Many students felt they had suffered tremendous trauma in the Otherworld. Every one of them was utterly listless, plagued by nightmares each night, repeatedly dreaming of that terrifying exam.
The Black Castle personnel at the hospital mainly set up Ritual Arrays to prevent the students from attracting uncanny entities in their current condition. As for treatment, they took a conservative approach, using alchemical potions only in the most severe cases.
Of the Black Castle's Supernaturals, only Sebastina, who was on duty, came to take a look. The others never even appeared. The most frequent visitors were people from the royal family and certain figures from the mystical world connected to the great nobles.
Under the original circumstances, most of these students would probably have needed several months to half a year to recover, while some might never have recovered at all. That was the assessment of the hospital's doctors, and even of some figures from the mystical world.
If any students truly could not hold on in the end, saving their lives would not be complicated. They could simply ask a bishop-level priest of the Holy Temple at Digo Grand Cathedral to thoroughly purify the students with the aid of Holy Water. After such purification, however, the student's prospects in the mystical world would essentially come to an end. Perhaps turning to the practice of holy light would offer more hope.
But this purification required more than a personal sacrifice from the student; it was expensive, too. Holy light shone upon every devout believer, but the Holy Temple's expenses were no free lunch.
That, however, was only how things would originally have gone. The others' assessments were not wrong, but they had failed to account for one important variable: Mulan's power.
As the instigator of this brutal exam, Mulan could