Chapter 690 Searle

With the reopening of the Lost Land, Arkham immediately became the focal point of the entire Sword Coast and even the Northland. On the one hand, this city is indeed quite luxurious and majestic, even surpassing the capital of the entire Faerun World Kingdom. On the other hand, many churches have begun to build their own church forces in Arkham.

Of course, it is not surprising that such a thing would happen in general, but the problem is that there are a lot of temples in Arkham. It can be said that almost all the good and neutral camps of the gods have built their temples in Arkham. There are even rumors that in the dark corner of the underground of this city, there are also temples of evil gods such as Shar and Laovita.

This is a very unusual thing for a new territory, because generally speaking, there are rarely a large number of god churches that appear in a group, which naturally aroused the suspicion and attention of many forces.

Duanmu Huai certainly knew that the nature of these churches in Arkham is actually equivalent to embassies. So he also approved the land for them according to the applications of these churches, and the buildings on it were naturally built by the believers of each god themselves.

This naturally made many chambers of commerce rich, although generally speaking, people don't care much about the size of churches and temples.

But... it's completely different in Arkham!

The sacredness and majesty brought by this huge Gothic city are enough to make people tremble. In this case, if your church or temple is not well built, wouldn't it be a disgrace to your own gods?

Not to mention that this city is now crowded with various churches of gods. Although most of them are good gods or gods of neutral camps, who wants to be compared with others!

So these churches also spend a lot of money, especially rich churches like Lathander and Vol'jin, which directly throw gold coins like they don't have money, hire the best construction teams, buy the best building materials, and require the most gorgeous and noble buildings to be built.

If we use civilization as an example, Arkham City is currently completely in a religious victory mode.

Not only that, the unique lifestyle of Arkham City also makes many poor people very envious. Generally speaking, in other cities, it is difficult for the poor to find a job to support their families, let alone buy a house. However, the policy of Arkham City is completely different from that of other places. In the municipal center of Arkham, as long as the poor find a job and sign a contract, they can automatically be assigned a room, similar to public housing. The rent is automatically deducted from the salary. For example, if a poor person finds a job sweeping the streets in Arkham, he can get a public housing. Then, as long as he works hard and saves money, he can live a certain standard of life.

Moreover, the public security in Arkham City is also quite good. Although it is not at the level of not picking up lost items on the road and not locking the door at night, it is rare to see public security cases happen - this is also normal. There are angels flying in the sky, and ordinary thieves don't have the courage to act in front of angels.

Even if they are not afraid of angels, the ruthless iron fist of the night guard is not something that everyone can withstand.

Because of this, Arkham City immediately attracted the attention of many wealthy businessmen and nobles, and many businessmen also considered living here. After all, compared with the chaos and danger of other cities, places like Arkham City with good public security and a lot of God's Churches covering them, at least the safety is there.

"At present, many chambers of commerce have applied through diplomatic channels, hoping to buy land and build manors in Arkham City..."

"What's the purpose? We are not a resort."

"It is mainly for the descendants and their families to live in."

"Oh, it makes sense. This is treating Arkham City as a safe."

Duanmu Huai snorted coldly. Of course, those nobles and businessmen would not have such a demand. After all, they are all local dragons, the kind who call the wind and rain in their own territory, and don't have to worry about these problems at all. But the second-class is hard to say, especially in the North, where the situation is complicated. Many people are also worried about whether their families will be implicated. If they can live in Arkham City, at least safety can be guaranteed.

"As usual, tell them that the land of Arkham belongs to the Inquisition. It is only rented and not sold. It can be rented for a long time. The construction blueprint must be approved before construction is allowed."

"Yes."

Mistrina nodded and shook the furry ears on her head. The soft golden hair and ears of this forest princess are really beautiful. Duanmu Huai couldn't help but want to pinch them.

"Then there is the news reported by Bambi. The church of Shar has been built in the underground block No. 13 and has been put into use... Is it really okay? Isn't Shar an evil god?"

"Fighting against evil gods is not as simple as a battle between justice and evil. Although Shar is a god of the evil camp...but the feeling of not wanting the world to be destroyed is the same. After all, if the world is destroyed, she will either run away or become a slave of the Chaos God. I don't think Shar has this intention."

In fact, the gods of the evil camp hate the invasion of the Chaos God the most. After all, they are considered local mafia. Your foreign gang wants to annex the local gang. Have you asked us?

If the gods of the good camp are like government intelligence departments such as the police station or the secret service, then the gods of the evil camp are basically mafia gangs. The former have to be cautious when doing things, and the latter are lucky not to let you rob you. If you want me to bow down to you, don't even think about it!

Especially the evil gods with powerful divine power like Shar, who are more like the nature of the leader. Other brothers may change their minds or betray, but the boss like Shar has no choice but to go all the way.

Therefore, Duanmu Huai acquiesced to Shar's behavior of building a church in his basement. As long as she did not openly make trouble and confront the Tribunal, Duanmu Huai would not care about her.

But if she dared to interfere in the affairs of the Tribunal... Hehe, I hope this goddess of the night will not be so stupid.

"And the application from the Church of Heim..."

"Just reject it, don't want Heim."

Duanmu Huai waved his hand. The Church of Heim had applied several times, but Duanmu Huai would not let this group of bastards who were more likely to cause trouble than to do good come in. The reason why the Heim Church is loved by rulers in other cities is that they can help them maintain law and order. They are good dogs.

But Duanmu Huai doesn't need these good dogs. Aren't the Night Guards under his command better than this?

Tyr even came to plead for him, but Duanmu Huai really has no good feelings for Heim. This thing is completely a dog-skin plaster. It stands on the position of lawful neutrality, but it does all the lawful evil things. It also looks like it has done its duty and has a clear conscience. It's really a bitch and a saint. It's disgusting.

In Duanmu Huai's opinion, Heim is really not as good as the gods in the evil camp. After all, they have written the words "I am evil" on their faces. If someone is still fooled, it's purely their own fault. Just like the victims of telephone fraud, the police can't stop them, and they insist on transferring money. What can they do?

Then they can only wait for her to jump.

Heim is a person who secretly has a lot of thieves and prostitutes under his command, but shouts for freedom and democracy on the surface.

How shameless.

"And... applications from the Zhentarim and the Red Mage Council of Sayre."

Mistrina turned the page again.

"The Zhentarim requested to establish a base in Arkham City, and the Red Mage Council of Sayre hopes to establish a trading base for the Red Mage."

"Humph, let them sneak in to do smuggling, right? No."

Duanmu Huai didn't need to get involved with the Zhentarim, who would do business with the Drow as long as they were paid, and those red-robed bald men.

Neither of them was a good thing.

"There's another thing. The Red Mage Council hopes to have a magic exchange with Arkham City... ..."

"An is going to do it, right?"

Looking at Mistelina's embarrassed expression, Duanmu Huai immediately knew where the problem was. Magic exchanges, especially magic exchanges between different worlds, were simply An's favorite. Otherwise, Mistelina wouldn't have specifically brought it up after he had already denied it.

"Yes, Miss An is looking forward to it, and thinks it will be very interesting to have magic exchanges with the red robe wizard."

"That's because she doesn't know how notorious those bald heads are."

Duanmu Huai snorted coldly. The reputation of the red robe wizards in Sel is not much worse than that of the devils in hell, but... this is also a good opportunity.

"Okay, I approve."

Duanmu Huai thought about it and nodded.

"I want to see what those bald red robes will use to fool us."

"Next, there are some... well, not very good things."

"Hmm?"

Looking at Mistelina's hesitant look, Duanmu Huai also looked at her with some curiosity.

"Is there anything that is so difficult to talk about?"

"No, ah, it's not... It's just that there have been rumors in the outside world recently that there are complaints about the policy of Arkham City not allowing aliens to enter..."

The Lost Land is the territory of the Inquisition, and Arkham City is the city of the Inquisition, so naturally according to the requirements of the Inquisition, aliens, heretics and demons are not allowed to enter Arkham City. The latter two are easy to say, but the aliens are a bit troublesome. After all, the standard for the Inquisition to determine whether it is human is the skull, and there are many races on the continent of Faerun whose heads do not look like humans. They are basically rejected when they try to enter the Lost Land.

No wonder these races complain.

"Let them die."

Duanmu Huai snorted coldly.

"This is the order of the Inquisition. What the outside world says is their business and has nothing to do with us."

"Yes, in the end... At present, intelligence collection is in progress, and no signs of invasion similar to the Chaos Evil God have been found."

"Not now, and not necessarily in the future."

Duanmu Huai sighed, and at this moment, the communicator suddenly sounded, and then Aikote's voice appeared in Duanmu Huai's ears.

"Report to the Inquisitor Uncle, the reconnaissance fleet has locked the target!"

"Oh?"

Hearing this, Duanmu Huai's eyes lit up and he stood up quickly.

"Very good, I'll go now!"