Chapter 494: Drain Six-Fingers Dry!
Normally, a Legendary Sorcerer had only enough mana for one Ninth Circle spell and one Eighth Circle spell. To have more, a spellcaster needed a somewhat intimate relationship with the Goddess of the Weave, like Elminster and the others favored by the Goddess of Magic.
Alternatively, only spellcasters capable of touching the Other Side of the Weave-the so-called source-had more mana. These included the Archmages of Netheril and people like the elven high mage Barrel.
Even Graz'zt could not cast two Soul Bind spells in a single day.
Yet Aaron had broken free of that restriction, because his affinity with the Abyss far surpassed even Graz'zt's own!
Within the Abyss, he too was an Abyss Child. He was the Abyss Child!
His four avatars exerted their power together. Behind each one, an illusion of one of the Chaos Gods stood proud within the Abyss. Beams of four different colors intertwined, imprisoning Six-Fingers within a fourfold seal.
Graz'zt struggled in terror as he was hauled off the ground and slowly dragged into the air.
Opposite Six-Fingers, the Slaanesh Avatar gradually materialized, this time taking Astarion's form.
"Mmph~ Urgh! Ah!" Graz'zt cried out in despair. "Mmm~ Mwah~ Ah!"
"Why have you gone quiet, darling?" Slaanesh writhed, speaking in a voice that mingled male and female. "Go on, speak! Speak! I'm waiting for an explanation!"
"It's you! It really is you!" Graz'zt nearly went mad. "Astarion!"
Not far from the ruined warehouse, Waukeen, the Lady of Wealth, hesitated for several seconds. She did not know which Aaron to speak to. After wavering for a while, she finally chose Keeper of Secrets Aaron. "Aaron... you?!"
"That's right, Waukeen." Keeper of Secrets Aaron gave a wickedly alluring smile. "My true objective in coming to the Abyss this time was..."
"Six-Fingers.