Show Them.
Ryu stood there not moving at all for a long while. He checked his talents one by one and they all seemed to have a limitation of some sort. Even when he tried to pull out his Inner World to suppress whatever suppression he was currently under, he couldn't even seem to communicate with it. Whether it was Elise, her butler, Eska and Isemeine, or even his new Summoning trainee, he couldn't sense them at all.
Ryu closed his eyes.
There was one thing that didn't seem to be affected at all: his Bloodlines.
Everything else, even his qi to a greater extent than he had noticed until now, was suppressed in some form or fashion.
Obviously, this was a clue.
What was the description of the Rotten Sea again? Wasn't it a place that houses the mutated and decomposed bloodlines of all those that had fallen here in the past?
In that case, did this have to do with Bloodlines? But was understanding that even a good thing?