Successive Promotions
Just as Abner anticipated, the Hidden Sage indeed took advantage of the critical moment when Cattleya advanced to Clairvoyant, utilizing the high-to-low secretive connection of the Mystery Pryer pathway to descend a portion of His power into the spirit body of the Queen of Stars.
The Hidden Sage, as the name implied, was a "sage" who clearly stayed behind the scenes yet stubbornly and secretly observed everything in the world, unable to help instilling knowledge into others.
Even if He had restrained His "hobby" in order to prepare for a ritual, this flaw of "peeping" was most likely impossible to change; at most, He would simply not "speak".
Since the Hidden Sage originated from the activation of the uniqueness of the Hermit pathway, Abner guessed that this might be His instinct, an uncontrollable instinct at that.
If it were an advancement at a low sequence of the Mystery Pryer pathway, He might still be able to exercise restraint, but for an advancement to Clairvoyant like Cattleya's, He had to come and "take a look" no matter what.
At this very moment, Abner, who was fused with Cattleya's mental body, was using the cover of the huge resonance from the Sea of Collective Subconscious nearby. Utilizing the ritual arranged in advance within the villa, he leveraged the power of the Memory Theater to lock onto that suddenly appearing pair of ruthless, merciless, lashless, and nearly transparent eyes within the spirit body of the Queen of Stars from a high-dimensional perspective!
And those eyes observed Cattleya's spirit body for a brief moment, seeing from her surface memories that the advancement ritual was held at Abner's home, before decisively severing the connection.
Abner, having locked onto the Hidden Sage from a high-dimensional angle, immediately "tracked" Him. His spirit body carried out