The news escaped the Underworld within hours.

Not through official channels—realms didn't maintain press releases for cosmic upheavals. But through the mortals who'd witnessed it. Through demons who'd fled and needed to tell someone what they'd seen. Through the psychic ripples that occurred when fundamental authority was destroyed rather than transferred.

The Demon King had fallen. The throne was ash. And the Forsaken Flame had walked away from power that could have made him ruler of an ...