"What a fine bargain!"
Even Undead King Orcus had shown up? Aaron thought he had finally witnessed a true gathering today.
Here, on the insignificant sixty-sixth layer of the Abyss, all three great lords had actually assembled!
Undead King Orcus spread his wings and swept a hundred meters forward. The Scepter of Orcus descended in his hand, killing ten demon-touched drow on the spot. This Abyssal Lord, whose infamy extended throughout the Multiverse and who alone among the three great lords was widely worshipped as a deity in the mortal world, landed before Aaron and the others.
"I thought the Undead King wasn't one of Lolth's vassals?" Drizzt, the dark elf ranger, asked in some confusion.
"The affairs of the Abyss need no interference from an Abyss Child from another universe. Aaron, your crimes have caught up with you." A vicious grin spread across Undead King Orcus's enormous goat face. "That spider bitch is detestable, and Graz'zt is even more disgusting, but compared to that stench on you, I'd still rather deal with you first!"
Beneath the dusky sunset, Orcus's enormous bulk crushed the districts surrounding Madeleine City. The Undead King swung the Scepter of Orcus, turning terrifying undead magic into gray-white lightning. Six demon-soul corpses climbed up from the ground. One of the three great lords of the Abyss, the Undead King stood proudly in the middle of the district. The intense aura of death emanating from him made him seem less like a demon and more like an undead sovereign ruling the underworld. That potent air of decay drove every living creature nearby away. Some fey'ri who had not yet fully died turned to bare bones the instant they strayed too close.
The many metal creatures Aaron had summoned also crumbled into nothing, leaving only grains of molten