After agreeing to Demogorgon's terms, Solam had been agonizing over what to do next. Resurrecting Demogorgon was troublesome enough, but there was an insurmountable obstacle mixed up in all this... Malcanthet!
Solam had only just formed an alliance with Malcanthet, and now he was going to resurrect her old flame... Yet there had never been the slightest warmth between that old flame and Malcanthet. The resentment those two held toward Malcanthet was no less than what they felt for each other.
For once, Hethradiah and Aameul were in complete agreement when it came to dealing with Malcanthet. Both wanted to capture her and torture her until she wished she were dead!
But Malcanthet and Solam had signed a mutual defense pact. If Demogorgon moved against Malcanthet, Solam would have to help. Yet Demogorgon had also signed the highest-grade soul contract with Solam, forbidding them from ever harming him.
That left everything deadlocked. Solam naturally did not care whether Malcanthet lived or died, but he had no desire to get tangled up in this mess. All he wanted was to peacefully find a way back to the Material Plane!
Besides, grudges on this level were simply too dangerous. Even standing on the sidelines could get him caught in the crossfire and killed. Back when the Three Giants had fought for supremacy, who knew how many demon lords had lost their lives after inexplicably getting dragged into the conflict between the two-headed baboon, Six-Fingered **, and the fat bastard? Solam did not want to end up like them.
More importantly, once Demogorgon was resurrected, the Abyss would enter its most chaotic era since the age of the obyriths! Leaving aside the fact that Demogorgon would certainly seek revenge against Malcanthet after his return, Graz'zt and Demogorgon were hardly on good terms either,