"It can be done! I'll succeed! With Professor Jonester teaching me, I'll definitely succeed!"
If Jenny's earlier choice of Mulan had been partly driven by an emotional impulse, she was now utterly certain that, under Professor Jonester's guidance, she could become a supernatural being who wielded the power of a secret realm.
Perhaps this belief still lacked decisive evidence, but the feedback she received on an intuitive level was extraordinarily strong.
Mulan had also noticed the subtle changes in Jenny. This was precisely the result he wanted.
Theory, contact, interference, feedback, resonance, and transformation-Mulan would carefully guide Jenny forward, step by step. But the effects of confidence were also crucial on a supernatural path.
While Jenny and the other students of the Black Castle grew increasingly excited during this time, someone else's heart sank ever deeper into despair.
The Holy Temple train carrying Gaormos began moving again after spending a day at the last supply station in northernmost Dierjia.
Next, the train would have to travel across a long stretch of desolate land. When crossing the traditional line of actual control between Dierjia and Basman, it would raise the power of its runic array to a relatively high level to pass through quickly. Only after crossing another stretch of wasteland and reaching a city in southern Basman would it be able to resupply.
The total distance was nearly two thousand kilometers, and the train would very likely have to stop along the way-for instance, to deploy a Ritual Array on the spot and shelter from a storm.
Because of the weather, track conditions, and other possible unforeseen incidents, its average speed over this stretch might be only ten to twenty kilometers per hour.
Even so, the railway remained the most efficient means of reaching the Sacred Mountain.
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