Demons

**Demons or Devils** are a race of non-human beings that hold the capability to evolve and obtain the power equivalent of the Highest Gods or the most powerful Dragons. Currently due to the immense power they can obtain, a majority of the most powerful high class demons currently reside within the 98th Floor alongside the other Gods of the Tower.

## Characteristics

### Evolution

* **Demon Flowers:** As stated during the trial of the 23rd Floor of the Tower, the demon race itself during its absolute base form appear as **Demonic Flowers** growing out of demon tree's after absorbing enough nutrients, the flowers then grow into a Demonic Tree, where numerous flowers are sprouting from. As stated after absorbing enough nutrients from the land and air of the environment of the demonic land it is planted in, the tree's would then bear fruit and begin producing demonic/evil creatures.

Demon Flower TreesPurple Demon Flowers
* **Evil Spirits:** Another type of creature born from Demon Tree Flowers is Evil Spirits.
* **Demon Species:** Eventually after they mature and hatch from said tree's, they then become the base **Demon Species** that only possess basic sentience and survival instincts to eat, sleep and fight. Eventually as they continue to live, these Demon Species continue to eat and kill each other. Basic Low Level Demon Species do this and continue to eat each other in order to absorb and horde the demonic energies of their fellow demons in order to grow in power and sentience. With them slowly becoming more and more intelligent as they continue to survive and horde power within themselves in order to continue to evolve.

New Born Demons
* **Ceratopsian Dinosaur:** The process itself can take hundreds upon thousands of years, but eventually the last stage that a low level demon species can evolve to is the **Ceratopsian Dinosaur**, a gigantic dinosaur/dragon like creature said to make up hundreds upon thousands of Devils. The Ceratopsian Dinosaur itself was stated to be immensely powerful and possess at least Five demonic hearts within its body. The inside of a Ceratopsian Dinosaur's stomach was said to be its own **Imaginary World**, containing hundreds of demons/devils and other creatures inside it.

Ceratopsian DinosaurCeratopsian Dinosaurs & Low Rank Devils created by Brahm
* **Devil/Demon:** Eventually after gaining enough power and sentience, a Ceratopsian Dinosaur would then reach its final evolution. As shown during Yeon-woo artificial creation of a Demon, a Ceratopsian Dinosaur then evolves into becoming a full Low Level High Devil. Once evolved into this form, they then successfully obtain the intelligence level, emotional capacity and humanoid form of a human and continue to grow in power and possibly reach the same level of power as a God. As seen where Cha Yeon-woo was able to artificially create one using the New Powers given to him by Azrael to have the Demon Species from the Demon Forest to begin devouring each other until they eventually created one. With the newly Born Devil taking the Form of a human man with black wings and snow white skin and hair.

Evolved Humanoid DemonHumanoid DevilsNewborn Demon created by Cain
### Presence

#### Apostles

Similar to Gods, High Level Demons can also have worshipers, followers and **Apostles** that they can empower with their demonic energy in order to possess a presence in the lower floors of the tower. Due to them being equal to Gods, High Level Demons can also bequeath a "Power" unto their chosen Apostle that grants them extreme power within the Tower and similarly to the Apostles of Gods, when they're Apostle dies, their souls would instead be transported to the 98th Floor to the territory of their Demon Patron and become part of the Demon's household.

#### Deals

High Class Demons are also known to frequently make deals or agreements with several Rankers known as "Dark Magicians" in order to increase their powers. This is usually done when said Ranker either summons or gains the attention of a High Level Demon and are made an offer by them to increase this power. However unlike Gods who willingly give out power for nothing in return in order to spread their generosity and increase and deepen the faith that mortals have for them, High Level Demons would instead trick or manipulate said Rankers for something in order to increase their power for their own gain. With them usually making said Ranker barter their soul to consume to increase their power or eternal servitude to work under them for the rest of their lives or even make them barter their eternal service by making them trade away their souls to demonize as their servants once they die and have them join their households as servants.

* **Summoning:** The typical method used to get in touch with a High Level Demon is to summon them using a summoning circle, depending on what is used to power the circle, the quality of the magic circle and which type of demon can be invoked and which Demonic Society they would like to summon the demon from. Once Successfully summoned, the demon is compelled to listen to the wish and desire of the summoner and fulfil their request and another payment would possibly be needed to complete the transaction.

### Sheddings

Similar to Gods and other high level beings, High Level Demons are capable of creating a "shadow" of themselves and leave that shadow in any of the lower floors for specific purposes.

This is seen where Apophis was able to leave a shadow shedding of himself within the 26th Floor able to continuously create legions and legions of monster armies to challenge and lay siege to the "Wailing Wall" for centuries and serve as part of the trial of the 26th Floor.

### Relationship

#### Gods

Due to them possessing the capacity to evolve into beings with power equivalent to a God, the Demon race themselves possess a rivalry with the most powerful Gods and are shown to possess a level of mutual animosity between the two races. However due to them being tied in terms of power, many of them choose to avoid having direct confrontation with them.

#### Dragons

The Demon Species and the Dragon Race are stated to be natural enemies to each other due to their conflicting concepts to their creation. Where Demon only desire things and take everything that they fancy, Dragon desire to watch, learn and understand everything that catches their own interest. Leading to both species entering into a war of dominance that contributed to the Dragon Species Extinction.

However despite their conflict and intense hatred for each other, Dragons and Demons are strangely very compatible with each other. If a dragon where to successfully eat and devour a demon, they're knowledge and power would increase. While if a Demon where to successfully eat and devour a Dragon's heart, their own magic capacities and powers would also increase. Further intensifying their feud with each other.

#### Humans/Rankers

Due to the immense power High Level Demons possess, numerous Ranker within the Obelisk try to garner a powerful demon's attention in order to increase their own powers. With Demon's in particular being also capable of also creating their own **Apostles** by making "deals" with humans for more power.

However due to their inherent devious nature, Demon's would usually make these deals with some sort of loop hole or some other factor within the agreement or contract that they can later use against the Ranker who made a deal with them. Usually ending with them successfully stealing and devouring the recipients soul in order to increase said demon's own powers or somehow tricking said ranker into selling their eternal servitude to the Demon as their "Apostle", usually leading them to become demonized either before or after they die and become a part of said demon's household servant.

A few of the more powerful clans within the Tower are also known to exclusively known to make use of the power offered by Demons, With the Witches of Walpurgisnacht being infamous for excessively bargaining with them and the Top Clan, Devil Army being just as infamous for only accepting those who use demonic energies.

## Demonic Societies

Similar to the Gods in the 98th Floor, the High Level Demon's within the Floor have also banded together in large groups. Becoming compatible to the various Pantheon's in the 98th Floor.

### Le Infernal

One of the largest Demonic Societies within the Tower and one of the most powerful in the 98th Floor. The Hierarchy of the group itself follows the system of a medieval nobility system of King, Duke, Prince, Marquise, Earl, Knights and President as the lowest position.

Currently its been confirmed that Baal is the leader of the group and Agares Currently holds the position of a Grand Duke and one of the Four Pillars of the Society. Other members have yet to be revealed. However, Amon,Halphas and Dantalion have been confirmed to be members.

### Jie Sect

The Jie Sect is the Demonic Society based off of Chinese Myth and is another group of Demons that is counted as one of the 98th Floor's most powerful Demonic Societies. The Jie Sect itself is the rival and equivalent of the Godly Society, Chan Sect.

Its members are Galaganta, Confusion,Vimazildara, Buchi and Tao Wu.

### Niflheim

Niflheim is the Demonic Society based on Norse Mythology. It is equivalent and rival to the Godly Society, Asgard.

It is currently lead by Loki and its members are Jormungand, Hel ,Fenrir

### Egypt

As seen during the trial of the 26th Floor, there are also Egyptian Demons that similarly have a rivalry with the Gods of Egypt. With Apophis having been stated to be the rival of the Sun God, Ra.

## Trivia

* The Demons of "Le Infernal" seemingly takes their names and themes from the arcane spell book of "Solomon's Goetia" of the 72 Demons of Hell.
* Despite being identified as a Demon in the Novel, Jormungander, Hel and Fenrir are identified as either Monsters, Giants or even Gods in Norse Mythology due to their Father, Loki's heritage as a Giant and a honorary member of the Aesir Pantheon.