"Senior Claire? What's wrong?"
Noticing immediately that something was off with her, Anvis raised a hand and cast a healing spell.
"Wait... Anvis, this place seems somehow familiar to me..."
Still clutching her head, Claire suddenly swayed to her feet, walked over to the Obelisk, lightly cut her fingertip, and pressed the bleeding finger against the Diamond Rune.
When the dim inscription was stained with the girl's blood, a gentle silver glow suddenly lit up from deep within its lines, gradually flowing until it filled the entire rune.
"Anvis... hold my hand here... Use your scepter to establish a connection with it—"
"I understand."
Nodding, Anvis thought for a moment, then gently removed the glove from his left hand and held the girl's slender hand in his palm.
The touch against his palm was damp and icy cold.
The next moment, a gentle yet utterly lifeless synthesized voice suddenly sounded within his Sea of Spirit.
"This is Bohemia. Full self-inspection complete. Seven million, six hundred and twenty-three thousand years later, welcome back, Controller, Your Excellency—"
At the same time, a detailed three-dimensional map of Sky City suddenly appeared in his Sea of Spirit, its details far more extensive than the projection in the center of the hall.
It included the hall where the academy members were gathered, the various defensive mechanisms inside the Ruins, the exact damaged sections of the Ruins, and the many Ninth Rank Experts outside.
The details of everything were transmitted in real time into Anvis's spiritual space as miniature three-dimensional images, as though he had activated a god's-eye view.
Moreover, whenever Anvis focused his mind on a particular area of the projection, he could enlarge it for closer observation and sense what his authority allowed him to do.
To test the capabilities of his authority, Anvis