Tai'a sighed, and a look of contempt for scum flashed across her eyes. "Uh, about that, juniors like us aren't really in a position to say much. But, Commander, I just don't understand—why do you have an array specifically for the Void Realm saved on your terminal?"
"An expert like me goes to the Void Realm the way someone goes downstairs for hot pot. It makes perfect sense to keep an array on hand, just like people back home always bring their own bean flour and hemorrhoid cream." Yu Lian said it with a straight face.
"...Everyone back home brings their own bean flour and hemorrhoid cream?"
Yu Lian nodded solemnly.
Tai'a had no words. She gave him a thumbs-up, then took a deep breath and began to focus her mind.
Drawing a psionic array wasn't as simple as sketching. Even for a basic design, it demanded a great deal of mental power.
Yu Lian then ordered Colonel Luigi, "Everyone, clear out of the area now. Evacuate everyone within a five-hundred-meter radius! You have ten minutes. I want three regiments of marines equipped with anti-psionic weapons, blocking all routes from the surrounding districts to this hotel..."
He glanced out the window. "Have Colonel Mina Walter and Colonel Ian Longbottom bring their units and set up a perimeter in that central park. They know what to do!"
Colonel Ian Longbottom was the security chief of Sede Fortress and the top fighter in the Far Shore Military District—a third-ring "Controller." As a spellcaster, his perception wasn't particularly strong, but his burst damage was formidable. He was basically the spacefaring equivalent of a member of the Fireball Worshippers.
"Everyone must be in position within twenty minutes," Yu Lian added.
The atmosphere at the scene turned solemn at once. Everyone felt an oppressive weight,