Therefore, Amn's army often suffered a rapid morale collapse and large-scale rout when encountering powerful enemies or the battles were too bloody and cruel.

Even with the assistance of the Masked Mage Guild, they can only barely hold on to their current territory.

Only when those big chambers of commerce send their elites to develop overseas colonies and earn huge profits through monopoly will this country burst into real power.

Seeing that her strategy failed from the beginning, Zeranora immediately frowned and cautiously asked: "Do you have to build a mage tower in the city?"

"That's right!"

Zuo Si answered in the affirmative simply and neatly.

The two stared at each other's eyes like this for more than ten seconds. Finally, Zeranora chose to compromise and took out a prepared agreement from her arms: "Here, here is the six-person council and the masked agreement.

The Mages Guild has unanimously decided on the final conditions after discussion. If you can accept it, please sign it."

Zuo Si took it and glanced at it twice, and found that the content above was very simple. In summary, there were only three articles in total.

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The first is that he must join the Masked Mage in name only, but he does not need to bear responsibilities or obligations, let alone obey anyone's orders. He only needs to help when facing a large-scale invasion by monsters such as orcs.

The second article is that he is responsible for managing Talona's church in Amn to ensure that it does not spread the plague, and is especially prohibited from attacking nobles and wealthy businessmen in the ruling class.

The third item is even simpler, which is to treat the senior members of the Six-member Council when they are poisoned or sick.

You must know that in Faerûn, not all toxins and diseases can be treated with the two magical spells of [Neutralize Poison] and [Remove Disease].

Some special toxins and diseases usually require the use of rare and rare materials to make corresponding antidotes.

Many people died before the antidote could even be prepared.

But now that we have the chosen ones of the goddess of poison and disease, there is no need to be so troublesome.

It can be said that the only troublesome one of these conditions is the second one.

After much hesitation, Zuo Si chose to sign his name at the bottom of the agreement and then handed the parchment to the other party.

"Now please tell me, where do you want me to build the mage tower? Don't say it is in the cemetery area. Although I am personally good at necromancy magic, I don't want my neighbors to be a group of dead people."

Hearing this semi-ridiculous remark, Zeranora couldn't help but laugh, and then replied in the same humorous language: "Don't worry, the location we allocated for you is still a little far away from the cemetery area.
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To be precise, it is at the junction of the Cemetery District, the Slum District, the Bridge District and the City Gate District.

You can use the abundant negative energy in the cemetery area to conduct research on necromancy, and you can also occasionally go to the Copper Crown Inn in the slums for a drink.

And it is very convenient to travel by water or land.

So, are you satisfied with this arrangement?"

Zuo Si nodded with satisfaction: "It sounds pretty good. When can I start work?"

"After you take care of Talona Church in the city, I will send someone to deliver the land deed and the permission to build the mage tower, and then the construction can officially start." Zeranora said meaningfully.

"Okay, I get it."

Zuo Si sighed slightly and quickly ended the negotiation.

After watching the moon elf leave, he immediately turned around and said to Bernard: "You start recruiting people now. I need a sufficient number of skilled craftsmen to ensure that the project can be completed in the shortest time after obtaining the land deed."<

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Bernard assured confidently: "No problem. The masons' guild of Ascaltra has sufficient manpower, and there will be no shortage even if they recruit a hundred masons at once.

As for ordinary workers, I can transfer some tenant farmers from the manor.

It's the slack season now, and as long as food, accommodation and a small salary are included, they will be very happy to come to the city to earn some extra money.

But I can’t do anything about the magic part.”

"I will solve the magic part myself. You only need to build the foundation and the outer tower first. This is the design drawing. When you give it to the masons, they will understand it."

After that, Zuo Si took out the drawings he had made these days and stuffed them to the businessman.

It can be seen that he was in a good mood after receiving the construction permit for the Mage Tower. Even though he was about to meet with the local priest of Talona Church, he did not put on a sad face.

Bernard didn't waste any time and immediately left home with the drawings in hand and started working on building this tower that might cost hundreds of thousands of gold coins or more.

Because he understands that this mage tower is of great significance to him and even his family.

When Zuo Si settled down, the young and ambitious businessman had a backing he could rely on.

No matter who wants to take advantage of the Roldan Chamber of Commerce, they need to consider revenge from a powerful mage and the chosen one of the goddess of poison and plague.

In the future, maybe you can rely on the good cooperative relationship between the two to send your children here to learn magic, and then contribute to the development and growth of the family and the chamber of commerce.

Zuo Si didn't care at all about Bernard's thoughts.

Because he has to solve a problem that he is not willing to face, that is, dealing with the goddess's notorious church.

Arriving at the temple area next to the administrative area, Zuo Si immediately saw the Talona Temple, which had just laid its foundation and was being built slowly.

With the sponsorship of several wealthy businessmen and nobles, as well as the recent surge in donations from believers, the church has obviously collected enough money and plans to completely take root in the land of Amn.

However, there are also nearby temples of Lathander, the Lord of the Dawn, the Church of the Guardian God Heim, and the Knights of the Burning Heart, which are composed of paladins. The attitude towards the Church of the Goddess of Poison and Disease is obviously not friendly at all.

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If it weren't for the laws of Amn that stipulate that any god has the right to preach here, they would probably rush forward and drive away these bastards who spread the plague or kill them on the spot.

Some priests and paladins even continued to loudly preach Talona's "misdeeds" to the workers who were hired to work, hoping to make them repent and give up building temples for this evil goddess.

Unfortunately, this rhetoric may have some effect in other cities.

But in the profit-seeking "gold coin capital" of Ascatra, the workers didn't even pay attention to it and just kept working hard.

Because the pastors of Talona Church knew how bad their reputation was, they offered double salaries to those who were willing to work.

Unless the other party can offer a higher price, it is impossible to have the slightest impact on these "beating workers" by just talking.

But the problem is that people from the lawful good and lawful neutral camps will definitely not do things like malicious bidding that breaks market rules.

Therefore, the entire construction site looks like a large-scale comedy scene, which is quite interesting.

"Master, do we really want to go there at this time?" Davian asked with a solemn expression.

After all, looking at the posture, basically all the good and neutral divine churches in the entire temple area are here.

Even the churches of evil gods such as Talos, the Storm God, and Embry, the Ocean Goddess, sent people to stand aside and watch the fun.

"If it passes now, I'm afraid it will become the target of public criticism."

Half-orc Rhett also muttered in a low voice.

Unless they are insane lunatics, no one can remain calm in the face of so many divine churches.

"You guys wait here, I can go there alone."

Zuo Si was obviously mentally prepared for this situation.

This is why he has always refused to have contact with these guys.

To be honest, before Cyric went crazy, if we had to choose one among all the gods in Faerûn as the most hated by mortals, Talona, ​​the goddess of poison and plague, would definitely be at the top of the list.<

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After all, spreading the plague indiscriminately is so hateful.

If it weren't for the fear of angering this terrible evil goddess, it wouldn't be worth the fuss even if those priests were caught and burned alive.

When Zuo Si squeezed through the crowd of onlookers and took off his hood to reveal a childish face, the originally lively scene suddenly fell into silence.

It's as if someone pressed the mute button.

Regardless of whether it was the Good God Priest who was using "Mouth Escape" or the members of the Evil God Church, they all fell silent.

Because compared to civilians who have no stable source of information, they have already learned through various methods that Talona personally descended into the avatar and selected a mortal as her elect.

In addition, Zuo Si was quite conspicuous in both appearance and appearance, so he was recognized almost immediately.

"Praise the great goddess! The only chosen one appointed by Talona, ​​the son of the plague, the destroyer from another world, you are finally willing to come to see us."

An old woman who looked to be in her fifties hurried forward and led all the pastors and believers present to kneel on the ground, her voice filled with unparalleled excitement and excitement.

Although the goddess of poison and disease's own alignment is chaotic evil, her church is not at all as chaotic as Cyric, and has a very strict organization and hierarchy.

As a voter, Zuo Si is undoubtedly the existence of "one god below ten thousand people" in this system.

Even those hostile good priests chose to remain silent at this moment.

At this time, if anyone takes the initiative to find fault without opening his eyes, it is basically equivalent to insulting and blaspheming.

According to the laws of Amn, he can be killed on the spot.

"Are you the highest-ranking person in the Amn Church?" Zuo Si asked bluntly.

The old woman nodded quickly: "Yes, Your Excellency, the elector. My name is Yvette, and I am the presiding priest of the church in this country. Before you appeared, we had been operating in a low-key manner and did not dare to preach in public at all, let alone

A magnificent temple has been built for the goddess. The church’s current momentum is all due to you.”

"I need to talk to you alone."

Zuo Si looked into the other person's eyes and said in an almost commanding tone.
To be continued...