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Why are there no frontal battles between the Demon King and the Supreme Deity
(the goddess)?

Is there a rule to prevent that?


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Why is Demon King not leaving purgatory?


There was a great war between the clans 3000 years before the current time in
The Seven Deadly Sins. The two main clans on each side were the Demon and the
Goddess clan. There indeed must have been battles between the Demon King and
the Supreme Deity at that time however none of that is shown in the anime or
the manga. At the end of the war, the Goddess clan basically ended up
defeating the Demon Clan by sealing them away for good using the [Coffin of
Eternal Darkness](http://nanatsu-no-
taizai.wikia.com/wiki/Coffin_of_Eternal_Darkness). The seal was eventually
broken partially by Hendricksen freeing the Ten Commandments and many other
demons but it was not enough to revive the Demon King himself.

So basically, Demon King cannot leave the [Purgatory](http://nanatsu-no-
taizai.wikia.com/wiki/Purgatory). The Purgatory is a space between the living
and the afterlife. It is similar to how Meliodas didn't move go to the
afterlife and instead went to the Purgatory. So the Demon King isn't really
dead but not much of a living being either. He is simply waiting for someone
to revive him.


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It is not because he can't break the seal. Unlike most of the other demons, he
was never sealed because he never actively participated in the war. He was
stuck in Purgatory.

The answer is that he is simply too powerful. Meliodas mentions:

> The Demon King's power is great. Which means I will most likely not be able
> to stay in this world, Britannia, anymore.

The Demon King would probably destroy Britannia by his sheer power if he stays
there. That's why he uses Wandle to keep an eye on Meliodas, then when Wandle
died, he uses Hawk.


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