The Crown of Chaos
Chapter 500

Finalizing the expedition (second update!)

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The conversation between the Bald Singer and Lady Orem revealed a brutal truth.

Waukeen had not gone missing. She was trapped in a prison somewhere in the Abyss.

What Morgan had not told Aaron and the others was that he actually knew Lady Orem. Once a merchant's business reached the scale of the Multiverse, he might come into contact with gods of wealth from other spheres. Different spheres had different gods of wealth. The only distinction was that in some spheres, portfolios such as wealth and trade might fall under a greater deity's broader jurisdiction, while in others, an intermediate deity might oversee them exclusively.

The two compared accounts, each describing some of the details they knew.

The Bald Singer had found his divine gold coin stained with Waukeen's blood in Azzagrat. According to Morgan's investigation, after Waukeen was captured, Six-Fingers Graz'zt had sealed away all her divine power. She was now no different from an ordinary woman. Graz'zt kept trying to trick Waukeen into surrendering her divine soul and divine rank so that his daughter could replace her as the goddess of wealth.

Waukeen had tried bribing her guards and escaped from prison once, but fear of the Abyssal Lord soon overwhelmed their longing for the rewards the goddess of wealth had promised. After Graz'zt arrived, Waukeen was locked back inside his Silver Palace, enduring every kind of humiliation and torment day after day. Morgan's bloodstained divine gold coin had been dropped during that escape. The Archdevil had paid a hefty sum to buy it from a demon guard.

As for anything else, Morgan himself did not know much.

Lady Saint Coin soon corroborated his account.

Lady Orem sighed and motioned for Morgan to follow her.

"Whatever you were in life, you're a devil now, Morgan. The old me

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