Surviving the Fourth Calamity

Chapter 701 What Kelben thinks is 'both losers'

Contrary to what Hill thought, Neverwinter City can actually sit still at the moment.

It may be difficult for Hill to understand the logic of this world, but the people of Neverwinter understand it very well.

In the hearts of most people in Neverwinter, these elves would never choose to face Luskan and the half-orcs on the roof of the world.

Neverwinter was a city rebuilt on the ruins by relying on iron and fire, but the elf was the former owner who easily gave up the territory because of too much damage.

Compared with human beings, elves are indeed stronger on a single body.

However, in terms of fighting, Neverwinter is much stronger than them.

In other words, in the eyes of the elves, nothing is as important as the lives of their clansmen, but in the eyes of humans, a place where future generations can live and live is worth their lives.

The elves are actually quite brave when they fight, but they will measure the gains and losses after the battle.

If necessary, it is not impossible for them to risk the lives of the whole family, but it will definitely not include guarding the northern gate for all races.

Not to mention that when they suffered heavy losses, the human race quietly became strong enough to compete with them for the supremacy of the mainland.

So the elves all evacuated when they realized that the gains outweighed the losses.Now it is impossible to be willing to help humans guard the half-orcs going south.

But they will definitely support the current rule of Neverwinter, and the elves are better at this point, they will recognize the contributions made by others.

Although I am unwilling to contribute to other races, I will never think that those who stand on the front line and choose to resist are fools.

In the hearts of the higher-ups of Neverwinter City, if these elves who prefer the light to the heavy are really interested in a nearby city, it must be Waterdeep City.

Moreover, the most important thing is that a large number of Trassil elves are still rummaging through boxes and boxes in Neverwinter, jumping up and down.

If the elves really planned to attack them, the elves from other worlds would have run away long ago.

Although the premise of the judgment was wrong, Neverwinter City was lucky to get the result right.

Waterdeep was different.

They were lucky enough to send the dreaded Outer Worlds away, but something more serious went wrong.

The undead executed a large number of gangsters, killers, thieves and robbers, and even killed the gang leaders who were directly in command.

They walked very freely, but left a huge power vacuum at the bottom.

And in order to fight for the lowest and most useful control right, Waterdeep City fell into an unspeakable dark moment.

In fact, everyone knows that oppressing civilians is the most profitable business.

Although neighbors are troublesome, most people still have luck.

Corellon shouldn't let someone toss Waterdeep twice, unless someone offends him again.

Now, no one would be so stupid. Even if Kelben wanted to do it again, the other lords of Waterdeep City would not follow him to death.

The most troublesome thing now is that they can recruit low-level thugs from the mainland of Faerun, but management is hard to find.

Don't look at the fact that the gang leaders are not on the stage, but they are either the ones they think they can absolutely suppress, or they are actually the most trusted people.

With the complexity of Waterdeep City, most people would choose the most trusted person to go out and do things if they didn't want to be wiped out directly.

But after all the secret and unknown subordinates were killed, these high-level people who have been in control of the black forces all year round can only go into the water by themselves.

Even for people who want to show face, the people sent to rebuild the gang can actually recognize whose subordinates at a glance.

The result of these people coming to the foreground naturally increased the intensity of the battle. Toril was used to sending his opponents directly to the world of the underworld.

The ubiquitous murder made many ordinary people in Waterdeep City feel uncomfortable even hiding at home.

The people in Waterdeep City used to only suspect that these gangsters were controlled by those seemingly glorious and beautiful figures, but now they can be directly convinced.

When the struggle is fierce to a certain extent, who would care about the underground rules that only maintain the struggle among the lower classes?

Every gentleman and aristocrat who died under assassination will be revealed the next day what kind of gang he is in charge of.

Those who actually occupy the land at the pier are fine. Although the attack is fierce, everyone knows that money in this place has never been easy to make. In the beginning, there will be gangsters to fight against those who say they are merchant ships, but they are not much different from pirates. guy.

But organizing gangs of thieves and human trafficking in the city... really broke the bottom line of tolerance for many people in Waterdeep City.

Of course, the people of Waterdeep City don't think there is any problem with such a thing. With so many evil forces taking turns in Faerun Continent, ordinary people have long adapted to these precarious lives.

But it can't, and it shouldn't be someone from the City Lord's Mansion.

The taxes in Waterdeep City are very high, and they have to endure extortion from the city guards. Most people regard these as protection money.

As a result, the people who collect protection fees are those who want to kill them.

Even during the time when Waterdeep City was under the control of gangsters, they were not so ruthless, as long as they paid money, they could still buy their lives.

Now the safest places in Waterdeep City are the magic tower of Kelben the Black Rod and the temple of the Silver Moon Goddess.

However, Su Lun, the High Priest of Waterdeep City, was notoriously arrogant and very rich.

Except for the believers and women who were taken into the shrine to hide, no one else, no matter what they paid, did not let her let go.

If it was in the past, there might still be fools putting pressure on her, but Su Lun...but just now her powerful divine power erupted, and the people of Deep Water City could see directly with their own eyes how brave she is.

So, now, all the pressure is on Kyle himself.

After all, if it wasn't for him, Corellon wouldn't have brought these strange elves.

Obviously, when Corellon was next to him, the high-level executives of Waterdeep City who chose the goddess of magic over him and the goddess of magic would never choose to offend Corellon again.

The Goddess of Magic has indeed had a profound influence on everyone, but Corellon doesn't need to do anything now. Those elves who are looking for a place to build a country will not let go of the fat of Waterdeep City.

Most of the dimensional gates through which magic ships pass through the ports outside Deepwater City were also created by elves thousands of years ago, and everyone knows this.

So compared to Neverwinter City, Waterdeep City is much more attractive.

No matter how proud the elves are, they still need money.

And most importantly, the believers of the Goddess of Magic finally found out that something was wrong. Before they knew it, they had somehow lost all their allies.

After the replay, even though many people understood that the problem was caused by the goddess of magic, who would complain about their main god?Of course, the anger was directed at Kelben, who tempted the goddess.

In the past, Kelben could still find a companion archmage who was willing to accompany him to dissipate his body and didn't care about the possibility of returning to the kingdom of God, but now there is no archmage who is willing to communicate with him.

Kelben, who wanted to become the next god of mages, suddenly betrayed his relatives, and he suddenly found that he seemed to be unable to support apprentices.

Those who followed him and left the Harpist couldn't be doing it for some belief. Even his loyal subordinates couldn't be treated worse than those who turned to him for money, right?
The intelligence organization he built is obviously a place where money is spent on work. If money is not enough, resources are not good, and beef and mutton can't afford it, the hearts of the people will naturally disperse.

Kelben does know that in recent years, the prices of various materials have risen rapidly, but he thinks that he has a lot of money, and even if he consumes a lot, it is impossible to directly empty the warehouse!

If it's really that powerful, shouldn't it be the civilians who collapse first?

That's because the common people only need to eat the cheapest fish, and most of them raise small poultry like chickens and ducks at home, and when they grow up, they sell them at high prices to rich people. it is good.

However, Kelben's subordinates don't have the habit of eating garbage, and it is even more impossible for them to put down their bodies to raise chickens and ducks. After all, they don't eat them.

The Black Tower and the various agencies under him, including the intelligence organization and the city guards, can feed ten giant dragons with the red meat they consume every day.

If Kelben is really that rich, he might as well raise dragons directly.

It's just that the money flowed out slowly. If there were not a large number of civilians who took refuge in him, Kelben took the initiative to calculate his own material money, and he would not find that he was about to go bankrupt.

He chose to be silent in the end, and did not become the savior of these people as planned at the beginning.

Kelben knew very well that these people who came to join him would never be willing to live on rotten fish and rotten shrimp like the people in the slums.

They still had certain illusions, hoping to live a good life here in Kelben.

Otherwise, people who really don't want to get involved at all should hire those Trasher elves who are eccentric but are indeed kind-hearted, just like those in the slums, and build some wooden sheds by the forest outside the city to deal with them. period of time.

According to Kelben's calculations at the beginning, these people should become the bottom members of his organization, slowly transform into his believers, and finally accumulate a strong foundation for his apotheosis.

But this first step was aborted.

Not all of his money will be put in the warehouse, but that part of the reserve fund can only be used to support these subordinates. No matter what, it is impossible for these people who come here to live the good life they imagined.

He can't give up the present for the unknown future!
Kelben stood on the tall Black Rod Tower and looked at the floating castle in the north. The prophecy he got at the beginning was indeed correct, and the archmage who had a good relationship with the elves would indeed bring him the greatest happiness. trouble.

But the prophecy was also wrong. Kelben estimated that if he hadn't calculated so much, the archmage would not have used such a lose-lose method to deal with him. If he had no money, the archmage would rely on selling strange The money for things can't afford to support that city at all.

It is estimated that you are living frugally now, right?
Kelben looked at the food on his table. He hadn't eaten something so bad for many years.

(End of this chapter)