There is no doubt that Sancho's appearance made Zuo Si keenly aware that in this fight for the throne of Baal, the god of murder, he was not the only one who wanted to intervene and gain something from it.
Instead, there may be other gods or quasi-divine powers.
After all, in the original plot, the sons of Baal fought and killed each other, and even started wars that spread to surrounding areas. The reason why no gods or other forces intervened was mainly because they were afraid of Cyric's power.
When Aberdare was adventuring around the Sword Coast, the Prince of Lies happened to be in a state of madness.
The gods are busy cleaning up the mess caused by this guy, so naturally they are not in the mood to pay attention to the "little commotion" caused by a group of sons of gods in the material world.
Later, when Cyric regained consciousness, he discovered that the Sons of Baal's chicken-eating contest had entered the final stage.
In addition, when he fell into madness, he almost offended all the gods in the world of Toril, so he did not dare to intervene easily, otherwise he would definitely be beaten by a group.
So, I could only watch it all come to an end.
In the end, a war for the inheritance of the Blood Throne miraculously ended without the intervention of too powerful external forces.
Although the Zhentarim, the Harpers Alliance and some other organizations more or less want to use the Sons of Baal to achieve their own ulterior purposes.
But compared with the powerful gods who have decisive power, they are basically just soy sauce.
Especially in the later stages of development, the divinity and power of the most powerful Sons of Baal have accumulated to an astonishing degree.
Even if a legendary spellcaster and elector like Elminster takes action, there is no guarantee that he will win 100%.
But now, as the Prince of Lies Cyric has been pulled down from the throne of powerful divine power by Zuo Si's series of operations, he has now fallen to a weak divine power.
After a while, he might even be reduced to a demigod with weak divine power.
Therefore, he no longer has any deterrent effect.
This also means that any god who has thoughts about Baal may choose to intervene or intervene.
For example, the beast god Mara, or the goddess of night Shar who always hides in the dark to do things, or the god of thieves Musk who is very interested in killing and the priesthood of death.
In short, there are quite a few gods who have reasons and motivations to participate.
In addition, there is a high probability that the gods of the good camp will do something to ensure that Baal, who is bloodthirsty, cruel and keen on killing, will not be resurrected like Bane, the god of tyranny.
It would be better if we could find a less evil heir to the vacant Blood Throne.
Zuo Si even seriously suspected that many gods had already selected agents among the Sons of Baal, and planned to intervene decisively when needed.
So now he also needs to train his own agents.
Sancho is obviously a good candidate.
In addition, Imoen, who is ignorant and has not yet awakened, is also a potential choice.
Zuo Si believed that with the current relationship between the two of them, as long as he asked, Aimeng would definitely agree without hesitation due to his character.
As for Aberdare, whose brain may not be as big as a walnut but is filled with lust, greed for money and bloodthirsty impulses, he had no intention of cooperating with him from the beginning to the end.
At best, it can be used as a chess piece.
In this way, in the following time, Zuo Si began to gradually control the authority of the entire Askatra, recruit and train the army, and replace those who had been completely corrupted with soldiers wearing fully enclosed helmets with shiny oil mobile terminals.
Law enforcers have brought unprecedented order and fairness to this city.
Even the prosecutors and judges who had countless interests behind them were all kicked out and replaced by a group of professional bureaucrats transferred from Luskan.
Although many big families and chambers of commerce feel very uncomfortable with being unable to achieve their ulterior motives through bribery.
But under the strong suppression of the Council headed by Vera, they were finally forced to accept such changes.
After all, everyone cannot bribe, and everyone can bribe. There is not much difference in essence.
You must know that bribery and money-power transactions also require huge costs.
And when one person starts to play like this, others will follow suit, eventually forming a terrible chain of suspicion.
Everyone will be afraid that the other party will use the political resources at hand to suppress them, so they can only continue to invest more money to increase political influence for checks and balances.
Now this viciously competitive game has been banned from its roots.
Businessmen and nobles can save the money they used to pay bribes as profits, or invest it in publicity, expanding production scale and improving product quality, so as to maintain their strong competitiveness.
Not only that!
Zuo Si began to carry out drastic reforms in Amn's laws, government structure and social form, strengthening centralization, weakening the power of families in major cities, and forcing them to hand over their hands to seize political and military power in exchange for not being liquidated in the future.<
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He even issued a stern warning to the Shadow Thieves Guild, which was engaged in internal strife, requiring Renault Bloodhead and Maiwa not to affect the lives of ordinary citizens, otherwise they would personally crush them like bugs.
Anyone who is not blind can feel that this business empire ruled by a few oligarchs is changing at an unimaginable speed.
The power of major families and chambers of commerce is gradually declining, replaced by an efficient, clean, powerful, and unified government.
Since there are hundreds of social science experts from the Magic Earth in the Floating City behind him to provide plans and reference opinions, what Zuo Si did was not a nonsense that was taken for granted and divorced from reality.
On the contrary, every step he takes is supported by a large amount of feedback data.
The person responsible for collecting data is none other than the Masked Mage Guild, which has been actually annexed and controlled.
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These guys built a huge magic perception barrier covering the entire Askatra a long time ago, and it doesn't take much effort at all to do this kind of work.
Coupled with Zuo Si's own illustrious reputation, anyone who knows the inside story will not be stupid enough to jump out and object.
Even if there are one or two blind idiots, they will soon be tortured in various ways until their families are destroyed, their wives and children are separated.
After all, if these nobles and businessmen are seriously investigated, none of them will have clean butts.
Therefore, even if you only use judicial means within the rules, you can easily make the opponent worse than death.
Now, the people of Askatra and even the entire Amn are concerned about one thing, that is, when Zuo Si will announce the abolition of the Parliament and formally ascend the throne and proclaim himself emperor, transforming himself into the supreme master of this country.
There are so many clear and unambiguous political signals that even the most obtuse person knows what will happen next.
However, unlike the nervous reaction of the upper class, the common people at the bottom obviously welcome this, and it can even be said that they are looking forward to it.
Especially Zuo Si's series of actions after taking power, they are the most direct beneficiaries.
Moreover, in Faerûn, a dangerous place, a powerful ruler can frighten the enemy to the greatest extent and bring long-term peace and stability to the country.
In this regard, Alustriel of Silvermoon City and Silvermoon Alliance is a living example.
However, Zuo Si is obviously not in a hurry and is still advancing his plan in an orderly manner. He will also take time to check Sancho's learning progress every few days and teach the boy how to correctly activate and use the divine power in his body, instead of just treating it as a kind of thing.
Spell abilities.
You don't need to ask to know that he is waiting for news about Baldur's Gate and Sarevok's actions.
But the calm before the storm was soon broken by a piece of bombshell news.
Fuzor Chamberry and the Zhentil Castle army led by him marched forward with great success. Many towns along the way even looked down upon the wind. They pushed through the green fields effortlessly, but they suffered a defeat on the other side of the Chongsa River.
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The city of caravans - Snubel and the city of order - Eltoril are united.
The ruler of the former, the Red Shield Chamber of Commerce, spent a lot of money to hire adventurers and mercenaries, while the leader of the latter, Delt, provided hundreds of rigorously trained knights.
They ambush in the bushes on the north bank of the river in advance, waiting for Zhentil Castle's army to try to cross the river before launching a sudden attack, causing unimaginable damage in an instant.
Those troops that had just landed ashore and had not yet established a foothold were overwhelmed by Eltoril's "Hell Knights" in just a few minutes.
Delt, who had a paladin professional level of LV17, took the lead and rushed to the front, killing several dark guards of the Bann Church who were responsible for commanding the army.
The church of Helm, the God of Guard, also gave its full support to this operation.
You were prepared to fight but you were not prepared, and you attacked halfway. The result is one can imagine.
After the landing force was completely scattered, killed and fled in all directions, the mercenaries and adventurers armed with hard bows and crossbows quickly occupied the river bank and began to launch a frantic attack on the enemies who were crossing the river on small rafts on the water.
Some mages and warlocks unceremoniously throw out large-scale destruction and control spells such as fireball, lightning, stinky cloud, greasy, and spider web.
After a while, countless corpses were floating on the water.
Some of them were killed on the spot, but many more fell from the rafts and were swallowed up by the rapid water and drowned alive.
Especially those unlucky ones wearing heavy armor will sink in minutes without even a chance to show off their swimming skills once they fall into the water.
Then three metal dragons appeared from nowhere and joined the massacre, causing chaos to spread rapidly and eventually forming a great rout.
By the time Fuzoul Chanberry, who was still marching in the rear, arrived, his monster army had already lost five thousand people.
To be continued...