Those riots were suppressed by the garrison with great speed, and those involved in the riots were arrested or deported.
Several City-States ports were closed for several days due to martial law, and logistics and trade were temporarily interrupted. The shortage of materials caused a brief panic in City-States, but the panic did not spread into larger-scale unrest under the strong control of the military.
After Douglas completed the clearing of Pentos and several nearby City-States, it moved the command post to Volantis.
He set up a temporary headquarters in the Volantis's port area to coordinate the clearance progress and material deployment of each City-States.
He works more than ten hours a day in the headquarters, handling reports and requests from various City-Statess, allocating manpower and materials, and coordinating Demon Dragons' deployment and action routes.
His body became thinner due to the continuous high-intensity work, his eye sockets were sunken, and his cheekbones were protruding, but he did not stop.
He knew that Redd was waiting for his results in Valyria City. Those results must be reports that City-States had been cleared one after another, rather than letters requesting reinforcements or delaying execution.
After Theora completed the cleanup of Lys, it turned its attention to the reconstruction and order restoration of City-States.
She reopened the ports, resumed trade, and adjusted the tax structure to ease the pressure on the people at the bottom.
She confiscated the confiscated church property and used it to repair infrastructure damaged by the war and replenish City-States's food reserves.
She personally visited various areas of City-States, met with representatives of merchants and craftsmen, listened to their demands and opinions, and used specific management measures to restore the daily operation of City-States.
She did not request any additional resources or grace from Redd, but simply submitted concise progress reports on a regular basis.
After Braavos completed the cleanup, Marcus began to deal with the remaining underground network of the Red God church in City-States.
He sent spies to infiltrate communities where Red God believers might be hiding, and used informants and intelligence exchanges to locate those strongholds that had not yet been discovered.
He reorganized Braavos's security forces, promoted those officers who performed well in the crackdown to key positions, and transferred those officials whose loyalty was questionable from positions of real power.
He set up checkpoints at each entrance to City-States to conduct strict screening of people and goods entering and exiting, to prevent the remnants of the Red God church from re-infiltrating through external channels.
The purge operation lasted for nearly two months before the public presence of the Red God church in Free Cities was basically eliminated.
Those Red Priest couples who once preached in markets and docks have disappeared, and those believers who once gathered in City-States corners have disappeared.
Those places of prayer were converted into secular buildings, and those religious symbols were erased from City-States's public spaces.
The daily operations of the trade City-States gradually resumed after the cleanup operation. Ships in the port entered and exited again, market stalls were reopened, and the number of pedestrians on the streets increased again. Everything was as if the large-scale cleaning had never happened.
After the suppression operation, Douglas wrote a detailed report and sent someone to Valyria city.
The report lists the number of churches that were liquidated in each City-States, the list of people executed or forced into labor, the total amount of confiscated assets, and statistics on military and civilian casualties during the liquidation process.
At the end of the report, he attached a brief summary - the public presence of the Red God church in Free Cities has been eliminated, and the underground remnants are still under further investigation.
Redd received a report from Douglas in the castle of Valyria city.
He sat in the study and read the report from cover to cover, then put it on the table, pressed the edge of the paper with his fingers, and scanned the key figures again.
The report is not short, but Redd reads it very quickly. His eyes move between the numbers and items, as if he is accepting a completed project list.
There was no change in his expression, he just paused slightly when reading the casualty statistics, and then continued reading.
He put down the report, leaned back in his chair, and looked out the window at the sky surrounded by volcanic barriers.
The sky became clearer after the transformation of King Ghidorah. The sun shone through the gaps in the clouds, laying a layer of warm golden light on the stone walls of the castle.
Fourteen Flames in the distance forms a dark red ring outline at low altitude. Occasionally, thin white steam floats out from the crater, which is quickly blown away by the wind.
Valyria The main project of rebuilding the city has been mostly completed. The outlines of houses and shops have been restored on the streets that were once ruins. Regular transport ships are moored in the port. The craftsmen and slaves in the camp have moved into the newly built residences.
Redd put Douglas's report into the drawer, together with the information that Mesalia had sent before.
He stood up, walked to the window, and looked at the city that was gradually taking shape in the distance.
The threat of the Red God church has been suppressed for the time being, the Free Cities operating system is being restored, and the construction of the Valyria city and the underground Dragonpit continues to advance.
He mentally compared the current situation with a few months ago - his territory was more stable, his force was more concentrated, and his opponents were intimidated.
But he also knew that the Red God church would not disappear completely because of a single crackdown. Those suppressed beliefs would continue to grow in the dark, waiting for the next opportunity.
Although the gods' ability to interfere in the real world is limited, the accumulation of the power of faith is a slow and continuous process.
He needs to further consolidate his rule, increase his power, and seal the gaps that may be exploited one by one before the next outbreak.
Redd looked away from the window, walked back to the desk, sat down, and unfolded the newly sent Valyria city reconstruction plan.
His fingers moved slowly over the unmarked areas on the map, sorting out the directions and priorities that needed to be advanced one by one.
The blank spaces on those maps are gradually reducing, the marked areas are expanding, and the outline of Valyria City is becoming more and more complete.
He needed to build the city into a true capital, a center of power that could support his long-term rule.
Those problems of church and faith can ultimately be solved with iron and fire.
He just needed to make sure that the sword in his hand was sharp enough and that the severed heads were shocking enough.
The military's force and bloody massacres indeed suppressed the problem, and no one dared to resist anymore.
Order was restored on the streets of Pentos. Those Red God believers who had gathered to cause trouble and refused to surrender their weapons either disappeared into mass graves on the outskirts of the city, or were escorted to hard labor in the mines outside Volantis.