Luojin and Babas, the two leaders who achieved third awakening through the God-Making Project, have already gone to the Kingdom of Manitoba and the Kingdom of Queensland respectively to defend against the Black Tide. This is also why the involvement of Urd and other deities became necessary.
Manpower is indeed in short supply. Even Edward, stationed in Moscow, occasionally needs to take on field tasks. If only he could achieve third awakening, it would greatly reduce the Church's burden.
However, Edward is somewhat unwilling. He has been spending a lot of time with Evelyn lately and doesn't want to go out on missions. But when Marvin personally brought the corpse of a giant scorpion to his doorstep, it became difficult to refuse.
