"Quiet Core" was a term we had just coined, referring to the special universe used for bridge-building.
Building a bridge required three elements: communication between both ends, two sets of Activation Terminals, and a sufficiently calm Void state. The third was the hardest to achieve, but also the most important. It was like building a bridge across a great river: the foundation supporting the piers had to be stable enough.
Abyss Shilin had spent many years achieving this goal. Through ritual-like methods, she destroyed orderly worlds, altering the Genesis frequency and Abyss fluctuation values within a certain range while creating disturbances in the Void's Zeroing Parameter. This produced an environment suitable for bridge-building, and it was also why the Empire had observed the Void entering a calm period over the past few months.
This Void Quiet Zone had a "center." Naturally, it was not a center in the spatial sense, but the center of information entanglement. This center was the universe best suited for placing an Activation Terminal. It was less vulnerable to "zeroing" than any other universe, and when the Long Bridge was activated, the Void's backlash against it would be reduced to a very safe level.
But the New Army that had split from the Fallen Apostle had actually launched a direct assault on the Quiet Core!
"How did they get in so easily?!" I was startled, only turning to glare at Abyss Shilin two seconds later. "Didn't such an important place have any defenses?"
"Of course it had defenses!" Abyss Shilin raised her voice slightly, not to compete with me in volume, but seemingly to suppress her own agitation. After spending so much time with us, even she had picked up some habits of living creatures. For example, she no longer spoke with the same perpetual calmness