(End of the month—asking for monthly votes. See? I didn't forget this time! If you have votes, hurry up and cast them. There wasn't even a double-vote event on New Year's Day, so there's definitely no reason to save them now, right?)
Work proceeded at a frantic pace. Thanks to Aurelia's efforts and the awakening of an increasing number of Old Empire Mystery-Side commanders who joined in to help, all the homeworld facilities on the "New Township" side had been transferred to the Dragon Kingdom. Alaya and Sandora were now setting new world parameters inside the Sky Tower, preparing to completely seal off this space and turn it into the "God's Kingdom" space we had envisioned.
This step did not involve the Old Empire Mystery-Side's unique technology, so Aurelia was no longer needed. Alaya could complete it herself. As for Sandora, she had merely gone along to help. This was an Empire tradition: no Shilin Apostle had a job assigned purely according to "rank." The tasks everyone took on depended solely on whether they could deliver the greatest efficiency and value in that role. Even the Head of State had to carry out a specific task if calculations showed that he would be more efficient at it.
Over the past few days, many people on the Mother Continent had been on edge. Though we had used every means available to minimize the impact on the mortal world, the Mother Continent had still endured the most tense half-month in its history. The God's Kingdom Reappearance preached by Crow God Cultists and Dragon God Cultists had indeed occurred right before their eyes—although they could not see the so-called God's Kingdom with their naked eyes, anomalies across the world were impossible to ignore:
All Lost Worlds had been closed one-way: people could leave