When the Iron Melting Fortress, less than a hundred miles away, nearly blew up along with everyone inside because of the energy fireworks gushing out of a portal, Li Wei—the instigator of it all—had no idea that the Void Umbral Energy contained in his breath had reacted with other elements in the deep sea and not only triggered the eruption of a supervolcano somewhere in the Chaos Sea, but had also indirectly caused Krazik, the Bachiz Devilfish who had just glimpsed his lifelong desire before it fell into the abyss again, to unleash an unprecedented surge of psionic power. Together, they surged through the interplanar portal, which hadn't been closed in time, and into the Iron Melting Fortress.
Even Li Wei, the source of this calamity, would never have imagined that one little breath of his, through a series of unfortunate coincidences, would cause an in-transit strike spanning an entire plane of the Chaos Sea—and that, due to the Iron Melting Fortress's chief Archon having incomplete information, it would be mistaken for the work of some big-shot Silver Dragon from the Far Realm or the Astral Plane.
He also had no idea that the Drow in Gershon City, above him, were overjoyed when they got the news. They were even preparing to call an early Matriarch Council meeting to consider whether they should take advantage of this once-in-a-millennium opportunity: the Mind Flayer Elder Brains were wounded, and the West Wall had collapsed. Perhaps they could press their attack in one fell swoop.
Unfortunately, Li Wei knew nothing about any of this.
At that moment, he was frowning as he and Remlu, who was practically a dead slime, cleaned up the wreckage of their lair. Then, under Remlu's horrified gaze, he took out another pile of Spellcasting Materials and began laying