Lu PingAn's original plan had been to begin a new work cycle as soon as possible.
This world had already entered a stable period, while operations in the outer domains had more or less run into problems due to the local war, making an intensive patrol necessary.
At the same time, Rebirth Company's regular operating procedures had to be activated to begin a new round of development in foreign realms.
During this process, the personnel lost earlier and the missing staffing positions would be counted, gaps would be identified and filled before departure, and a round of replacement would be completed.
It was not that they had any complaints about taking part in the Plane Defense War. The fact was that, for the sake of this war, the company's operations had practically come to a complete halt. While the profits should have been considerable, the losses were astronomical as well, leaving every side with shortcomings and loopholes.
Not to mention anything farther away, those "extraterritorial colonies" would surely have ideas of their own.
With all those gods who had died in battle or fled as refugees, humanity's colonial planets beyond the domain would suffer enormous losses. In reality, those losses were borne separately by the government, corporations, and churches.
So, having won this war, even if Lu PingAn considered himself above such things, he still had to think about compensating his own people for their losses.
Lost colonial planets could be retaken, and lost personnel could be replenished, but there were matters on which the government needed to make its stance clear. Otherwise, who would help them fight the next time something happened?
And this time, it was clearly the division of spoils after the war—also, in a very real sense, the "enfeoffment of kings after the war."
"...Religious personnel