On the Sevenfold Heavenly Mountain, the war stopped. Angels, demons, and devils laid down their arms. The stillness before the storm settled over everything, unbearably oppressive.
The Spider Lady quietly shifted her position, ready to return to the Bottomless Abyss at any moment and use both the Abyss and her Divine Kingdom to withstand the Good Snake if he appeared.
As the former wife of Corellon, the Elf Chief God, the Spider Lady knew that even when the Elf Gods had been at the height of their power, her husband had never set foot on the Sevenfold Heavenly Mountain.
She had thought him a coward, unwilling to make enemies of the good gods. Now it was clear that something terrifying lurked within the Sevenfold Heavenly Mountain.
The instant a terrifying aura erupted from the Sevenfold Heavenly Mountain, the Lady of Pain silently vanished from its vicinity and returned to Sigil.
Then Sigil quietly changed its position.
As a powerful outsider who had entered this universe from beyond the Multiverse, the Lady of Pain understood the dreadful power within the Sevenfold Heavenly Mountain better than these native-born True Gods.
The Lady of Pain is gone. My chance has come. The Divination was right after all... The Lord of Slime, Jubilex, sensed his moment had arrived.
Before Yondalla, the Halfling God, could recover from the Lady of Pain's torment, he came before her and unleashed his Divine Power. First he suppressed her consciousness, then began to erode her little by little.
Jubilex intended to turn Yondalla into his Avatar, then use her power to steal Faith and influence Halflings across the Planes, luring them toward Corruption. Finally, he would seize the Authority over "Halflings."
That way, he could take everything the Halfling God possessed.
*But what exactly is happening inside the Sevenfold