Drawn from differing backgrounds, from every facet of society, nine gather to oppose God. In a society very much like ours, the Church and State however are one, and heretics are punished; and failure to show up for service gets you fined. The priests know everything, for interior locutions tell them of all crimes: but ignore the private sins. From this, Gilbert the seminarian deduces that the spirit behind the locutions is not good. At the top of the world, with weapons of power from the bound Titans, the Nine make war against the Usurper that infects all society, only to find that he is actually God. And so they have no choice but to make war against God Himself, for God has become unjust. They descend through beautiful underrealms to free the primeval spirit of iniquity that is bound there, uniting all the forces of Hell against the Authority.