All This Twisted Glory

Content Warning: This section of the guide includes discussion of graphic violence.

Around the time the temperature around Alizeh dips, Cyrus materializes at the mouth of a moldy, cold cave. This is one of the places to which Iblees often summons him. During his early visits, fear seized Cyrus, but he now knows that fear is not a luxury he can afford. He has no choice but to face the horrors before him. On his first visit, a petrified Cyrus fell 50 feet down a ledge inside the cave, his body shattering on impact with the rock. He expected death, but Iblees reanimated him. Iblees could not let his debtor die so easily. After that excruciating experience of near-death and reanimation, Cyrus knows he must keep his wits about him.

Cyrus carefully enters the cave, where a large spider scampers up his arm to examine him. Cyrus stays still and the spider leaves him alone, announcing he is no danger. Having received safe passage, Cyrus starts up a never-ending staircase that appears before him. He knows the stairs will lead to the devil. Reaching a black archway shrouded by gray clouds, Cyrus jumps into the clouds.