Palace of Darkness

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Demon Arena

The **Palace of Darkness** (**闇の宮殿)**, located in the most north part of Yomihara, is the base of operations of Nomad in Japan and one of Edwin Black's personal hideouts. It is one of the main areas of Taimanin Asagi 3.

## Areas and main rooms

It houses the **Demon Arena** that, similar to the Chaos Arena, serves the function of entertaining for citizens of the demonic/criminal underworld. Letting women and supernatural creatures fight to the death or for erotic punishment. The base also has Hell technology medical rooms, sleeping areas and even an altar.

It's built into the bedrock and seems to be almost like a temple/fortress.

The Palace also connects to the pathway toward the Demon Gate, which is guarded by Ruri.

## History

The Palace of Darkness is used as the main base of Edwin Black and his highest members like Ingrid, Fürst and Oboro. As mentioned in Taimanin Yukikaze, Nomad is very active in Yomihara as the rulers of the underground city, while also having control over the Demon Gate there. It should be noted that the location is not publicly known as an "official" base of Nomad.

Most of the Chaos Arena fighters, such as Masked Woman, Power Lady and Snake Lady, have moved to the Demon Arena after the events of TA1.

In Taimanin Asagi 3, when Igawa Asagi was forced into hiding thanks to the machinations of prime minister Asai Koujirou and Nomad, she was knocked out by Edwin Black after defeating part of the Kanda Brigade that were hunting for her. When Asagi woke, she was brought to Yomihara, specifically to the Palace of Darkness, and was placed in Oboro's hands. After gaining a Slave Crest, she was forced to fight in the Demon Arena against Power Lady, Injuu, possibly either a demonized Sakura and Murasaki, or her adopted daughter Asuka.

In the Good/True/Golden Endings, both Asuka and Asagi both killed Oboro, and finally defeated Edwin Black who, thanks to Asuka's charged Taima Particle Cannon, was unable to use his ability to reset the universe. Everybody was able to escape the arena alive, and the location was either possibly destroyed, or taken over by another demon faction.

In the Bad Ending of the Asagi route, that is followed up in Taimanin Asagi ZERO, in which she is forced to kill Sakura and Murasaki, Edwin Black kills the audience and fuses with Asagi, pulling the Human and Demon realm into the Mother Ocean, which creates the ZERO Universe and many other universes.

### Timeline TABA/RPGX

When Fuuma Kotaro, reaches this location with a large raid party of his Fuuma Organization. He finds Asagi and Black in a fight, seeing that Asagi is injured, Kotaro uses his ability to take over her body to fight himself and "kills" Black. However, Black, again like in the Asagi Bad End route, pulls both the Human and Demon Realms into the Mother Ocean, which creates the online universe of Taimanin RPGX and other universes as well.

The location is seen later in RPGX, again as a base of Nomad, though Black is not always at the scene, and Ingrid takes care of the base's daily operations.

## Trivia

* As Nomad is an international cooperation with its closest ties to the UFS, it can be assumed that they have an official HQ that's located elsewhere within the UFS. This also explained why Black and Ingrid are not at all times around the Palace of Darkness, but often would have to make public visits at times.