Chapter 564: Rebuilding the Northland Divine Shield Branch

Old John carefully placed a palm-sized wooden carving of a black cat in a wooden box, and in order to be afraid of touching it, he also stuffed some straw.

Like Old John, there are many people who receive the black cat wood carving from the nuns, because according to the holy scripture, this is the messenger of the goddess of cats, offering it will avoid the food in the house from encountering rats, at the same time, after the death of the family members, it will also be transformed into a messenger to guide the deceased to the kingdom of eternal night to enjoy the eternal serenity, therefore, although it is not as lofty as the other gods and goddesses, on the contrary, it is more in line with the needs of these people like Old John.

After selling his crops, purchasing salt, repairing his farming tools, and pulling a piece of cloth for his oldest daughter, Old John returned home and immediately found the cleanest and brightest place to place the black cat statue, and then led the family to begin praying.

Because of the words of the Holy Scriptures, soon the initial faith will be cohesive to the black cat statue, only to see the home of the mice as crazy, even if the head touched the blood to flee desperately.

Such a miraculous scene proved more and more that the black cat statue was real, and so the faith became more and more devout.

This scene took place in thousands of homes in the territory, the convergence of faith to the goddess of cats were shocked, just at the beginning of the faith has already exceeded her in the original realm, the joy of her tail are uncontrollably wagging.

Faith to the gods and goddesses was just like wages, without a stable source it would cause severe anxiety, with a stable and high wage, even as arrogant as the Goddess of Cats had to wag her tail.

What was a big deal to the Goddess of Cats for the rest of her life was a small thing to the territory, and not every part of the territory was so peaceful.

Taking the northern city as the dividing line, the southern pioneering towns developed well, with well-developed transportation, commerce and agriculture, making the whole area full of vitality and a high happiness index.

But the north was different, the war back then caused this region to be delayed for half a year before production resumed, and the venom left behind by the Barbarian Kingdom and the Evil Professionals hadn’t been cleaned up until now, and even showed signs of spreading, for which Maya had to take more and more stringent measures to prevent it from spreading to the other regions and causing even more damage.

First of all, all areas in the north are strictly divided and managed, unless holding a special pass, otherwise residents are strictly prohibited from leaving the area divided by the residence, violators will be lightly whipped, the heavy will serve hard labor.

For this reason, there are reserve regiments stationed at all major transportation routes, patrolling day and night, and there are even military dogs and cavalry, just short of barbed wire and trenches.

In addition to this, all settlements are regularly tested for their beliefs, and can only believe in the gods and goddesses stipulated in the Holy Scriptures. If they deviate from the beliefs, not only will the person concerned be imprisoned and scrutinized, but their family and relationships will also be severely investigated, and in serious cases, the entire town will be closed down.

Smuggling and hiding illegal goods, believing in evil gods and sacrifices are even more serious offenses that are directly punishable by death by hanging, and there is no such thing as guilt by association; all those involved are executed on the spot.

Even with such strict management, the problems in the northern territories still could not be eliminated.

In fact, if it wasn’t for the fact that the vast majority of the population of the northern city was systematically converted, I’m afraid that the problems in the northern part of the territory would have spread to the southern region.

Maya had to choose to include the entire northern region in the semi-military management of this very headache, each stationed regiment to maintain a state of war readiness all year round, in order to prevent the worst case scenario from occurring.

However, the army can not be used to not use, after all, most of the residents are still peaceful civilians, once too forced, it is easy to occur large-scale panic, so the territory needs a more professional personnel, able to penetrate into the civilian population, proficient in investigating, tracking, arrest, interrogation, try to reduce the scope of the impact. However, the number of combat nuns responsible for this is not large enough, and at the same time, they also need to guard the northern city to prevent the anomaly from spreading to the south, and the members of the Root Ministry are now mainly focusing on the hinterland of the former empire, so Maya intends to reorganize the Sacred Shield, so as to let this long-established organization to play a more useful role, and this is the original purpose of the creation of the Sacred Shield.

As the mobile headquarters of the Sacred Shield, the Sacred Shield will not stay in one place for a long period of time, but rather, it will turn on the stealth mode to tour all the branches all year round, to strengthen the management at the same time, but also to eliminate the possibility of corruption and self-supervision, but of course it is just a possibility, because everyone knows that it is impossible.

Unlike in the past, the S.H.I.E.L.D. is no longer a lone ship, but a fleet of twelve ships, powerful enough to completely destroy a city in a short period of time.

It was this strength that allowed the Divine Shield to have a supreme position amongst the nations and major powers.

Today, the Divine Shield was still cruising at high altitude on a non-fixed route under the protection of its frigates, but the interior was extremely busy, after all, this was the airborne headquarters of the Divine Shield, and there were hundreds of civilian staff alone.

As the highest person in charge of the Sacred Shield, General Minister Harvey’s work is very busy on weekdays, every day he needs to go through thousands of pieces of information and make hundreds of decisions, for this reason he has a large group of secretaries to organize the information and affairs for him, so that it is convenient for him to quickly read and make decisions, and to be able to give timely answers to his inquiries.

Today, the chief secretary came to report his work with his long legs, and his posture was very professional. As soon as he came in, he closed the door first, and then activated the secret lock, which made this place a secret room, and then held some stick-like object and broke it with force, and a branch of the hanger beside the door dropped down at once.

As soon as Harvey saw this situation, he knew that today’s matter would be inevitable, because the general intelligence will not have the last step, so his expression was serious with the prosthetic eye inside the eye mask to activate the several prohibitions that only he was qualified to open, and completely closed the office.

“Hey, Hydra!” The chief secretary shouted a slogan to Harvey with a serious expression, and only after receiving a response did he hand over the information he had kept close to him.

“Rebuilding the Northlands Divine Shield branch?” Harvey froze, the Sacred Shield had a branch in the Northlands, but only in name, in reality where it was all under the control of the territory, there was no need for the Sacred Shield, whose internal situation was getting more and more complicated, to intervene.

However, after carefully looking over the intelligence, Harvey frowned, he also did not expect the situation in the northern part of the territory to be so complicated, no wonder the power of the Sacred Shield had to be mobilized, but whether to use all of his own people this time, he still needed to think about it.

Harvey had always maintained close ties with the territory and had been silently digging in since the day he started absorbing outside personnel and funds.

Harvey knew very well that the Sacred Shield would no longer be pure when it expanded externally, so he secretly used the people he brought to the territory as his backbone, and quietly developed a secret association within the Sacred Shield called Hydra as a foundation to regain the power of the Sacred Shield in the future.

At the same time, Harvey has also built a triple-digit number of secret bases and an even larger number of safe houses around the country, some of which were handed over to the Roots, while the rest were used by the Hydra members that he had developed within the Sacred Shield, and every year, he would send back a large amount of information to the territory, including a number of young wizards and warlocks, which would provide the territory’s magical academy with a sufficient amount of trainees.

This time when he received the order from the territory to form a branch of the Divine Shield in the northern part of the territory, he knew that he was going to face a huge challenge.

(End of chapter)