Chapter 540

• "Um, it talked about Lucifer. Or rather, Lucifer talked about his goals. You know, fighting, taking down Heaven, taking back what's his--er, theirs. It borderline read like a military leader's speech before starting a 'righteous' war." She air-quoted righteous. "It talked about Belial. Rise Belial this, rise Belial that, attacking Heaven, and it gave me the names of the nine spires, the nine heavenly islands, and... and... stuff." No need to talk about the runes floating around in her skull. "I didn't read anything about a trial."
• "Not all that the book knows is shown to the reader."
• "Not..." Okay, magic book that obeyed its own rules? Whatever. If it was written by Satan, she could accept that. She gestured to the spire. "Does this affect us at all?"