The regent is feeling an increasing amount of dread recently as the days go by.
He is starting to regret all of the things that he has been doing for the past few years.
In fact, it is only when this kind of urgent times comes burning his backside that did, he release that all of his power came from that one and only man, the Sanjek. Without that man, his orders would immediately lose its effect once the messenger stepped out of that main gate of Ioannina.