Hellish training.
The training Jiang Han underwent over these five days was hellish training in the truest sense of the word. Compared to it, even Hell and the Abyss could be called "places of simple folkways and friendly people."
First, rest time had to be calculated in advance before training began.
According to Histeria's assessment, Jiang Han's own rest time had been determined to be three minutes and thirty-five seconds—in other words, that was all the rest she got each day. However, considering this was Jiang Han's first encounter with hellish training, Xiya had generously set her rest time at a luxurious five whole minutes.
Next came the study material: roughly an hour each day, with the goal of memorizing every book and every theory she would need. Brain-boosting potions were used to increase bodily sensitivity and thought speed, with an approximately 5.8% fatality rate. Jiang Han had been fairly lucky and had held on through all five days, though every now and then she would spray out nosebleeds mixed with fragments of thought.
Finally came combat training: repeatedly using those potions to perform mana opening forms, supplemented by Xiya personally fighting her to deepen the memories and carve them into her bodily instincts.
This training had a one-hundred-percent fatality rate. On average, Jiang Han needed to be resurrected more than sixty times a day.
Herbs, potions, precious minerals, occult gemstones, the purchase of vast quantities of spellbooks... and the fees for a potion master of Roxanne's caliber to personally operate on her.
With time so tight, Jiang Han had been forced to undergo "cutting open and suspending the spine"—digging out her spine and using precious medicines to clear away potion deposits, allowing her to learn new spells again within a short period.
There was also the precious papyrus and