Demon Realm/Families

The most important thing for the demons was the inheritance of their family. The demons who were deprived of their family names were, in a sense, crueler than death.

## Families

*See also: Category:Family, Royal families*
Demon Realm used to have seven royal families. After battling, only three royal families of Lucifer, Mammon and Asmodeus were left. The rest either lay low or surrendered to the strong to preserve their bloodline.

Legend: \* denotes one of the former 7 royal families

Note that some families may be divided between multiple empires, such as the Leviathan Family: Delia Leviathan, Broc Leviathan, and Flandy Leviathan are divided between Shadow and Fallen Angel.

## Clan culture

Survival of the fittest was the tradition of the Demon Realm. It was also a reason that ensured a family to be passed down for generations.

In the Demon Realm, nothing was more important than that. It was the same for the royal families too. The biggest reason for Athena's father, General George to publicly support Shea was because Prince Obsidian couldn't completely understand the "Sword of Fallen Angel" yet. Thus, he couldn't eliminate the descendants of the Lord of Midnight Sun and let the Lucifer Family lose their last hope of inheriting the artifact. That prevented the Lucifer Family from embarking on the same path as other eliminated royal families. In other words, once the Prince Obsidian gained the recognition of the "Sword of Fallen Angel", General George could no longer protect Shea unless he was willing to be called as a traitor and take the risk of the extermination of his entire family.

## Seven Sins

*See also: Royal families*
Shea's title of "Proud Royal Family" made Chen Rui a little curious. *I remember Athena once mentioned that Demon Realm currently has three royal empires, namely the Fallen Angel Empire representing "Pride", the Bloody Empire representing "Greed" and the Dark Shadow Empire representing "Lust". Demon Realm had seven great empires during its heyday. In the past millions of years of natural selection, there are only three royal families left in the end. The other four royal families were either dependent on others or have disappeared. Pride, greed, lust... sounds quite familiar.*

Chen Rui knew that the Demon Realm originally had 7 monarchical kingdoms which had only 3 left now; they were also the rulers of the 3 empires.

1. "Pride" Royal Family surname: Lucifer.
2. "Greed" Royal Family surname: Mammon.
3. "Lust" Royal Family surname: Asmodeus.

However, there were other 4 royal families that either disappeared or seek refuge in the 3 empires:

1. "Sloth" Royal Family surname: Belphegor.
2. "Envy" Royal Family surname: Leviathan.
3. "Wrath" Royal Family surname: Samuel.
4. "Gluttony" Royal Family surname: Beelzebub.

Each of the 7 original families represented one of the 7 deadly sins.

The 7 royal families had great potential far beyond ordinary demons. Each of them had their own special bloodline power. Besides, they also had a war pressure against ordinary demons that could restrain the opponent's strength.

The royal families were the kings in the Demon Realm. Not only they had powerful bloodline power, they basically didn't have the potential limit of the ordinary demons. However, an example like Royal Princess Shea who was at least a Great Demon King level at her 20s, it was still considered quite rare. There might be some unknown mysterious from within.

Most of the royal families had a strange power of inheritance. For example, most of Shea's power was inherited from his father, the crowned prince, Grimm.

## References

1. ↑ Chapter 48 (Steambun)
2. ↑ Chapter 26
3. ↑ Chapter 44
4. ↑ Chapter 78
5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 Chapter 95
6. ↑ Chapter 105
7. ↑ Chapter 175