With Sarevok's death in battle, a large number of Baldur's Gate troops began to surrender to Zhentil Keep. This war to determine the ownership of a large area of ​​land north of Amn and south of the Wandering River finally came to an end.
Fuzor Chamberry succeeded in winning the final victory at the cost of nearly 7,500 people, most of whom were goblin cannon fodder.
Now, Baldur's Gate, the jewel of the Sword Coast, is like a naked and defenseless girl, waiting for him to conquer and ravage.
But before that, the "Tyrant of the Moon Sea" still has one thing to do, which is to kill all Sarevok's followers, as well as those forces that have had in-depth cooperation with him, such as those headquartered in Cloak Forest.
The Shadow Druid sect in the depths, and the bandits who want to escape into the Sharptooth Forest.
In short, when it comes to eradicating the roots, the church of Bane, the god of tyranny, can be said to be very familiar with it, and it does not give these guys any chance to breathe.
They immediately separated out one or two thousand-man teams, and using the information tortured from the prisoners' mouths, they quickly and mercilessly slaughtered and raided several areas.
Before leaving, he did not forget to set a fire near the camp where the other party lived, directly igniting the nearby weeds, trees and forests to ensure that even if a few lucky people escaped occasionally, they would be swept away by the fire and thick smoke.
Turned into a charred corpse.
Obviously, neither Zuo Si nor Fuzoul Chamberry have any respect for nature, let alone the impact that inaccessible forest fires will have on the environment and climate.
To be precise, most of the land in Faerûn is in a primitive and undeveloped state. The area occupied by cities, villages and cultivated land is very limited, which is not enough to cause any damage to the ecological balance.
Quite the opposite!
Monsters, animals, and barbarians in the wilderness world often pose a huge threat to towns and villages.
So Zuo Si allowed the fire to burn for three days and three nights, and then used the power of magic to change the weather and create a heavy rainstorm, extinguishing the two forest fires that had spread.
By the time the blazing flames were completely extinguished, Zhentil Keep's army had already entered Baldur's Gate and captured the city built by the legendary pirate Baldur.
After occupying the city, the first thing Fuzoul Chamberlain did was to purge the upper ruling class.
Including several chambers of commerce alliances controlled by shapeshifters, forces attached to the dukes, and the branch of the Shadow Thieves of Amn in this city, none of them escaped.
Based on the principle of preferring to kill a thousand by mistake rather than letting one go, this purge almost caused the collapse of the original ruling system in the city.
The powerful wealthy business class was uprooted almost overnight.
Under the iron fist of tyranny, any resistance is futile.
Fuzor Chamberry almost plundered all the wealth accumulated by these merchants and powerful people for generations, and then demoted the entire family into slaves, packed and transported them to Ximen Port on the easternmost coast of the Dragon Coast, and sent them back to Zhentil Fort by water.
Slave market trading.
Facts have once again proven that when dealing with capital and vested interest groups, nothing is more effective than naked and undisguised threats of violence and death.
In this way, the Tyrant of the Moon Sea not only gained astonishing wealth, enough to repair the Zhentil Castle that was severely damaged in the war, and even launched several more wars of external expansion, but also allowed Ban, the god of tyranny, to
En’s church has completely taken root in this land.
The most important thing is that through a series of military conquests, he not only made himself famous, but also trained a group of powerful soldiers with high morale.
Later, as long as two or three thousand of the most elite ones are transferred and sent back to Zhentil Castle as a supplement, then Zhentil Castle will have a fully armed army of 6,000 people, enough to start a campaign to conquer the entire Moon Sea.
War.
There is no doubt that this is the real intention that Fuzuoer Chamberry wants to achieve when he agrees to cooperate with Zuo Si.
He wants to make his title of "Tyrant of the Moon Sea" worthy of the name.
By cleaning up the original ruling class and taking away their wealth along the way, Zhentil Castle not only made up for its previous losses, but also gained sufficient financial resources and resources.
In particular, the confiscation of ships in several ports such as Ximen, Tesil, Pros, and Irip gave Fuzoul Chambery a powerful fleet that can deliver troops to the sea through the Sea of ​​Moon and the Sea of ​​Fallen Stars.
Any coastal or even riverside city.
If this terrifying deterrent is used properly, it can even force those cities to sign an agreement with him to establish local temples and churches of the God of Tyranny, making the entire city succumb to the will of Bane, the great God of Tyranny.<
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So after completing the set goal of occupying Baldur's Gate, he began to shift the focus of his work to how to transport the plundered wealth back faster and faster.
In just a few days, all the special river transport ships in Baldur's Gate were mobilized, loaded with all kinds of food, gold, silver, jewelry, weapons and equipment and slowly transported along the Chongsa River to Dongxing City, where they were then exchanged.
Get on the carriage and transport it to the port on the Dragon Coast.
Although the local residents are extremely angry at such blatant and unabashed plunder, they still dare not speak out.
After all, Zhentil Castle has tens of thousands of troops, and almost every city has hundreds to thousands of troops stationed there, as well as servants recruited from the local area. Ordinary people want to start a riot to drive away the invasion.
It is basically no different from committing suicide.
Belgost's Lathander Temple once tried to resist, but was surrounded and suppressed by a dozen Dark Guards and even the temple was destroyed.
More than thirty young paladins and priests fell into darkness after the incident and chose to join the church of Bane, the god of tyranny.
Because they feel that since the Lord of the Dawn has called on believers to resist, he should also descend incarnations to help them when they fall into despair, just like he did with Sammaster, the founder of the Dragon Worship Cult.
But the result was that no matter how heavy the casualties were, until the entire army was finally wiped out, Lathander did not surrender.
Therefore, under extreme disappointment, these young people who were originally easily affected by emotions and impulses spurned the gods they believed in in the past and turned to the hostile Ben to vent the hatred and anger in their hearts.
But what they don't know is that it's not that the Lord of the Dawn has not descended into an incarnation, but that he was targeted and intercepted by the God of Tyranny.
When two powerful divine powers appear to check and balance each other, whoever has a stronger church power in the mortal world and a more powerful electorate will be able to win the battle.
Obviously, Lathander does not have any electors who can compete with Zuo Si and Fuzor Chambery, so naturally he cannot really help the believers in the Belgost Temple.
They could only watch helplessly as their entire army was annihilated, and countless believers abandoned their faith and defected to the enemy's camp.
There is no doubt that this is the negative effect of frequently responding to believers' prayers and sending down incarnations.
As the representative of the gods who "comes to him when something happens", the Lord of the Morning can be said to be one of the gods who most frequently descends into incarnations.
Although this has accumulated a huge reputation and influence for him among most kind-hearted civilians, he has also been burdened with heavy yoke for this.
Because once you do something like saving people and fighting evil, you have to keep doing it.
Otherwise, it will involve the issue of "differential treatment" that can easily cause conflicts and resentment.
After all, as a lawful and good god, the most important thing is to treat believers equally and fairly.
If you save this one today, you won’t save the other one tomorrow.
What would those who were not rescued think?
Am I not as important as the other person in God’s mind, and am I more favored by God without the other person?
People do not suffer from scarcity but from inequality.
Under such a huge psychological gap, it is easy to produce emotions such as imbalance, disappointment, and resentment.
Coupled with the drive of survival instinct, falling into evil has naturally become a very normal phenomenon.
Fuzor Chambery took advantage of this and continued to absorb paladins and priests from the lawful good camp along the way. Now he has expanded the size of the church several times.
Even the ruler of Eltoril City, Delt, who has the LV17 paladin level, has been transformed into a powerful dark guard. Now the orthodox army is patrolling along the Chongsa River to ensure that there are no bandits and
Monsters dare to attack those transport ships.
With the Church of Lathander having learned from the past, the remaining people will seriously consider the consequences even if they want to resist.
Of course, what's more important is that all the people and forces in the west of Faerun are now focusing on three places.
They are Waterdeep City to the north of Baldur's Gate, the Kingdom of Cormyr across the Dragon Coast, and Amn to the south of Baldur's Gate. We expect these three to have strong military strength and influence in the region.
political entities will take action.
Whether it is King Asan IV who is ambitious and wants to make great achievements, or the masked lords who have two electors of the Magic Goddess sitting in charge, or Zuo Si who has deposed the six-member Council and becomes the de facto master of Amn, there is enough.
Strength and Motives Send troops to drive out Zhentil Hold's forces.
Because of this, most civilians feel that they should be able to endure it for a while longer.
After all, Zhentil Castle's evil army is currently targeting nobles and wealthy businessmen, and it has nothing to do with him.
……
At this moment, in the lords' meeting hall in Waterdeep City, the only public lord, Piergalen, was sitting in his own seat, holding a piece of information that had just been sent by a secret agent in his hand, speaking in a tone full of tension and anxiety.
Said: "I believe you all now know how bad the situation in the south is.
The electorate of Bane, the god of tyranny—Fozor Chamberry has completely taken over Baldur's Gate.
Not only that, he also uprooted the Temple of the Lord of the Dawn in the town of Belgost and completely razed it to the ground.
In addition, Sarevok, the newly appointed Duke of Baldur's Gate, has been confirmed to be the descendant of Baal, the God of Murder.
The mysterious deaths of several other dukes and their families were almost all planned by him.
To be continued...