As Alaric stood over the defeated High Priest, he prepared to strike the final blow and reclaim his throne. However, Lilith whispered the true terms of the Senki pact. The war wasn't meant to save his kingdom; it was a harvest.

The crown was placed on Alaric’s head, but as he sat on the throne, his skin turned to cold marble. He became a "King of Ash," a permanent conduit for the Abyss. Lilith stood behind him, the true power behind the throne, as the once-proud kingdom was renamed the .

Prince Alaric was never meant to lead. As the third son of a dying kingdom, he spent his days in the forbidden sections of the royal archives. When his brothers fell in a sudden coup led by a corrupt high priest, Alaric fled into the ancient catacombs beneath the capital, clutching a single, obsidian-bound tome.

Desperate and cornered by inquisitors, Alaric performed a ritual he barely understood. He didn't summon a celestial protector; he tore open a rift to the Abyss. From the smoke emerged Lilith, a High Succubus of the Senki—an elite caste of demon tacticians who thrive on the chaos of war. The War of Shadows

Lilith didn’t offer her services for free. She bound Alaric in a Soul-Link, a contract where his life force fueled her physical form, and in exchange, she granted him command over her legion of lesser succubi and shadow-wraiths.