Once Edna had settled on a route, she had little reason to be nervous... She knew she would face danger, but she refused to believe it would cost her life.
Lord Aglaia's influence was among the greatest in Toril.
It wasn't that the people of Aglaia were arrogant enough to call their lord invincible. Toril had far too many beings of Greater Divine Power for that.
But when they counted how many gods were friendly with Lord Hill, they couldn't imagine anyone daring to anger him.
In Toril, you could count the powerful figures who were as formidable as their lord and just as reluctant to start trouble on one hand.
Most importantly, Aglaia also had the Undead.
When Toril judged a faction's strength, it didn't look only at its strongest fighter... Even Transcendent powerhouses couldn't be deployed lightly! That went double for someone like their lord, whose power rivaled a god's.
But at low and middle levels, who could match the Undead?
That was why the people of Aglaia never worried about being extorted when they went out.
As long as they weren't in the wrong, they could go to the Alchemy Hall in their territory, and those Terrasil Elves who loved nothing more than a good uproar would spring into action.
The Alchemy Hall rarely demanded payment a petitioner couldn't afford.
Its payment terms were flexible.
If someone was killed while traveling for work or trade, and the family couldn't afford the fee, that Divine Artifact might even suggest making up the difference with money taken from the victim's body.
At first, no one understood what that meant. Then the Undead killed the culprits and used their property to cover the cost... If that still wasn't enough, they could widen the hunt and make some of the killers'