Shilin's appearance had only happened yesterday. That somewhat farcical citywide Martial Law was still fresh in many people's minds, but it had come and gone quickly. Shadow City had now returned to normal order, and the aftermath of Martial Law had caused no more than a modest amount of after-dinner gossip among the citizens. This city, long accustomed to all kinds of major disturbances, had not taken Martial Law seriously at all. It swiftly returned to its peaceful daily routine. The impact of the entire incident on the public had not even exceeded that of the anniversary sale at the Foundation Establishment Pill wholesale market in western Shadow City, when the whole city had rushed to buy supplies—Shadow City was just that kind of upscale, stylish, prestigious, inexplicably impressive high-tech place...
But while ordinary citizens had returned to their daily work and lives, the Shilin Apostles were only just beginning to get busy: they needed to adapt to the suddenly enhanced data network. Bubble and Tawell had already begun modifying the Empire's network based on Shilin's current power. It was certain that, after Shilin had rejoined the Spiritual Network, the latter's overall load capacity had nearly doubled. With a better architecture, there was still room for further improvement. Bubble had redrawn the segmentation of the Spiritual Network accordingly, expanding the originally smaller subnets to reduce resource waste and fully utilize the greater load capacity of the now more robust backbone network. The modifications might take half a month to complete, but Imperial Soldiers in Shadow City could already access the newly modified network. Networks in other regions would be upgraded afterward, section by section. Every Shilin Apostle in Shadow City could now call upon greater computing resources through the network, and the network's response speed had also become faster. That