Malcanthet was furious, but she had no energy to care about that now, because something major had happened in the Abyss again.
It was Queen of Chaos and Shaami-Amour. They seemed to have acquired another segment of the Rod of Seven Parts. Ever since it became known that Shaami-Amour and Queen of Chaos had joined forces to summon Miska the Wolf-Spider back, demons across the Abyss had been watching the matter with intense concern. Countless Tanar'ri had flooded into the Steaming Fen, hoping to find Queen of Chaos and Shaami-Amour.
Many demon lords had even directly dispatched their armies to the Steaming Fen.
With everyone so united, no matter how strange the Steaming Fen was, it was impossible for Queen of Chaos and the others to leave no trace at all. Besides, Queen of Chaos looked far too distinctive to hide.
(Queen of Chaos's lower body consisted of countless squid-like purplish-red tentacles, with a birdlike beak concealed amid them. The tentacles were constantly coated in glistening mucus. Red and purple veins crisscrossed her skin. Her upper body was that of an immensely huge blue-skinned humanoid woman. Her eyes and hair were blackish-green, clinging to her curls. When standing, she was roughly twenty-five feet tall.)
They had been discovered more than once, and on several occasions had even fought Tanar'ri who came looking for them. Though Queen of Chaos's overwhelming power allowed them to swiftly disengage each time, one thing was certain: they truly intended to summon Miska the Wolf-Spider.
The most recent time, when a group of Tanar'ri found them again, they were fighting a group of Vaati. Although the Tanar'ri did everything they could to interfere with Queen of Chaos's plans, the Vaati evidently mistook them for Queen of Chaos's allies. Thus, with the Vaati and Tanar'ri inadvertently assisting