Talon City quickly returned to calm after a night of riots.
However, compared to the past, this city had a slightly different atmosphere. The originally lazy guards were nowhere to be seen. Many of the nobles' mansions had been raided. There were many new faces on the streets and city walls. The city guards also had an obvious murderous aura!
With the support of Mordor City, the half-elf noble Trano quickly gained a foothold in Talon City. This was a very smart half-elf. In order to prove his value to Mordor City, he was very straightforward and ruthless. He killed more than 30% of the nobles in Talon City. But this was nothing. After sitting on the throne of the city lord, he quickly condemned the other nobles, but they did not have to be exterminated. Instead, they had to take out a sum of money to atone for their sins. After the bloody lesson in front of them, the other nobles spent money to avoid disaster. Trano swept up millions of Kindler's wealth in one fell swoop, and more than 70% of it was sent to Mordor City.
There was no doubt about it!
Trano was a very smart guy. His actions quickly gained the support of the upper and lower classes of Mordor City. The officials of Mordor City even proposed to find a way to let him inherit the title of the count.
After a night of riots subsided.
In the temple area of Talon City, there was a new temple to serve Søren, and in the central square of Mordor City, an area behind the original temple was also divided, and a new temple was built.
This was the temple to serve the Goddess of Torture – Laurita.
As Søren's subordinate god, within the range of the giant temple that Søren was building, there must be an empty temple for all his subordinate gods.
Similarly, some of the followers of Lauvita, the Goddess of Torture, were also incorporated into the Inquisition and Adjudication Department of the Church of Sauron. Lauvita's followers were good at torture and interrogation. Such a god was very useful. A ruthless god would inevitably have a group of ruthless fanatics, and these people could help Sauron deal with many dark side things that could not be seen.
According to the contract of the gods.
As Søren's subordinate god, Laurita had the right to accept believers within the scope of Søren's faith, but including her church and herself, they had to listen to Søren's orders when necessary. At the same time, when Søren's church held a large-scale ceremony, Laurita also had the right to share the faith. That was to say, such a ceremony must also worship her, but the standard was far lower than Søren's. Similarly, if Laurita, the Goddess of Torture, wanted to hold a ceremony, then Søren's position must be in it. Her believers must pay respect to Søren before praying. Talon City was still the core area where the Goddess of Torture's faith spread. However, the scope of the two gods' faith had merged. This was the embryonic form of a divine system. In the future, as the divine system expanded, there would be many things to add, including large-scale rituals for the entire divine system.
There was no doubt!
After killing the Goddess of Poison and subduing the Goddess of Torture, Soran was recognized by the gods as a member of the [Dark Pantheon].
The original Dark Pantheon was the Three Gods of Death.
Søren was now a new member of the Three Gods of Death in the eyes of the gods. But unlike the Three Gods of Death in the past, after killing the Goddess of Poison, the first thing that Søren received was the congratulations and gifts from the Goddess of Agriculture.
This was surprising.
After Søren killed the Goddess of Poison, the Church of the Goddess of Agriculture actually sent a generous gift to Mordor City.
A new batch of improved seeds, including wheat, barley, potatoes, corn, and other crops, and a new irrigation method recently developed by the Church of Agriculture.
This was a well-known point.
The Goddess of Earth hated the Goddess of Poison, and the Goddess of Agriculture also hated the Goddess of Poison. On the day that the Goddess of Poison, Talona, came to the mortal world, she spread a terrible plague. Not only did it kill many living creatures, but even a large forest was destroyed because of the plague.
The Goddess of Poison had many enemies.
Although Søren was a god of the evil alignment, after killing Talona, he seemed to have gained a lot of goodwill.
However.
It was also because he subdued the Goddess of Torture, Lauvita, that Søren was officially regarded as one of the Dark Pantheon. Many gods of the good alignment were very wary of him.
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Talon City returned to peace in just three days.
With the influence of Mordor City on the city, many changes soon took place here.
The most obvious one was the salted fish!
This was not a joke. In just a few days, Talon City became the largest salted fish market in the central region of the continent. Because of the Avatar Crisis, the food and materials in the entire continent became tense. After Mordor City secretly gained control of Talon City, the first thing that the officials in the City Hall thought of was to use this place to dump the salted fish that Mordor City pushed into a mountain.
The fish in Mordor City was incredibly rich!
To exaggerate, the price of vegetables in Mordor City was about twice that of salted fish. One could imagine how much salted fish had accumulated in Mordor City.
The dumping of materials quickly affected Talon City.
Expensive fish were not very popular. Tuna, sturgeon, eels, and so on were mainly sold in other areas. Mordor City, near Talon City, was dumping salted sharks and whales. The weight of these large fish was very amazing because salt was not a problem in the coastal areas. The salted fish sold in Mordor City was only about 1.5 times the price of food. It was almost sold according to the price of salt in the past. This caused the lower class poor to rush to buy it from the beginning. Almost all the civilians in Talon City did not have to worry about not having salt and fish to eat in the next year. The cunning businessmen also quickly realized the business opportunity. They bought salted fish from Talon City and then dumped it in other places. This was actually equivalent to selling salt. The alchemy technology of Mordor City had allowed the production of salt to increase sharply. In order to exchange it for wealth as soon as possible, Søren almost sold and gave away the rich fish.
In the mainland, most of the salt was produced by salt mines. Søren's plan was to use this as a source of wealth and consume the mountains of fish.
There was no other way.
There were too many fish in the outer islands. It was too easy to hunt a few whales and sharks near Mordor Island.
This kind of half-selling and half-giving trade quickly increased the reputation of Mordor City in Talon City. After the civilians here had a lot of influence on Mordor City, Søren immediately began the next part of his plan.
That was the population.
Civilians, craftsmen, farmers, and so on. Mordor City needed a large number of foreign people to build. The Avatar Crisis caused a shortage of materials, and many refugees had been displaced. What Mordor City needed to do now was to absorb people from them, and then transport these people to the port of Mordor through airships, and send them to the 12 rapidly expanding towns.
According to Søren's calculations.
If he wanted to fill these 12 large towns, according to the population of each large town of about 10,000, Søren currently had a gap of at least 80,000 people!
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