"Interesting." Lathander could not help laughing. "Demogorgon values this world highly, but it seems to be for different reasons than we thought.
Sure enough, trying to guess Demons using our own way of thinking simply would not work."
Hill understood why he said that.
Both of Demogorgon's heads had appeared. Yet Hethradiah, the more hot-tempered and emotionally unstable head, had only been sneering despite his expressive face, and had not interfered with the conversation between the more calculating, scheming Aameul and Graz'zt.
Generally, Hethradiah only gave up opposing Aameul when Demogorgon needed to devise a complex plan or command his armies, issuing orders to his subordinates and followers.
Demogorgon had maintained his absolute advantage as the Prince of Demons despite Orcus and Graz'zt's constant plots against him, and that had much to do with his two heads still knowing what mattered most at critical moments.
"This world..." Shar said carefully. "It does not seem beneficial to Demogorgon. He seems extremely wary and hostile.
Why?
If he could figure out the dual-core research, would that not be rather valuable to Demogorgon, who had always been prevented from becoming a true Abyssal Lord because of the conflict between his two heads?"
Hill rubbed Telly's large head as it hung in his arms and looked around, then said thoughtfully, "You should know that Telashir once nearly collapsed as a newborn world because of Demogorgon's full-force strike against a Star Spirit, right?"
"But this world clearly is not like Telashir, a world with a very complete planar membrane that appeared at the very birth of the universe." Shar answered with great experience. "It is a small world casually created on the foundation of the Greater Astral Plane, the sort with only a few planets.
If it appeared after Telashir, this world would not... at