That "stranger" whom no one knew where he had come from or how he had vanished still had not been found. However, Avalon had entered a state of partial Martial Law. Normal order within Avalon had not been affected, but every Teleportation Gate leading into that space now had two additional monitoring checkpoints. Whether entering or leaving Avalon, everyone had to have their identity verified again. At the same time, Avalon's spatial barrier was undergoing a large-scale inspection. Though there was no evidence, some suspected that Avalon had expanded too quickly, creating weak points in its spatial barrier. The "intruder" might have bypassed the teleportation coordinates and opened a breach directly in the barrier. This theory was clearly rather serious. Such a flaw should not have appeared in an important area of the Empire's Capital World, but Sandora's position was that it was better to prepare for the worst than become complacent. For now, we would assume that Avalon's defenses and security system had vulnerabilities. Besides, Avalon had existed for several years already, and this model of space—a new model combining world fragments with Shadow Space—had never been attempted by the Old Empire. Many of its parameters needed inspection sooner or later, so we might as well do it all now.
The only thing that reassured us was that there had been no movement from Miss Lin. The prophet still maintained her good habit of keeping her twenty-four-hour passive radar fully activated and conducting thirty minutes of active scans after every meal. She said she had not seen anything that would threaten the Empire's stability, and Avalon's order would continue as normal. That put us greatly at ease.
Speaking of Lin Xue's surveillance, she had already become a strategic treasure at my side. Her "passive radar" monitored the entire Empire