Devil Army

**The Devil Army** is one of the 9 clans currently reigning over the Tower. It is currently consisted by High Ranker that primarily drive their power from Demonic Energy and serves an Unnamed Demon God, also called as The Heavenly Devil that was later revealed to be the original of the Monkey King.

## Structure

### Bishops

Its been stated that the leadership body that commands the Devil Army is primarily consists of 9 Bishops, who are presumably charged with the leading the Devil Army and its subdivisions, with the 1st rank being its primary leader and the 2nd rank and so on being under him.

* Highl (1st Bishop)
* Black Dawn (1st Bishop) (formerly) (deceased)
* Kindred (2nd Bishop)
* Black Skull (3rd Bishop)
* Unknown (4th Bishop)
* Unknown (5th Bishop)
* Dmitri (8th Bishop) (formerly) (deceased)
* Jevich (9th Bishop) (formerly) (deceased)
* Aether (9th Bishop) (formerly) (deceased)

Later it was revealed that the true identity of the "Heavenly Demon" that founded and leads the Clan is in truth the Monkey King and each of the Bishops within the Clan have been given a portion of his powers and posses the designation as *The Monkey King's Descendants*. Effectively granting each of them access to the *Arts* created by the King and can thus use the *72 Bian*.

Underneath the Bishops are the lower ranks of the Devil Army, the **Diocesan Bishops**, **High Priests**, **Normal Priests** and **Honorary Priests**.

### Symbol

As proof of membership in the Devil Army, members are branded with the clan's symbol, a triangle with a single open eye inside it. The symbol itself is specially applied to the forehead of members and is hidden most of the time unless the member exerts their demonic energy and makes it appear.

The Devil Army's Symbol placed into the foreheads of members
## Members

Each member of the Devil Army was stated to most likely be "Dark Magicians" due to them making frequent deals with Demons to acquire power. Because of this a majority of its members are known to emit powerful malignant demonic energy from such deals.

Other than this, the Members of the Devil Army, such as Kindred, are also users of the 72 Bian Arts of the "Heavenly Demon" that the Army worships and as such are the designated "Descendants of the Monkey King" and even have in their possession the many fragments of the Ryu Bang scattered all over the Obelisk.

## Headhunting

Similar to the other Top Clans within the Tower, the Devil Army was shown to actively headhunt and recruit any promising or powerful Rankers they can find into their Clan. Its unknown of their exact criteria for recruitment is but it has been shown that the higher ups of the Devil Army have no problem inviting and accepting traitors from other rival Clans.

This is seen where they accepted Aether from Elohim as an ally when he offered to betray Elohim to join the Devil Army and later the Higher Ups had little to no hesitation in considering him to be even be given the rank of the 9th Bishop once he proved his worth during the siege against Walpurgisnacht.

As seen with Kindred, the Heavenly Demon that the Clan serves can also supposedly "order" them to recruit someone. As seen where the Heavenly Demon "ordered" Kindred to bring "Cain" over to the Devil Army's side, and later it was implied by Kindred that the Devil Army wasn't above using force and coercion to make their desired recruits forcibly work with them.

Later this was proven when the Devil Army kidnapped Doyle in order to force Kahn assist them in their plans to revive the "Heavenly Devil".

## History

The Current Head Bishop of the Army, Highl was stated to have completely taken over the clan after he once sidedly massacred the previous head bishop in combat over control of the Clan and slaughtered the previous generation of Bishops and had them replaced. He then made himself known to be the most powerful Bishop in the Clan's history and being crowned one of the Nine Kings.

Although unknown why or what happened between them, Arthia's Leader,Cha Jeong-woo was stated to have ran afoul and become bitter enemies with Highl. Which then lead to the Devil Army to spearhead the operations to obliterate Arthia and was possibly one of the first of the Top Clans to try and destroy them.

## Faith

The Devil Army is notoriously known to be fanatic religious believers in the "Heavenly Demon" and deny and outright denounces all of the other Gods and Demons of the 98th Floor of the Obelisk as nothing more than "lesser beings" and believe that the Heavenly Devil to be the one true God.

The Members of the Devil Army are notorious of being crazed fanatical worshipers of the Heavenly Demon and almost all of their motivations and reasons for their actions, whether they be killing someone, sacrificing someone, slaughtering others and other horrific actions, was because their God willed it. This has effectively caused a majority of the Obelisk to brand them to be deranged zealots and bloodthirsty religious lunatics.

As revealed by its First and Second Bishops, despite fanatically worshipping the Heavenly Demon, their God itself despises them and has long since abandoned them. This is revealed that the Heavenly Demon had apparently removed their ability to use or access his Holy Power despite being his worshippers and having personally cursed the First Bishop with a curse that is slowly eating away at his body and destroying it. Due to the sensitivity of this information and danger it could possess if it were to ever get out, the only one's aware of this is the First and Second Bishops who conceal it from the rest of their clanmates to avoid the disastrous backlash.

Later, the Head Bishop managed to make contact with the six older blood sworn brothers of the Monkey King, the Seven Demon Kings, effectively gaining their support and receiving various divine blessings and gifts from them.

## Goal

The main goal of the Devil Army is the apparent revival of their worshipped God, the "Heavenly Demon", who for some time in ages past had entered into a deep sleep. The Devil Army has shown to be highly fanatical for this goal and sees it as a religious mission.

However despite them trying to revive their God due to their "loyalty" its evident that the Devil Army are also doing this out of Greed and Avarice for acquiring the power of the Heavenly Demon for themselves. This is seen where they had no problems capturing one of the Heavenly Demons "faces" and try to merge it together with their Head Bishop in order to "reincarnate" their God, but is in truth is empowering the Head Bishop and helping him evolved into a new Divine Being. The members of the Devil Army fanatically believe this to be serving their God due to them technically reincarnating him in a new form, as it was believed that the Heavenly Devil had incarnated his souls numerous times and as such had hundreds of identities, reincarnations and forms.

They successfully do this by finding the other "Sheddings" left behind by the Heavenly Demon (such as the Shedding of the Monkey King left behind in the Monkey King's Palace), restrain them and then use a powerful large scale ritual to merge the shedding together with their Head Bishop to reincarnate him as a new face of the Heavenly Demon.

## Trivia

* The First Bishop, was stated to frequently change the holders of the titles of 3rd through 6th Bishops within the Devil Army.