Liszt's report upon returning to the floating castle made Hill only chuckle a few times. Ambition was quite normal, indeed, but showing full-blown ambition while knowing nothing at all sometimes looked especially foolish.
Yet Hill actually had no interest in these Mystra followers who had rushed over from elsewhere. After discovering that no one doubted Edna's identity, he had no intention of paying them any further attention.
He merely asked Liszt to keep an eye on the hidden visitors. This did not necessarily mean they were after Mystra; for those evil god cultists or mages fond of exploiting demonic power, Shar and her newly acquired Seat of Sakorsil held far greater appeal.
Everyone understood Larok's capabilities; no one believed Shar could effortlessly and completely conquer this greater divine artifact.
However, Aglaia City also enjoyed quite a resounding reputation among Toril's evil factions, seeing as it was a place with more rules than even the Justice Knights' headquarters.
To ordinary people, these rules amounted to nothing since they lacked even the capacity to break them, but for professionals, they were rather agonizing.
The stronger one's ability, the greater the restriction one felt. Normally, plenty of strong individuals from the evil alignment and even some non-evil chaos factions ought to have rushed to Aglaia to teach this Lord Hill a lesson about the pride of the strong.
Yet regrettably, those who truly had the nerve to stir up trouble in Aglaia basically vanished without a sound, so the majority ultimately chose to respect the Aglaia lord's will. By the time the Spellplague began, the intelligence obtained from the dragons made people shy away from this place all the more.
They did not have skulls that hard, estimating they could not endure even a single punch.
Those who still dared attempt entry into