In Zlos, the Blighted Realm, Sarlayan looked speechless as he watched Bwonsamdi, who came to visit, triumphantly and dancing about the current situation of the Zandalari Empire.
After several years of absorption and digestion, Bwonsamdi completely absorbed Mu'ezala's remaining soul essence as his own, and his strength was greatly enhanced as a result.
Now Bwonsamdi in front of Sarlayan has reached level 65, and in terms of physical strength alone, he is almost the same as Lezan.
As the "rumor" said, although Lezan is powerful personally, his brain has never been very easy to use, and he will act recklessly when encountering problems.
According to the barrage, in the original history, the future Lazan fell into a trap because he was too superstitious about his own power, and was eventually corrupted by the rebellious Zul into a Devilsaur zombie without self-awareness.
Considered from this perspective, Saryan also agrees with Rastakhan's view.
Raizan, who has protected Zandalari for tens of thousands of years, may be a qualified guardian loa, but he is not suitable to be the king's loa leading the empire forward.
Lazan lacks resourcefulness and overall perspective, and will ruin the overall situation due to impulsiveness at critical moments.
According to Bwonsamdi, among the loa currently enshrined by the Zandalari Empire, the velociraptor Gonk can be regarded as both wise and brave, but he is more than a step behind Raizan in terms of hard power and cannot shoulder the heavy responsibility of the kings of loa. .
The Pterodactyl Paku has excellent maneuverability, but lacks frontal combat capabilities.
The direhorn Tokali is too honest and honest, and is also not suitable to be the leader of Loa.
Gani, the slender jaw dragon, is resourceful, but he is too fragile.
Spider Shadra is both wise and brave, but this guy is naturally dark and unpopular, and is not widely recognized by the people of Loa and Zandalari.
In addition, the thunder lizard Akunda, the frog Kragwa, the bat Sirik, the turtle Toga, the snake god Setalis, the saber-toothed tiger Jibur, the shark Grohl, etc., all died due to various objective reasons. The reason is that he is closely related to the Zandalari Empire, so it is unlikely that he will be elected as King Loa.
After all, only Bwonsamdi, whose intelligence has long been recognized by all Zandalari citizens and Loa, is qualified to stand up and compete with Lazan for the throne of the kings of Loa.
Previously, Bwonsamdi's biggest shortcoming was hard power.
If it was a one-on-one confrontation, no matter how little tricks he used to set up traps during the battle, it would be impossible to defeat Lezan who was able to attack with all his strength.
As Bwonsamdi absorbed and digested Mu'ezala's magic essence, this final shortcoming was also made up.
After finally getting out of seclusion, Bwonsamdi couldn't wait to urge Rastakhan, who had secretly interacted with him for a long time, to start executing the plan that had been made in advance and widely publicize Lazan's resourcefulness and shortcomings in the overall situation.
On the surface, Rastakhan seemed to be filled with righteous indignation, and he arrested many Zandalari people who spread rumors, but in fact, he was actually directing and acting in this matter.
There is an old saying in another world that goes like this: A lot of words make a fortune, but a heap of ruins destroys the bones. This probably means that rumors are to be feared.
The most terrible thing is that these rumors are not entirely rumors. Lezan's character flaws are real, and even Lezan's believers cannot make a strong refutation of this.
What is not there is nothing. Even when he was extremely angry, Lezan, who was not very smart, could not come up with a solution to the root cause of the rumors.
Under the covert promotion of the two-faced Rastakhan, the rumors not only did not disappear due to his tough suppression, but instead spread wider and wider.
The fact that Ryzan was mentally deficient was gradually recognized by most Zandalari citizens.
Some people even began to reflect, is such a reckless Loa really suitable to continue to be the leader of the Zandalar Empire in this turbulent era?
This development of the situation is exactly what Rastakhan and Bwonsamdi wanted to see.
Rastakhan used his anger to return to power and never looked back. He successfully regained power from the questioned Prophet Zul.
After Rastakhan returned to power, Princess Talanji, who had previously assisted Zul in power, was gradually marginalized.
Don't get me wrong, it's not that Rastaha can't trust his daughter, he has other important tasks that need to be handled personally by Talanji, a princess with royal blood.
"Talanji and his henchmen are currently taking up residence in my underworld."
Bwonsamdi gloated: "In the eyes of outsiders, Talanji was punished by the God-King because of Zul's loss of power, and she was temporarily driven out of the center of power."
"But in fact, Talanji has signed a contract with me privately on behalf of the Zandalar God-King family."
"As long as I can defeat Raizan openly and with the attention of the whole empire, I can legitimately become the new king Loa."
Sharlayan smiled and patted Bwonsamdi on the shoulder: "Good thing. I hope that after you take over, you can guide the Zandalari Empire to do more things that are beneficial to Azeroth. Don't let them think about their nest all day long. Too bad."
Bwonsamdi shrugged and complained: "I will try my best, but you also know that Rastakhan's old boy has always been ambitious to regain the absolute dominance that the Zandalari Empire once achieved in Azeroth."
"If he continues to serve as the God-King, Zandalari will still be in conflict with other countries in Azeroth for a long time to come."
The God-Kings of the past dynasties all have a much longer lifespan than their compatriots because of the contracts they signed with the kings Loa.
Rastakhan is over 200 years old, but he still looks like a man in his prime.
If nothing unexpected happens, he can live for at least several hundred more years.
A leader who always wants to stir up trouble within Azeroth has sat in the position of God-King for a long time, which is not in line with Sharlayan's expectations for the future of the Zandalar Empire.
Therefore, Sharlayan and Bwonsamdi had already agreed that Rastakhan must die, and as soon as possible.
At this stage, Princess Talanji has not yet accumulated enough experience in governing, and is easily influenced by the opinions of her confidants...that is, Vol'jin, who has been serving as Talanji's adviser.
Moreover, Talanji has different political views from Zul and Rastakhan, and she does not intend to continue to cling to the glory of the past.
Inspired by Vol'jin, Talanji had long begun to look at the entire world. She saw the many hidden dangers facing Azeroth today. They were no longer limited to the small one-third of an acre of Zandalar Island. Then blindly try to integrate the three giant troll empires.
Every era has its own rules.
Rastakhan stubbornly wanted to bring the three feudal empires back under the control of Zandalar, but Talanji, who often communicated with Vol'jin, knew that his father's idea was too wishful thinking.
After ten thousand years of development, although the three feudal empires still nominally respect Zandalari as their master, they have no intention of re-attaching to Zandalari as their suzerain country.
As the saying goes, it is better to have a chicken head than a phoenix tail.
The newly ascended Darkspear clan has no intention of handing over its power to Zandalari.
The chief of the Drakkari Empire, the Frost King Malak, also declined Zandalari's solicitations many times.
As for the Amani Empire...forget about them for now.
With the three major clans of Amani, Deadwood and Evil Branch being wiped out one after another, the forest trolls now cannot even find a leader, and their living space in the Eastern Kingdom has been squeezed to the limit by the alliance countries.
Talanji did not agree with her father's unrealistic fantasy, but she knew very well how stubborn her father was, and she could not persuade him with just words.
According to Bwonsamdi, Talanji was privately asking Vol'jin if there was a way to go back and reconsider a new foreign policy after Rastakhan's ideas had been defeated.
Vol'jin agreed without hesitation. It seemed that he was trying his best to relieve the princess, but in fact he was just stalling for time to divert Talanji's attention.
Sarlayan looked at the beaming Bwonsamdi with interest and asked, "So, you have clearly arranged Rastakhan's future?"
"Hehe~" Bansandhi smiled slyly: "It's not that obvious. The plan has indeed been made, but the final result still depends on Rastakhan's performance."
Bwonsamdi pretended to be in mourning: "My poor King of Gods, I hope that he who will be marching personally in the near future can successfully withdraw from the front line, otherwise... we can only support Princess Talanji. Emergency takeover."
(End of chapter)
