Crusader Army of the central route.
The mobile Holy See, Herber.
Unlike Pierce's, this was not a miniature Starry Sky Continent, but a small Starry Sky Continent as large as an entire Star System.
This was Elishael, the third-ranked cardinal of the Black Church and the supreme commander of this Crusader Army expedition!
The destruction of an entire Crusader Army was no small matter.
If mishandled, it could even trigger a full-scale crisis within the Black Church.
"Sand, has all information from Pierce's side been sealed off?"
"Yes, Cardinal Elishael. When the news arrived, everyone on the bridge had already been brought under control!"
"Mm. Have everyone below deacon rank erased. Subject the rest to the highest level of corrective education, then send them to serve in the Crusader Army."
"Understood!"
Sand nodded as he replied.
This was far from the first time he had handled such matters. He was thoroughly practiced at it.
Although those deacons could escape death, at a time like this, perhaps death would have been a blessing instead.
So-called corrective education involved using drugs and psychological methods to comprehensively alter a person's thinking, until they no longer possessed independent thoughts and obeyed orders like robots.
Of course, this "treatment" was reserved only for those of deacon rank.
After all, the weakest members of the Crusader Army were Peak Dark Energy Manipulators, and deacon rank happened to correspond to that level.
As for the others, in the eyes of the Black Church's upper ranks, they were not even qualified to receive corrective education.
After all, the resources and manpower required for corrective education were extremely costly.
Thus, for those who were not even deacons, it was more economical to simply discard them than waste such resources.
As for discarding them, that was merely a nicer way