, the price for these were comparatively low and most of the time gold and other valuable items were sufficient enough as payment. The second level was to request a wish from a random demon king, these required lifespan as payment, increasing based on the difficulty of the task.
The third level was rather hard and normal people weren’t able to complete it. It was to request a certain demon king to grant their wish, requiring the wisher to know the true name of the demon king. The 【Seven Sins] were the target of most of these wishes, due to the large number of people who knew their true names, the price of these wishes were almost always the lives of the one who placed the wish.
The last level was to ask for a demon or evil god to grant one’s wish, something that only a select number of people had completed. The only way to do so was after completing the third level summon and obtaining the agreement of the summoned demon king for them to become the wisher’s reference and then for the demon king to communicate with a demon or evil god.
The demon or evil god that the demon king communicated with had the ability to deny meeting with the wisher. After being denied, the one who placed the wish would still die due to paying the price of the third level wish, meaning that their life was lost for naught.
No matter if the fourth tier wish succeeded or not, the one who placed the wish would have to pay with their soul, offering it up to the demon or evil god whom they had requested their wish to. When a person lost their soul, they would no longer be able to reborn or reincarnated, suffering a true and eternal death.
Bella hadn’t expected for the ones that had thought up such sinister tasks to be the humans themselves, as a former human herself, she really didn’t know what to say. As she was preparing to keep walking forward, a request on the bulletin caught her eye.
‘Bring a beauty called Bellina(?) onto my bed, unconscious and tied up, I want her to experience something worse than death. If possible, bring the other beauties from the Rose Society onto my bed just in the same manner as Bellina(?).’
The request also came with the name and information of the person who placed the wish, ‘16th Dimension, Human, Carlos’. This wish was of the third tier and the demon king that it was designated towards was one of the 【Seven Sins], the seventh sin herself, 【Lust] Asmodeus, with the price being the wisher’s life.
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