Victoria Hand's case had always been on the Sacred Guard's table.
In countless religious tales, resurrection was something worthy of extensive praise. As the only person whose physical suffering had been healed in the Emperor's embrace, Victoria Hand was practically a saint who had risen from the dead. But the Intelligence Departments of the Sacred Guard, Kamar-Taj, and the City of Immortals did not care about such symbolism. Observation of Victoria Hand had begun even before the Sacred Guard was established. Many wanted to know what changes this resurrected person would undergo, and what effect the Emperor's psychic power would have on an ordinary human.
After multiple rounds of testing, Victoria Hand seemed to have begun awakening some kind of intuition. However, the test results were not entirely accurate. Especially since no psychic spectrum had been detected, no one could say whether the Emperor's psychic power had affected Victoria Hand. The results could be attributed either to her long experience commanding special operations or to improved on-the-spot judgment in small-scale military actions. The Black Armored Interrogators had once entered Victoria Hand's dreams during the Intelligence Department's routine hypnotic lie-detector procedure, yet found no evidence proving that she had "precognitive dreams" or "déjà vu." Therefore, they could not determine whether Victoria Hand had changed because of the Emperor's psychic power.
Even so, her physical indicators, such as stamina and reaction speed, had all risen by more than ten percent. Nearly every medical examination showed that even though Victoria Hand worked overtime until late at night every day and ate irregularly, her body remained healthy. She had already entered middle age. Such an improvement in physical fitness was completely impossible without comprehensive, high-intensity physical training, yet her training consisted only of routine exercises designed for senior commanders and sufficient to meet the