The next half month passed peacefully, with everything proceeding in an orderly fashion.
That peace was only natural. Before this, the thing that had given the Empire the biggest headache was the constant commotion from the Abyss Zone. But now that Abyss Shilin was cooperating with the Empire and the preliminary bridge-building work had been completed, her old troops naturally would not come out to cause trouble again. As for the more radical new troops, she kept them firmly suppressed within her territory. The Empire's greatest hidden danger had temporarily settled down, so naturally all was calm.
The expansion of Deep Diving Port continued. This would be a long-term project, one that would go on throughout the joint development of new deep-diving equipment by all four sides. Equipment from the Abyss Zone had also been installed, and Tawell was now leading her team of experts in active cooperation with the Fallen Apostles' specialists, trying to integrate the technologies of both sides and get those strange Abyss devices running as soon as possible. This was no simple task. Although the Fallen Apostles and the New Empire used technologies from the same lineage and their tech trees had not diverged, much of the other side's equipment was built on the premise of "mutation." The Fallen Apostles saw such mutations as beneficial, while the Empire considered them nothing but contamination and interference. Unless this issue was sorted out, many projects could not proceed smoothly. Tawell had been busy with exactly that lately.
And while those experts bustled about, everyone else who knew nothing about the field could only wait quietly.
The recent "False Spring Cold" had passed, and K City in the Surface World welcomed pleasantly warm weather. The gradually rising temperatures brought vitality to the city, and pretty girls in short skirts