Journey Through Faerûn
Chapter 1237

An Offer No One Could Refuse

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Sifk's Stone was not a famous name in the multiverse. Solam knew of it only because of Kardum's memories. It was one of Malcanthet's secrets, and fewer than ten beings in the entire Abyss knew it.

Kardum was one of them. He had obtained this intelligence by chance from Shami-Amour. There was a saying that made perfect sense: the person who knew you best was most likely your enemy.

The origins of Sifk's Stone were tied to the struggle for the title of Succubus Queen.

In that distant, turbulent age, many first-generation succubi fought brutal battles to the death over the position of Succubus Queen. Among them, Malcanthet, Shami-Amour, Xinivrae—a succubus obsessed with seducing women; well, she was a succubus, which meant she was a complete lesbian—and Lynkhab were known as the Four Heavenly Kings of the Succubi.

In the end, Shami-Amour was supplanted by Malcanthet as Demogorgon's mistress, then cast by that scumbag Demogorgon into the prison mines of the Well of Darkness, where she remained locked away for thousands of years. After Malcanthet used her lover's whip to inflict wounds that could never heal, Xinivrae was exiled to the 230th layer of the Abyss, the Nightmare Abyss. Only Lynkhab survived, but she had lost all her former glory and sunk into a mire of self-destruction, no longer posing any threat to Malcanthet.

Thus, the era of the Four Heavenly Kings came to an end, leaving Malcanthet alone to shine. Even so, Malcanthet remained extraordinarily wary of the other three, guarding against their return at every moment.

And the origins of Sifk's Stone began with Xinivrae, the pure lily among the Four Heavenly Kings.

That was also in a distant age, when Malcanthet was not yet like she was now, delegating everything to her Radiant Sisters. Back then, she

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