"Very well, then what would you like in return, Your Eminence Tiamat?"
It had to be said that Lolth made no secret of treating people according to what they could offer. Before this, she had not even bothered to spare the three Lesser Powers a glance.
Now, faced with Tiamat, who could offer her assistance, her tone immediately improved considerably.
"Your Eminence Lolth, what I ask is insignificant to you. All I want is the faith of those filthy creatures in the Underdark."
A smile spread across Tiamat's lips.
The Dragon Race was exceedingly arrogant, looking down equally on all creatures, even their own kind. Even the Dragon Emperor, the strongest of the Dragon Race, could not make every dragon submit.
And creatures this arrogant were almost incapable of offering wholehearted faith to a deity.
Even with Tiamat acting as the representative of the Chromatic Dragons in their resistance against the Dragon Emperor's rule, most Chromatic Dragons had only become shallow believers in Tiamat, and quite a few dragons were merely casual believers.
As powerful creatures, dragons did provide considerably more faith than ordinary humans.
However, their already sparse numbers and lack of devotion left Tiamat firmly stuck as a Lesser Power, unable to make any progress.
After years of fruitless effort, Tiamat had come to accept reality. Tiamat knew that relying on the faith of dragons alone could never make Tiamat stronger.
For the sake of power, Tiamat had no choice but to set aside that arrogance and had recently been considering how to gather some non-dragon believers.
But with the current situation on the Main Plane, no good opportunity had presented itself.
Lolth happened to ask for help at this moment, reminding Tiamat of the Underdark.
As for why Tiamat could declare that such a fighting force could