There are seven layers of Hell. Each layer corresponds to the Seven Demon Lords who each represent a Primordial Sin. Lucifer the Sin of Pride, Mammon the Sin of Greed, Asmodeus the Sin of Lust, Leviathan the Sin of Envy, Beelzebub the Sin of Gluttony, Satan the Sin of Wrath, and Belphegor the Sin of Sloth.
The First Layer of Hell otherwise known as Hungry Ghost is where a Devil begins their life. Devils are creature born from evil and malicious actions of other Worlds and they are very common as Hell has multiple connections to different Worlds whether voluntary or not.
The First Layer is mainly a flat ground with sparse vegetations and lots of volcanos with volcanic ashes commonly raining down from the crimson sky. The ground of the First Layer is a mixture of cooled lava and asphalt creating a sulfuric smell everywhere.
The most known thing about the First Layer isn't the scenery but the emotions every being including the Devils experience when living there, the unsatiable feeling of hunger. They always feel hungry and only by eating can they momentarily satisfy their hunger.
Thats why the Demons below the First Layer usually call it a place for brutes and savages because Devils only fight and eat each other on the First Layer. The only way to stop the hunger is by eating other Devils on the First Layer of Hell and becoming strong enough to overcome the hunger where they can continue their evolution by going to the Second Layer of Hell.
Unfortunately for all the Devils on the First Layer the feeling of hunger was one thousand times stronger today compared to usual. Even the Devils at the peak of the food chain couldn't resist the hunger. The only reason a phenomenon like this could happen is because the Demon Lord of the First Layer of Hell would be doing something.
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"Haha my work has finally come to fruition!"
An overgrown fly with three head and a crown in the middle of the head laughed happily while he stared at a mirror Infront of him.
The reason for the stronger feeling of hunger was because of him, Beelzebub, in his joy he spread his aura around the First Layer making the feeling of hunger way stronger than usual.
"My years of effort has finally paid off, and I can finally taste what a Greater World will be like."
While saying this Beelzebub's appetite rose to an extreme as he imagined what a Greater World would taste like. He had eaten multiple other Worlds before, but they were Small Worlds and he the novelty of eating them had faded and now that he was strong enough, he set his sights on a Greater World.
"The people I have corrupted in the Fals World have finally gathered enough materials for my descent soon I will ravage the world."
Beelzebub spoke calmly with a tinge of anger in his voice, he was very strong as an individual but even he wasn't strong enough to descent freely onto different Worlds. They always carried a Universal Law around it that made it impossible for Demon Lords to freely descent into it directly, so he has to corrupt natives on the Worlds to give him a backdoor access to the World.
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The feeling of anger faded away as he stared at the mirror that showed a scene of an evil ritual. There were priests donning different animal skulls as they made the followers circle around a pentagram. The pentagram would be where Beelzebub descent from and the priests were chanting esoteric words.
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"Your majesty Beelzebub, the Prince of Gluttony, the Spreader of Plague, please descent down onto this world and teach the foolish what true hunger feels like."
The three priests donning different animal skulls kept repeating these words as the pentagram started lighting up a blood red color and an ominous wind started spiraling from it creating a vortex around the pentagram.
The ritual was very close to complete, and they would only have to continue doing this and their God would finally descend. They cult was started hundreds of years ago when the Founding Members experienced an uncontrollable hunger, and they reached enlightenment when a blurry entity appeared in their dream calling himself Beelzebub. He didn't tell them how to control hunger or how to stop it he simply told them that,
"If it is hunger that they are feeling then why don't you just eat to satisfy yourself? What is restricting you from just eating? Eating is something that everyone does, and it is a joy that everyone shouldn't restrict themselves from. So just eat and let your primal desires take over."
When they heard those words, they prostrated themselves before the figure and proclaimed him as the one true God. Ever since then they had been working together to gathering materials to be able to make their God descend. They faced a lot of challenges as their way of doing things was nefarious and evil and their God was evil in nature but that didn't deter their zealously.
Through years of efforts their cult had become one of the strongest and biggest but through their fame came enemies who proclaimed them as evil, and they vowed to exterminate them.
"I can't wait for the Lord to descend upon us."
"I know right. We've fought those Holy Knights for so long and we're finally going to destroy them once our Lord descends."
As the followers were kneeling on the ground whispered to each other in a very lax manner. The place they were doing their ritual was very secretive and no one should be able to come to stop them.
BOOM!
A loud explosion occurred as the roof of the church was exploded. Debris fell down from the ceiling and tried to crush the followers and priests to death. Fortunately, the priests and followers wouldn't be able to crush from measly stones. Through the hole in the ceiling, they were able to see who caused that commotion.
"Damn it! It's the people from the Holy Alliance! Everyone attack them! We can't let them stop the ritual, we're so close to finishing."
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As Beelzebub stared at what was happening, he fumed with anger. There were no unexpected events happening and if it continued like that, he would be able to descend no problem but now with this accident he could be possibly barred.
"I will skin and eat those foolish mortals once I descend!"
One of his legs slammed on the arms of the throne as he cursed. He then sat up from his seat as he used his legs to tear a hole through space. A gigantic maw opened from his abdomen. The maw was ugly, and jam packed with razor teeth spiraling. Multiple body parts fell down from the maw as they went into the tear of space.
"I can only send those pieces to help my followers, hopefully they'll succeed."
Beelzebub then sat down on his throne as he continued to view the scenes. He knew his anger couldn't solve anything so the most he could do was to forcefully open a small hole in the World where he could send some of his power to help his followers.
"The rest is up to fate, whether I descend or not."