Chapter 6

Gods and Devils, Part 1 (神々と悪魔その①) is the sixth chapter of the Ellipsis light novel.

Summary
Sada and the others watch as frightening demons known as the Qliphah make their arrival. One after another, the Qliphah known as Hant Asrava, Hant Nirjara, and Hant Kashaya appear before the terrified survivors. With a final heralding from the Fiends, Sada and the others are forced to their knees as the blackened skies part. Before their eyes, the ruler of Olam Tzalmavet, Nullifuge Samvara makes his grand appearance and descends from the skies; welcoming the survivors to their "rebirths".

Samvara and the Qliphah explain that all of the survivors are actually deceased and have been branded as Reprobates. For every "mortal sins" they have committed throughout their past life, they are adorned with a Horn of Sin, marking them as corrupt souls. They go on to explain that they have been gathered to participate in the "Rings of Rebirth": a gauntlet of ten trials where by the end, only one Reprobate will remain alive. The Swamp of Blood was not one of the ten rings and was simply a preliminary test to weed out the weakest of the one-hundred gathered.

They continue by saying that only eighty-five Reprobates remain alive and will be competing going forward. The winner of the Rings of Rebirth shall be resurrected back on Earth while the other ninety-nine losers will be sent to Hell to serve out their sentences of eternal damnation.