Hobart "brought" his office back to Anjou's imperial palace.
Only after returning did He realize that not only had his office inexplicably left its original location, but the entire palace had been torn apart by some force and scattered across the country.
Hobart retrieved each piece and "assembled" them back together like Building Blocks.
The palace staff had all been badly frightened. Hobart roughly explained what had happened just now to the two Empresses and had Audrey provide the staff with psychological counseling.
Starting around two years ago, after signing a confidentiality agreement, the palace staff were no longer kept in the dark about the occasional extraordinary incidents within the palace.
Otherwise, constantly hypnotizing them would place considerable strain on both their minds and spirit bodies. Once they reached their limit, they might inexplicably turn into Madmen themselves.
So they simply stopped concealing such matters, though none of this information could be taken outside the palace.
Hobart had the two Empresses stabilize the situation in the palace before using Distortion to arrive inside the mausoleum.
"The Creator" had just returned from the Land Abandoned by God. He tossed Hobart a small crystal and said, "I have some ideas and would like to hear your opinion."
Hobart caught it. What he held was a polygonal crystal that glittered faintly with starlight, yet embedded within it was an eyeball with a blue pupil.
He "recalled" that this was one of the dozen or so crystals from the High-Dimensional Overseer that "The Creator" had drawn in with a black hole during the previous battle.
The other crystals had shattered upon entering the black hole. Only this one had remained intact, and it looked exceptionally unusual.
After considering it for a moment, Hobart said, "My thoughts are the same as yours."
"The Creator" slowly