"Alright then," Evian said with his arms folded, "Let's hear it."
[First off, if what you want is the codex of Abyssal symbols, they are within the Decadent Store but will require a premium unlock to make them available for purchase. In other words, they will cost you much more than any spell you've ever purchased has cost you.]
"Is that why you didn't tell me about it till now? Because it costs more?"
[Partly yes. But more because the symbols are useless as they are. The combinations will forever be limited in power and utilization without the most important 'ingredient' of them all]
"And what is that?"
The Assistant struggled to speak and when it did, it meandered,
[... The Abyss is endless as it is ageless. Not even the oldest of the beings that reside within it know all its secrets]
"But you do?"
[In a sense.
No one knows how the Abyss came to be. When creation began for the mortal worlds and beyond, the Abyss already existed. It might have been empty and devoid of all the creatures that now roam it but it existed and for as long as it has existed, there has been a Sovereign;
A stark manifestation of the very nature of the Abyss.
As Eldritch creatures began to come to being, they all, on some level knew this Sovereign. They worshipped it and it, in turn, bestowed them power.
There is much to speak about but for the sake of what you actually want, I'll stick to what is 'Most Important';
'The Word of Law'! A power unique to the Sovereign and the one that bonds Abyssal symbols together to give them their power.
A compendium complete with all the symbols will be useless to you without 'The Word of Law'.]
"And how do I get this 'Word of Law'?" Evian asked with a musing tone and his brows furrowed.
[The only way would be to seize possession of it from the Sovereign and that's impossible.]
"Seize it huh?," Evian said like he hadn't heard the dread tone his Assistant had spoken with.
[You would be mad to try.]
"Hmm, so you say. Where is the Sovereign?" Evian asked.
[... The Sovereign is everywhere and nowhere within the Abyss. It's a constant horror that no Eldritch creature can ever truly escape or avoid succumbing to.]
"How about an answer less vague?"
"So One Wraith Prince against Eighth Sixth Circle Arcanists, as well as you who can revive their carcasses to do your bidding, and— you still failed," the Wraith King said.
"It's not that simple..." Behran started.
"Oh, but I think it is. Let me guess, after I authorized a plan to end his life with the use of an Ambush, you deemed it fit to have a conversation with him. To reason with him."
"I thought he could be useful to our plans—"
"Ridiculous!"
"Against the Arcanists, he cast spells. Spells that even you would be in awe of," Behran said.
"Again, I say, Ridiculous. What could that greenhorn know of the Abyssal symbols and their composition into Eldritch Spell Circles that I, Agenon, do not."
"He can Phase," Behran said.
"He can what?" Agenon asked, sounding stunned.
"He can Phase," Behran repeated, "I sew it with my own eyes. Every attack the Arcanists threw, passed right through him."
"Impossible," Agenon said. His eyes were now opened and their cold greys were oozing disbelief.
Spells were another matter altogether but to render the material useless and move through it as if it were not there— That was a Privilege that used to belong to the most worthy creatures of Decadence.
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For eons, the Sovereign had been quiet and not held the Worthiness ceremony, tossing the already rowdy Abyss into a deeper slope of chaos so why did the ability to Phase exist again now? And why did it exist here?
'Has the Sovereign finally spoken? But why choose a Wraith from whom I can sense no connection to the Abyss over more deserving candidates? Over me,' Agenon thought, his frown deepening.
He looked up into Behran's eyes and for a second, he considered that he was being lied to only to throw such an assumption aside almost immediately. What he saw in Behran's eyes lacked any hint of dishonesty. The Wraith Lord might have seen wrong but that could be the 'easily' confirmed with a well-executed capture.
"We need to find out just how much he knows. Especially what he knows that we do not. It might help us against 'him'."
Hearing of 'him' caused Behran to shiver and twist his expression but once he returned to normal, he spoke again,
"So you agree he should be recruited. I've seen just what he can do and although he's stubborn, I believe I can—"
"Recruit him? Why would we want or need to do that? We have the most important card in hard and we need not add another to the deck. No, we will capture Evian Stygian, recover what he knows, and get rid of a possible complication.
That's the plan, Behran, and you'll be wise not to deviate from it."
Behran paused and then bowed,
"Of course, Agenon. As you wish."