Talk:Daemon/Daemon Lord/@comment-36209226-20200416133619

When I read the light novel, I got the impression that the longer a demon existed, the more opportunity it had to fight and the stronger it got. It seems that Noir/Black/Diablo was the oldest demon. Through some twist of fate, Rouge/Guy was summoned, destroyed a nation and reaped the souls that allowed him to evolve into a True Demon Lord. After Eons of being the strongest demon, Noir/Black/Diablo was no longer the strongest. This gave the rest of the Progenitors hope to get stronger. Two anime episodes lend credence to this theory: 1) Episode Black and the Mask, Noir/Black states how he wanted to destroy the nation (much like Guy had). He also stated how Orthos was a weak follower of Rouge and he wasn't impressed; 2) How upset he was when Baretta was summoned before him as he saw it as another opportunity for an archdemon to evolve beyond the status they currently were.