When Nastya entered Aaron's office, our lord viscount was humming a tune. He was clearly in a good mood.
Aaron had stripped twenty points of divinity from Cyric, practically tearing them out of the mad god's underwear. He split those twenty points seventy-thirty with the Chaos Gods: seventy percent for himself, thirty for the four gods. Since Nurgle had not fully accepted Aaron, however, he could skip giving Grandpa Fatty his share.
In other words, Aaron had gained fourteen points of divinity outright. Cyric's lingering will had already been destroyed within all fourteen points, leaving pure divinity that Aaron could use however he pleased.
First, Aaron released one point of divinity into the Sword of the Dark Moon that Mama Selûne had given him, upgrading the weapon from very rare to legendary quality.
The Dark Sun's divinity gave the weapon twice the power against undead. As the god currently governing the Underworld, death, and the dead, Cyric possessed authority over undead within his divinity. Combined with Mama Selûne's own power, this infusion of divinity brought the Blade of the Dark Moon's effectiveness against undead to another level. Any undead facing Aaron would now instinctively feel fear. The Sword of the Dark Moon would deal double damage to undead, and every attack had a chance of stunning them.
Next, Aaron bestowed another point of divinity upon his staff-the Night Without Light. Now, whenever he wished, he could use the staff's power to transform the nearby sky into a lightless dark moon.
This authority united the powers of Selûne, Mysty, Aaron's Heavens Magic, and Cyric's divinity.
Aaron then used Drach'nyen to devour a sliver of the Dark Sun's divinity, leaving him with eleven points.
Devouring the Dark Sun's divinity raised Aaron's level as an Exalted Chaos Sorcerer once more. He was now