His TRANCE ROOM and SCRY MODE were still not available. Same with his Spectator Mode, which he doubted the reason would be for Little Phoenix to be offline.
Since he could use all of those in the past, his damaged eyes were the reason they weren't available. So he wondered what else could be affected by his eyes being damaged.
He focused on forcing to enter the TRANCE ROOM or starting his SCRY MODE, but he was unsuccessful in both. But he felled resistance that prevented him from using them, and not that they weren't available at all. It meant he could reaccess them; he just had to find the right way and pull the right amount of 'force.'
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