"Can you tell me about the New Empire?" Aurelia looked at us, seeming full of anticipation.
"Of course. We can talk as we walk," I replied with a smile. Up until now, Aurelia had mostly been answering everyone's questions. We had learned a great deal about the Old Empire from her, yet had barely mentioned the New Empire. Aurelia knew that the other half of the Mother Planet had successfully awakened, but she knew nothing about everything that had happened in the outside world. Her memories ended on the day the Mother Planet underwent Conceptual Division, and they had not even fully recovered yet—I wondered what she would think once she learned of the New Empire's current state.
Though the New Empire had existed for only four years, those years had been full of twists and turns, enough to be called magnificent and tumultuous. Sandora's return, renewed contact with the God Race, the battle at the Hall of Documents, the current Minion Army, Shadow City, the Macro World, those exiled Imperial vassals and survivors from the former Empire's surrounding territories... We probably could not finish telling it all even in three days and three nights. At times like this, I was glad Shilin Apostles possessed special abilities. Aurelia could directly read the data packets Sandora shared with her—roughly ninety percent of the intelligence on the New Empire was "told" to her that way. The only things we needed to explain separately were minor details that the Database could not record.
The glorious civilization of the Shilin Apostles still endured, and now it even showed signs of revival. The Empire was developing steadily and had reestablished contact with the God Race... To Aurelia, all of this was joyous news. Yet at the same time, there was something that weighed heavily on