Ordinary fantasy adventure in Faerûn

Chapter 397: Three-person Council
"God of heaven, Tom! Could such a terrible incident have happened in Baldur's Gate?!"

Priest Lucius watched the entire interrogation process from the side. Although he did not know what would happen to the Supreme God in the future because he did not know the future course of events, the mere appearance of the legendary ancient Nestheril artifact was shocking enough, not to mention that the artifact was controlled by the Chosen of the Three Gods of Death.

"The Chosen of the Three Gods of Death have actually united! Moreover, they also want to use the artifact to control the brain of the Illithids and use it to directly raise an army of Mind Flayers! I must report this matter to the other acting city lords immediately!"

The city lord system of Eltoril is very unique. Each city lord is selected and elected by the citizens. However, the previous city lord, Tavis Craig, betrayed them. The impact of this incident was very bad. People can no longer trust the city lord as before.

The highest power belongs to one person, which means that no one can restrict any action of the city lord. Tavisk Reg once almost killed all of them. This incident was enough to sound the alarm for all of them, so in the past ten days, the House of Representatives has tried more than once to calm the people's panic about this aspect.

Finally, with the help of Duke Ravengard, the House of Representatives in Eltoril decided to implement a four-member council system similar to that in Baldur's Gate. In order to avoid the occurrence of centralization incidents to the greatest extent, the House of Representatives made some improvements to this system.

They nominated one person each from the nobles, the temples and the common people, and formed a three-person council city lord system based on these three people.

The above three people represent three groups in the city respectively. Such a division will ensure fairness to the greatest extent, and power will be divided to a great extent. In order to prevent disagreements among the three people that would lead to the inability to implement government orders, they established a system called the High Archon.

The High Archon will be selected in turn from among the above three people. The current tentative plan is to rotate among the three every five years. Through this method of rotating in power, they will ensure the purity of the highest level to the greatest extent and minimize the possibility of this incident happening again.

High Priest Lucient is the representative of the temple elected by everyone. In addition to him, there is Marquis Fernando as the representative of the nobility, and Alistair Lucient, a holy knight who believes in Tom, as the representative of the civilians.

In fact, in the matter of selecting civilian representatives, the House of Representatives once nominated Scar Chitrugu because he performed very well in this incident. Not only did he fight bravely in the final battle, but he also returned the personal weapons of the Supreme Judges of all generations after the city was rescued, as well as the symbol of power of the entire Eltoril [Record of Light]. He also captured the former city lord who had fallen into the evil demon together with Noshir.

In terms of achievements, he was fully worthy of this position, and he himself was a paladin with firm beliefs and an experienced hell rider. In the eyes of those who knew him well, Scar was a model of knight. It could be said that he only needed to nod to reap unparalleled glory and power, but Scar gave it up on his own initiative.

When people asked him why, Scar just evaded the question by saying that even though his family had fallen into decline, it could not be denied that he was indeed a noble, and that a noble could not represent the common people.

The House of Representatives expressed its incomprehension of this reason, but it was barely convincing, so they did not continue to force him to hold the position.

This allowed Scar to successfully use his identity to decline the honor, but Noshir knew that this reason was just an excuse. The fundamental reason he refused the honor was actually just to continue following him.

The return of the city was a matter of no regrets for him. In the days ahead, he only wanted to uphold the oath he had made to Noshir. "Then I will go and inform Duke Ravengard that the conspiracy involved in this matter is very serious. If the followers of the Three Gods of Death really carry out this plan, Baldur's Gate will probably be the first to bear the brunt. They must know this so that they can take precautions."

Noshir nodded to the high priest and immediately took action.

He will face a tough battle next. Not only will he have to face the assassins under Evil Thought, but he will also have to face the undead army of Catheric Thom, and even the Mastermind and his community of mind flayers.

All three of them are troublesome and ruthless characters. Xie Nian may be the most deadly assassin in the world. Even if I am now, I may be ambushed by him if I am not careful.

Even though I killed Olin so easily this time, it was entirely because I took advantage of a surprise counterattack and I controlled his body when he was caught off guard, which was why he died so quickly and cleanly.

But if he hadn't seized the flaw in Olin's first attack and allowed her to take advantage of her agility, it wouldn't have been easy for him to keep her. And if he really let her run away, he probably wouldn't even be able to sleep peacefully in the future.

Olin alone is already so troublesome. As a pure-blooded descendant of Baal, his evil thoughts are definitely more difficult to deal with than her.

The same is true for Kesrick Som. As the chosen one of the God of the Dead, Kesrick's combat power is very strong. In a head-on combat, he is probably the strongest among the three chosen ones of the God of Death.

This guy had somehow connected himself to a true, immortal descendant of God, making himself impossible to be killed by conventional means.

Unless he could rescue or kill the direct descendant of the moon goddess Selune, no matter how severe the injury was, it would be nothing more than a breeze on his face and would be completely healed in just a few breaths.

That guy is a truly immortal monster. In addition to the two of them, the main brain that may be controlled by evil thoughts is also a deadly threat that must be guarded against.

Even before being strengthened by Netheril magic, the Mastermind is already one of the most dangerous creatures in the world. Every Mastermind possesses an absolutely selfish spirit. All Masterminds believe that they and their desires are the most important things in the entire multiverse, and other mind flayers are merely their brothers and sisters, used as pawns to realize their ambitions.

A mature main brain that has experienced a relatively long period of time can pose a threat to others at the same level as an ancient dragon, or even more dangerous than an ancient dragon.

(End of this chapter)