Aaron reached into the Mind Flayer Elder Brain's spawning pool. A powerful psionic force surged into his mind in an instant, yet failed to harm him in the slightest. The chaos force pouring from his brain, meanwhile, unleashed a storm of attacks upon the Elder Brain!
Chaos force was everywhere and encompassed everything. This power came from the reflections of mortal emotions within the Warp, and it very likely no longer needed to feed on mortal emotions at all. Through their internecine wars, the Four Gods always had an inexhaustible supply of emotional energy to enjoy. After condensing his chaos power into a potent force, Aaron swiftly corrupted the entire spawning pool. Before their eyes, the dead Mind Flayer Tadpoles surrounding the pool began to revive under the influence of chaos force. They became the vanguard of chaos, scrambling toward the Elder Brain and gnawing relentlessly at its Mind Blank.
As chaos power continued to pour in, the pool gradually mutated. Its uniform color gave way to a multitude of hues. The Elder Brain struggled frantically, sending warning after warning to Aaron and hurling one psionic ability after another at him, only for Tzeentch's Destiny Tome to absorb them all. When the Slaanesh tentacles extending from Aaron's palm plunged viciously into its surface, the Mind Flayer Elder Brain finally lost the strength to resist.
Aaron was able to read the Elder Brain's recent thoughts.
Karsus's Crown? Karsus's Avatar?
He sank into contemplation. Netheril's Archmages had indeed left many legacies in the Realms, and many of them were still benefiting-or plaguing-the Realms to this day.
But Karsus was an exception. What that fellow had done was a little too outrageous.
Aaron remembered reading that Karsus's stone statue was currently in the High Forest. The Archmage had been permanently petrified by the