Chapter 1003: Let's See What You Use to Burn It

After organizing all the grain, it was discovered that at least over one million tons had been lost, of which 400,000 tons had sprouted, about 300,000 tons had been charred, and about 400,000 tons had been cooked...

"Divine fire is indeed vigorous; it can cook so much in such a short time. If you could set up a fire in the city, it would be enough to cook meals for millions of people." Negris complained, and casually took a bite of the rice, his eyes suddenly lighting up: "It's actually quite delicious."

Hearing this, Anthony also grabbed a handful and stuffed it into his mouth, saying while stuffing, "Lord Negris, your idea is feasible, but it's not very realistic because divine fire inevitably consumes divine power, and I don't know how much rice this so-called Undying Divine Flame can cook. Eh, it really is delicious, every grain is distinct, the fragrance is nose-piercing, the moisture is moderate, and it's as delicious as rice cooked with firewood in a big stove."

Silver Coin Du Luo Ken also curiously came over, grabbed a handful, and stuffed it into his mouth, his eyes immediately lighting up, and Silver Coin even said, "It feels very filling."

"Koni Sai, first distribute these cooked ones. What are the losses? What's the situation with the defensive array? Is the management system still intact?" Anthony asked Koni Sai, who had returned from checking.

Under the Heaven-Shocking Thunder, the entire upper echelon of the Omniscient Church had been almost wiped out, and those small fries on the edge of the bubble were basically attendants and guards of priests and bishops, and didn't belong to the management layer.

That is to say, the management layer of the Omniscient Church was almost dead. Unless there was a second set of backup deputy systems, it might not even be possible to distribute the grain.

Koni Sai reported, "More than a dozen Temple Guardians rebelled. They occupied the control room and activated the defensive array, but they have already been taken back by the remaining Temple Guardians, and they have also been killed. I have brought their corpses over."

Eight or nine Temple Guardians each carried two corpses and flew over. After putting them down, they bowed and went back, their posture extremely submissive.

Du Luo Ken took the corpses and went to perform Soul Search.

Koni Sai continued to report, "The church's system has collapsed. Of the two High Priests, only I remain. Of the twenty main bishops, and over two hundred priests, less than ten remain. Relying on this few people, it's impossible to support the entire system."

"I have already ordered their deputies to teleport over, but now it's a major project of distributing hundreds of thousands of tons of grain to tens of millions of people. I don't know if they have the experience to complete it."

The distribution of supplies has never been an easy matter. Anything involving a large population is not an easy task and requires experienced managers to cooperate.

How to transport hundreds of thousands of tons of grain away, what transportation tools to use, how to arrange the order—if not arranged well, they will crowd together, and if there are not enough transportation tools, they will pile up there, blocking traffic.

How to distribute it after transporting it back? How to calculate the loss during transportation? How to arrange the eating, drinking, and excreting of the transportation personnel? How to register the quantity? How to register the distribution? Who received it and who didn't, and what to do if someone impersonates?

The most realistic question: are they literate? Can they do arithmetic?

This is not a small problem. In a world with an illiteracy rate of over 95%, it's not easy to find people who can write and count. If they are illiterate, how to register? If they can't do arithmetic, how to calculate the quantity?

Koni Sai had a headache just thinking about it. Of course, such people existed in the Sea of Omniscience, but the high-level officials who managed these people were almost wiped out, leaving him at a loss as to how to start.

However, the situation that left Koni Sai at a loss was familiar to Anthony, who directly ordered, "Do you have a magic academy here? Mobilize all the teachers and students."

Mages are bound to be literate and able to do arithmetic, even magic apprentices are no exception.

"Get some cloth of different colors, cut them into strips, and tie them on their heads. Red is for captains; everyone reports to the red headscarves. Green is for transportation; distribute them to those carriage drivers and semi-submersible boatmen. Yellow is for porters... everyone performs their own duties."

"Let the teachers of the magic academy act as managers, the students as statisticians, and the principal maintain order. Let the managers of each city come to collect the grain. Do you have the population statistics of the cities?"

"Distribute grain according to 120% of the population. If the loss is within 20%, don't worry about it. If it exceeds 20% and there is no legitimate reason, hang them."

"Silver Coin, can you transfer some accountants from your side? Let them supervise."

Silver Coin responded, "No problem." And then went down to call for people.

Silver Coin pays the most attention to team building and personnel training, because to make money, it's very difficult without a capable team.

After Anthony arranged it item by item, the Omniscient Church, which had lost almost all its high-level officials, began to operate again. A large amount of grain was continuously transported to the docks by carriages and then transported to various cities in the plane by semi-submersible boats.

The process of transporting from here to various bubbles was still quite simple because it was all covered by water, and city transportation was equivalent to sea transportation. Only in this way could the fire loss be controlled to below 20%. If it were land transportation, it would be good if one or two jin of grain out of ten could be transported to the destination.

After arranging the grain distribution, Du Luo Ken's Soul Search also ended, and he came over to report:

"Their souls have no memory of activating the defensive array. Their memory stops at the moment we arrived and you, my lord, held up the Heaven Thunder. Moreover, their souls have been damaged. I suspect they were mentally controlled."

"Mental control?" Negris was shocked. "What kind of mental control?"

There are many kinds of mental control: contractual, hypnotic, charming, restrictive, PUA. For example, the Adams Forbidden Ring is a restrictive type of mental control.

Du Luo Ken said, "There's no memory. If it wasn't wiped afterward, then it's hypnotic."

Unable to search for memories in the soul, this line of the Temple Guardians was broken. Negris had to look at Anthony, just wanting to say something, when the ground suddenly rumbled and rose.

Turning his head, he saw Ang raising his hands high, earth elements surging from the earth, and the soil in front of him slowly bulging.

While the soil was bulging, the Little Sapling began to wave its true leaves, and a kind of fine vine immediately grew on the ground, winding onto the bulging earth wall.

The earth wall was still soft, and the vines wound around it, directly embedding into the soil. Constantly bulging and constantly winding, the interior of the earth wall was equivalent to being embedded with a layer of vine skeleton.

Negris asked in surprise, "What are you doing? Mixing tendons into the mud? Are you ramming an earth wall to build a house?"

Ang didn't respond, but Du Luo Ken had already flown up and said, "Round. Small head, big shoulders, round belly. It looks like a bottle."

"Pfft... A bottle with a diameter of 50 meters? Are you going to fire pottery?" Negris glanced at Ang, and then, as if thinking of something, turned his head sharply to look at the hundreds of thousands of tons of malt in the Divine Domain: "Are you going to build a bottle to brew wine?"

Ang nodded.

Good fellow, if the malt isn't delicious, just use it to brew wine, and if there's nothing to hold it, just build one on the spot. Negris said angrily, "A pottery bottle with a diameter of 50 meters—is this a bottle? This is a wine lake, alright. Such a huge pottery bottle, let's see what you use to fire it."