Castel, in the newly built conference room of the cathedral.
The main structure of this church had been completed back during the Deep Sea War, but saying it was finished would have been a bit of an overstatement.
At the time, the entire church had practically been bare concrete—rough cement floors, walls covered with nothing more than a coat of whitewash.
Banshees often complained that it scratched their scales.
Now that the situation had largely stabilized, the cathedral had undergone some renovations. At the very least, it had tiled floors and partitioned spaces, such as this conference room.
Previously, Theus had adhered to the principle that the fewer meetings, the better. Whenever something came up, they simply discussed it in his office. But... there were simply too many people attending today, and his cramped office could not hold them all, so they had come to this newly built conference room.
Today's meeting was Castel's pre-war conference.
Several clerks hurriedly carried in boxes of documents, then sorted and distributed them to the people seated around the long table.
The heads of nearly every important department in Castel had come: Gaia, who oversaw military factory production; Richard, who handled weapons development and the establishment of the medical system; Tata, who managed the shipyards; Nini, who oversaw agricultural production; and Finier, who ran the newspaper office—the official newspaper office.
The reason for specifically noting that it was official was mainly because unofficial newspapers, which theoretically did not exist, wielded influence several orders of magnitude greater than the official press.
Those were the main production departments. Ash served as the overall commander for combat operations, with Erwin as her deputy. As for Alexei, he now led the Church affairs of Empire Truth.
Church affairs sounded simple, but they essentially encompassed everything except religion itself,