Who Is The Fool?

Salazar is a prime demon, one of the only 8 in the entire plane. It is proof of his talent. With that talent comes ambition and thirst for power.

He was grooming Bael into another prime demon noble like him so that the two of them will have a better chance of making Salazar the demon lord. But now that Bael will probably die, he has to look for another window of opportunity. What window of opportunity can be greater than the demon lord abdicating?

"Are you still going to join hands with us?" He asked the demon lord.

The demon lord answered. "Yes."

He thought about why he didn't want to attack Aeternus when Alkazhi just died. He felt it was like gambling. If you start and you lose some of your resources, a desire compels you to gamble more and recoup your losses. You might get back your resources or you might lose everything. He wasn't willing to gamble more resources just to kill Aeternus. It wasn't worth it.