Erinyes—that was the name of the Demon Queen who once ruled over the Southern Continent. Her beauty enthralled all who gazed upon her, and none could resist her siren-like voice. She was a High Archangel who’d fallen from Heaven, and so it came to pass that some called her the Fallen Queen. A thousand years ago, Abel the Savior defeated her in battle and sealed her away in a prison underneath the Last Dungeon.
Everyone on the Southern Continent knew that story. I—Eugene Santafield—had heard it many times as a kid. The Demon Queen Erinyes was a mythological figure from worlds away, a bogey who appeared in children’s picture books. That was how things were supposed to be.