When Archibald and Shier arrived with their teams, Hobart immediately assigned them their tasks. "Go patrol the towns and villages. Now that the True Creator's power has left, quite a few people should have turned into monsters!
"Your first task is to clear out those monsters. Your second is to bring these converted civilians with you and spread the name of the 'Creator'! Archibald, announce the name of the 'Creator' to the Beyonders in the army and tell them how to pray. If you encounter large-scale resistance from the True Creator's believers, immediately pray to the 'Creator.'
"If you encounter a monster that has suffered Loss of Control, eliminate it immediately! If you encounter Ordinary people showing obvious signs of Loss of Control, eliminate them as well!"
With the Aurora Society having lost control over this territory, the True Creator's gaze had departed from it. The believers who had previously accumulated immense amounts of madness and Distortion within themselves had their internal balance destroyed, which was why they would turn into monsters.
As for those so-called "Ordinary people showing obvious signs of Loss of Control," Hobart was temporarily handing the power of life and death over the people of his new territory to the Defense Force, in order to eliminate unstable factors.
Many times, before those unstable factors truly became unstable, it was easy to nip them in the bud!
But if someone were sent to report to Hobart at such a time, the best opportunity would be lost.
Of course, to prevent the Defense Force from becoming a source of chaos, Hobart added, "But you are not allowed to seize the locals' property! Anyone caught doing so must return the property and be expelled from the military!"
Watching the Defense Force leave with those converted believers, Hobart suddenly realized: