Chapter 4: Prologue IV : The Demons Nightmare
3000 years in the depths of Hell—that was his sentence.
Kang Soo Jin, after his death, was a damned soul among many others, tormented within the circles of Hell in eternal suffering.
Yet he retained the soul of a revolutionary. In Hell, he fought.
He learned to tame pain and endure suffering, to witness atrocities that would shatter the minds of most.
But amidst the horrors, he discovered, he traveled, he learned.
He expanded his understanding of the world, aided by fellow damned souls and certain demons he had managed to subdue.
For demons were creatures without good conscience, born of malice and deceit.
They did not speak truth unless it was to twist it.
They lived only to corrupt and destroy. The only way to communicate with such beings was to dominate them—to rule.
And Kang Soo Jin did. Through force of will and pain-forged wisdom, he bent some of them to his cause.
He learned many hidden truths about the world, including the nature of the steles and the origin of the meteorites—truths he kept to himself.