Public Resurrection Backup

The "deep pit" Kotar had left behind was not actually very deep; it was only about one Alice tall from the ground.

Of course, considering that it had originally been a hill, the change was still quite significant.

Inside the "deep pit," the soil was smooth and mixed with a few stones. Quite a few mutated, twisted plants of indiscernible species grew around it, making it look little different from anywhere else.

Except...

Alice blinked her eyes and asked Klein, "Do you feel anything?"

Klein shook his head in confusion.

"Look at your Spirit Body Threads," Alice reminded him.

Without the corresponding abilities and authority, Alice could not actually control Spirit Body Threads. But that didn't mean that when facing someone else's control, she could only remain unaware and obediently surrender—Restart was enough to solve most problems.

With her reminder, Klein also noticed the effect this area had on Spirit Body Threads. Without a doubt, this had been left behind by Kotar or the anomaly from back then. As for what had happened at the time...

Alice lightly blinked, and the scene from the past appeared.

Gray-white mist wriggled as it spat out a black shadow. Alice suspected it was similar to how it had spat her out when she first came to the Forsaken Land of the Gods—eh, why had it spat outward back then, but swallowed inward now?

...Was there any difference?

Alice paused. She slightly raised her hand, then put it back down, pursing her lips as she turned her attention back to Kotar.

—The only thing she could think of was that she had become more like the Key of Light, more inseparable from it.

The moment the enormous black shadow appeared, all the surrounding light rays were drawn toward it. The area near the shadow