Great King Faction

## Origin

### Origin

Formed to continue to maintain the political power of the pure-blood High-Class Devils

**Great King Faction**, also known as **Great Royal Faction**, is a political faction formed by the Bael Clan to increase their influence, as they empathized with Underworld politics based on traditional Devil aristocracy such as Devil blood purity and the continuation of the Devil noble society.

## **Summary**

In the aftermath of the Devil Civil War, the Anti-Satan Faction splintered into two factions as the aces of the faction became the new Four Great Satans while Zekram Bael and his Bael Clan were able to gain greater influence in the Underworld due to supporting the Underworld in the aftermath of the Original Four Great Satans deaths and the loss of influence among the original Satan clans after their defeat in the Devil Civil War. The Bael Clan created the Great King Faction in order to continue to increase the power of the Bael Clan and maintain the society of nobles that the pureblood High-class Devils created as the Great King Faction would engage in a political tug-of-war with the Four Great Satans and their supporters for the next several centuries.

After Ajuka Beelzebub created the Evil Pieces system and the Rating Games, the Great King Faction was able to obtain the rights for the Rating Games including the prototype King Pieces, which they gave to several pureblood Devils such as Roygun Belphegor and Bedeze Abaddon as they manipulated the Rating Game matches behind the scenes in order to further increase their influence and earn vast sums of money by betting on the prefixed matches.

Eventually, the rumors of the King Piece's existence were spread through the Underworld as a young Devil girl from the Belial Clan; Cleria Belial, discovered the existence of the King Piece through her investigations. Seeking to keep the information a secret, they exploited the fact that she started a romance with a Church Exorcist; Masaomi Yaegaki, to have her killed and blame her death on the fact that she had entered a forbidden romance with an enemy of the Devils.

In Volume 4, it is revealed that the upcoming match between the Gremory peerage and the Bael peerage would be treated as a proxy conflict between the Satan faction and the Great King Faction as the two factions quarreled over where the match should take place; with the Satan faction wishing for the match to take place in the Gremory or Satan territory while the Great King Faction wished for the match to take place in Bael territory. After the match, due to losing the match, Sairaorg Bael lost the support of the politicians of the Great King Faction.

In Volume 5, it is revealed that the Great King Faction was being questioned by the Satan factions as well as the Grigori and Heaven for forcing Sairaorg Bael to hide the fact that his Pawn; Regulus, was actually the avatar of the Longinus; **Regulus Nemea**, as due to the **Kuoh Treaty**, each of the factions needed to report the fact that they found the location of a Longinus. Later during the Demonic Beast Riot, the Great King Faction along with the King Piece were exposed by Sasutsuchi to the Vali Team, Azazel and the Gremory Peerage.

In Volume 6.5, the Great King Faction watched the match between the current Longinus users and Megumi Mitsuzuri.

Later in the Volume, the politicians of the Great King Faction were attacked by the resurrected Masaomi Yaegaki, who sought revenge against them for the death of his lover Cleria Belial, as he was able to kill several of them. The leader of the Great King Faction; Zekram Bael, visited the Gremory territory and told the cover story about Cleria's death by stating that her romance with Masaomi got her killed so that the Underworld and Church could protect the *status quo*. Zekram stated that he would entrust Team DxD with settling the matter as the Bael faction was being watched however Sasuke Uchiha threatens Zekram that he'll personally make sure that Zekram and Toji both dies gruesome deaths.

In Volume 10, the Great King faction gave their approval alongside the Satan factions in regard to promoting Genshirou Saji to High-class Devil.

In Volume it is revealed that Lord Belial left the Great King Faction after finding out their involvement in his niece's death and the role in the King Piece scandal which forced his son to ally with Qlippoth to expose and lead to his imprisonment, as Lord Belial attacked Zekram Bael by punching him in the face.

In Volume 11, Sora Ōtsutsuki **persuades** Zekram to make both Issei Hyoudou and Vali Lucifer official Super Devils, however Zekram and declines but Sora mentions cryptically that Sasuke will be killing the Great Kings to make that happen.

In Volume 13, Sasuke kills the members of the Great King faction and threatens Zekram telling him to acknowledge the Two Heavenly Dragons; Issei Hyoudou and Vali Lucifer as Super Devils. Zekram Bael publicly announces to promote the Two Heavenly Dragons; Issei Hyoudou and Vali Lucifer, to the newly created Special-class Devil rank.

## **Trivia**

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