Out of caution, Jia Xiu decided to try one more time,
This time, he would only trigger the hallucination and wouldn't cast a spell to reduce the stress.
It wasn't easy to find someone with such strong mental fortitude who was also willing to take part in the experiment.
Morris readily agreed to Jia Xiu's request.
"I can't wait to go kill some Demonfolk!" he cheered excitedly.
Clearly, his hatred of the Demonfolk was no ordinary grudge.
The second test began. This time, Jia Xiu didn't cast a spell.
Morris's face twisted into a grimace again, and the veins on his arms bulged.
"How do you feel?"
"I... feel... really... good—"
"Right, you clearly don't feel good at all."
Jia Xiu carefully observed Morris's condition. Compared to the first time, he seemed to be doing a little better.
At least he could speak.
So Jia Xiu cast the spell again.
The experiment continued, with a third and fourth round...
In the end, Jia Xiu concluded that his desensitization approach seemed viable. Morris's reactions to the Demonfolk hallucinations and flashbacks of traumatic memories improved a little each time.
At this rate, it shouldn't take long before he could ignore the symptoms completely.
Jia Xiu decided to call it the "memorization" therapy. If you learned every frightening moment in a horror game by heart, you wouldn't be scared when you played it again.
That was what he'd done when he was terrible at horror games but couldn't stop playing. It was embarrassing, but watching a walkthrough first really did help. He repeated the same experiment with several other patients who were willing to deliberately trigger their traumatic memories.
That confirmed the desensitization wasn't unique to Morris because he was unusually tough.
"Thank you all very much."
Jia Xiu took off his mage's