Chapter 795: Afterword 2: The future ultimately belongs to the youth
Candlelight flickered, the goose-feather pen scratched on the parchment.
Although Hell had already fully popularized the Magic Mirror, and handwritten notes had become outdated, Hake Stone still enjoyed the feeling of the pen tip writing on paper.
How many world masterpieces were written on such quiet nights by lone authors, gently or passionately crafting their work?
As a scholar, Hake Stone still preferred to record history in the traditional way.
"In the eightieth year of the Deception Calendar, Avernus was fervently celebrating the eightieth anniversary of the Grand Duke’s appointment.
"Among all the Archdukes of the Devils, perhaps only He could receive genuine adoration from all Demons. But the Demons do not understand that their days now are hardly better than eighty years ago.
"Blood battles that could result in death at any moment have been replaced by Undead, so most Demons no longer need to worry about blood battles, but they need to work their entire lives, barely earning enough money to ’hire’ Undead to join the blood battles in their place.
"But they do not know that the value they create is enough to exchange for a decent territory. Zombies, which could be mass-produced by simply tossing rotten meat, require a year’s worth of a Demon’s work to exchange, yet this Undead might be discarded before it ever sees battle for various reasons..."