"Get your soldiers ready," Sandora told me after the mercenaries had finally left. "We may be going to war."
"War? Against whom?"
The news caught me completely off guard. Wasn't Sandora in the middle of a war-weariness phase? How had she returned to being the War Song Princess so quickly?
My original plan had been to find Qian Qian and my sister, spend a couple of days having fun with them in this world, and then head back. Of course, we would also help the humans of this world wipe out some Demonized Creatures along the way, doing our duty as members of the Empire. But war? I had never considered that. It was just far too unharmonious...
Seeing my surprise and reluctance, Sandora said irritably, "Do you think I want this? The problem is that this world has already been corrupted by Abyssal power to this extent. As a Shilin Apostle, how could I tolerate the Empire's mortal enemy running rampant like this?"
At Sandora's words, my face immediately fell. You might be a genuine Shilin Apostle, but I was only a halfway convert. Why did I have to get dragged into such a pointless game?
Sandora immediately sensed my reluctance through our Spiritual Connection and roughly guessed what I was thinking. She decisively cut off my last avenue of retreat. "I know you're unwilling, but we have no other choice now. Actually, I have some bad news for you: this world's creator was definitely an idiot Creator God who couldn't even pass Level Two Creation Studies. After creating this world, he actually forgot to install stabilization barriers for its key laws and foundational spatial structure. That directly allowed Abyssal power to interfere with this world's planar state during external teleportation. Now our Space Transition System can no longer