In a data space utterly different from the real world, do not judge what you see by common sense.
I repeated the rule Sandora had told me before the upload, then walked over to the image embedded in the ground and watched Shilin grin foolishly at me. "Why are you appearing in this form?"
"To conserve network resources." Shilin's mouth moved in the image, but her voice came from every direction. "Your Majesty's soul strength is very high. Even uploading only your consciousness places a heavy burden on the network, so I need to reduce my own network usage. This network is layered, and data from each layer can circulate independently. My main body is in the underlying links. When communicating with Your Majesty, I only need to use a simple interactive interface like this one to maximize network efficiency."
I understood, though whether I understood did not really matter. As long as I knew Shilin was the network's highest administrator, it was enough to know that her decisions would naturally benefit the network as a whole. The only consequence was that I had to keep my head lowered whenever I spoke to her. It felt pretty strange, and I could easily end up stepping on her forehead...
"This place is seriously desolate." Viska remained fully armed, though her expression was lazy as she looked around. She raised her bow and aimed at a protruding rectangular block in the sky. "Your Spiritual Network is so busy every day. I thought I'd see a lively scene here—do you think firing an arrow would interfere with the network? If we're going to fight here, we should confirm that first."
"The network backbone has data protection. As long as the threshold is not exceeded, it will not be damaged. The threshold is determined