Chapter 403: Everything is Poisonous except the Snake (3)
At first, Jormungandr was a bit confused when he heard these words. He was like a martial arts master who had been in seclusion and opened his eyes to find that the world had changed.
Shouldn't Earth be a backwater place in the middle of nowhere? What are these things on the sea? What are these things on land? And what are those things in the sky?
Despite his intelligence, Jormungandr did not possess the power of clairvoyance. He never expected that in just a few thousand years, humans would undergo such enormous changes and that this small planet would become so prosperous.
However, this did not interest Jormungandr at all. He only wanted to return to Asgard to seek revenge. After communicating with Sanctum Sanctorum for a while, Jormungandr finally understood the current situation.
Humans had formed a strange organization to communicate with various spacedemon gods, providing them with various strange services, and had already gained a large number of clients.
Feeling that he was gradually falling behind the times on Earth, Jormungandr ultimately chose to contact Sanctum Sanctorum. However, this cunning serpent did not pay directly, but kept chatting with customer service to obtain useful information. Whenever the topic of payment or membership came up, he would change the subject.
One day, he was still chatting with customer service when suddenly, the service stopped and said, "I'm sorry, Mr. Jormungandr, you have an emergency communication. Do you want to take it?"
"Emergency communication?" Jormungandr immediately became alert. "No, I don't know any demon gods."
"Okay." The customer service put the receiver away and said to someone beside her, "Apologize to Prince Loki for me. The customer he wants to contact refused to take the call... A coup in Asgard? Usurpation? But..."
"Wait!... Who?" Jormungandr asked on the other end. The customer service seemed to still be talking to the person next to her, so Jormungandr raised his voice a little and said, "Who did you say was calling me?"
"Oh, sorry, it's Prince Loki, Loki Odinson."
"Odinson?" Jormungandr slowly uttered the surname. "Connect me to his call."
"Wait... um, sorry, you don't currently have the authority to make cross-dimensional calls. That's a feature reserved for members only. Would you like to become a member?"
If Jormungandr had hands, he would have scratched his head like crazy and gone insane. Finally, he said, "Okay, I'll become a member. You humans are so cunning. How do I become a member?"
"First, you need to find a representative on Earth and project your power into his body. Then, he needs to come to Sanctum Sanctorum and give us the power. We will register your name in our membership database..."
Jormungandr felt a headache coming on. He didn't know who to choose as his representative. It sounded like an important position, but not important enough to make him risk showing himself on Earth.
At this point, he suddenly remembered the followers who had been worshipping him all along, absorbing their faith and competing for believers was a natural instinct for spacedemon gods. He thought that if these people were willing to believe in him, then the representative must be chosen from among them.
Jormungandr didn't think too much and chose the most devout one among them.
After the phone call, Schiller saw Jormungandr in his dream again that night. He almost didn't have time to hide the tall tower he was building.
Jormungandr gave him a lot of tasks, mainly organizing religion, recruiting believers, and encouraging them to pray devoutly.
To be honest, Jormungandr didn't believe that an ordinary human could complete such a heavy task, and with his wisdom, he understood that developing religion and collecting faith was not something that could be achieved overnight. But Jormungandr was not a short-lived human, and he could wait for hundreds of years.
But who knew, after three days, Schiller contacted him and told him that everything was done.
He had a complete organization called Hydra, a religious book called "Who is Hydra?", and even had an Inquisition and their assassin, Grant Ward.
Jormungandr was a little confused, he thought it had been three hundred years, not just three days, but Schiller's explanation almost convinced him.
Divide and conquer? United we stand? It sounded a lot like he had done this before? Did I forget because I slept for too long???
But Schiller also raised his own difficulties. The development of the entire Hydra organization took too long, and there were too many people. Many of them had forgotten the teachings of the gods. But the power of the Inquisition was not enough to judge those apostates...
Jormungandr thought it was easy, he could give them both power and they could just kill them all, right?
But Schiller was very hesitant and said that dead people couldn't provide power of faith. If they could make them convert, that would be even better.
Then Schiller proposed a plan to Jormungandr. Simply put, he would scare them in their dreams, and maybe they would convert to him?
If they really didn't believe, then Grant could take care of them. This way, the organization's structure could be greatly streamlined, leaving behind the most elite group of believers. Even if there were only ten thousand people left, it would be enough to provide a huge amount of power of faith.
Jormungandr realized that this Pope he had appointed seemed to be too skilled in this area, but he didn't think too much about it. In his view, these tiny creatures trapped on a small planet wouldn't cause too much trouble. Even if the development was slow or failed, it didn't matter. Another wave would grow in a few hundred years.
With this in mind, Jormungandr did as he was told. He went into the dreams of several Hydra leaders designated by Schiller and emphasized to them the fact that Hydra was an inseparable part of Hydra since ancient times. Essentially, he revealed his true identity by saying, "I am Hydra, believe it or not, if you don't believe me, I'll bite you tomorrow."
Most people, for various reasons, chose to convert. Those die-hard members were also eliminated.
In this way, the original global Hydra with over 100,000 people was purified into less than 30,000 Hydra believers. Although more than 29,000 of them did not actually believe in Hydra, but only because this belief brought them benefits, due to the large number of people, they still provided a lot of power of faith.
Now everything was prepared, only waiting for Loki to shout "Odin has been oppressing the world for too long!" The horn of the counter-attack against Asgard war would be sounded.
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