After bidding farewell to Dora and Maria, Su Yi went straight through a Teleportation Gate to Open-Heaven Manor.
After five years of recovery, Open-Heaven Manor had completely erased every lingering trace of Nightmare.
Although it had previously lost a great many of its core personnel,
with the help the Light Empire and the players had provided over these five years,
the entire manor's production capacity had now returned to its former normal level.
Moreover, after streamlining its workforce, Open-Heaven Manor discovered that its remaining personnel could still handle its daily work and requirements perfectly well.
Excessive expansion of its staff would not provide any decisive boost to the manor's efficiency or research progress.
Thus, over these five years, Open-Heaven Manor had not conducted any large-scale recruitment.
All its new recruits were exchange interns introduced by its partners.
Roughly one-third of them came from the player community.
The other two-thirds came almost entirely from the Light Empire's core personnel.
Some of these core personnel came from Nine Blades' auxiliary army, some from the Black Sun Group, and others from the Moon-Drinking Azure Wolf.
Before coming here, they might have been warriors, researchers, or engineers.
Naturally, they had come to use the learning materials here to refine their abilities and broaden their horizons.
Open-Heaven Manor had also sent its own members to the Light Empire for exchanges and study.
It could be said that their mutual exchanges and learning over these five years had gone remarkably smoothly.
"Godfather! Big brother!"
Su Yi's first stop at Open-Heaven Manor was naturally to see Alton and Leg Kicker, who were now stationed here.
Over the past five years, the two had established a well-organized representative office here on behalf of the Light Empire.
Around ten thousand members were now working and studying here.
Of course,