It only took a few days for me to get out of the infirmary and I was the last in my group to recover as I was the one who had the most injuries and they were a little more serious. I ended up not missing a day of class as the week after the test was a week that there wouldn't even be a class.
This was planned by the institute for various reasons such as giving time for students to recover from injuries caused by the matrix, to assess those who will be considered unfit to continue studying, for those who have lost a brother or family member to participate in its funeral without even a concern and finally calculate the results of students who passed the test.
Considering that I only saw half of the students who got injured as they were split into two different wards as there was not enough space to treat all students at the same time, I can only speculate that the number of students must be slightly higher. half, we not only had deaths and failures during the test, but several students were injured to a degree that their recovery becomes complicated.
Many who have suffered serious injuries will have to undergo a very painful and expensive treatment to recover their bodies and not all are able to go through this without their minds suffering trauma and that is if they have not already suffered psychological trauma from being mutilated during the test of the matrix.
It is difficult for a warrior or warrior to have a strong and resistant mind to withstand the pain of losing a member of his body, and after that pain recovers without his spirit being shaken, the institute will not waste its resources or time to treat those which she judges incapable of regaining full functionality of her body and mind, these students will be asked to withdraw from the institute.
I was lucky not only to pass the test but to come out of it in one piece, but because not one of my friends died or failed the test, I would be very sad to lose one of them. Spending so many months living with them ended up making me care about them and that's not exactly a good and normal thing, more in a world they can end up dead if they have a little bad luck on a mission or when they're traveling and it's hard to connect with friendships so strongly.
Just imagining the number of dangers, we are exposed to on a daily basis, I don't even know if I have the courage to invest a lot in a love relationship or simply friendship and it's very difficult to leave people behind, even if I have a lot of practice in this unfortunately the pain doesn't get smaller when you suffer her several times.
I spend the next few days quietly waiting for the results and unfortunately my only companion is Wulfgar. My companions are spending this time with their families, enjoying the break, but of course unfortunately the Menfis family is holding two funerals for those who are paid off to their family or are members of a secondary branch of the family so Hilda and Ingredi are not having a festive mood.
So, I spent my time training the basics and spending my time playing with Wulfgar who is growing really fast and with it draining more savings to strengthen our bond I spend a lot of time with him even when I'm not playing with him, I still try to keep in touch with he.
I've been reading fewer books in the library and without bringing them to my room to read them while I pet Wulfgar, even when I'm meditating, I leave him in my lap this will only be possible when he's still small. The more he grows, the more difficult and inconvenient it will be to work in our bond as he is much smarter than a normal animal or magical beast should be at his current size my openness to take advantage of his ignorance and make him very attached to me and smaller than it should be.
So, I decided to focus on our bond I just hope he doesn't get too used to getting stuck on me, when he's big it will become less pleasant to be crushed by his big body especially if he decides he wants to stay in my room when he's already the size to be able to be a mount, my bedroom door isn't that big for him to pass through.
After the test I didn't feel much difference in my body, it's usually normal to feel an improvement when you go through a crisis like I did the matrix test, but I didn't feel much difference as both my core is reaching the limit and my control over my aura and elemental energies is way above what would be normal it becomes much more complicated and difficult to have a big boost in my abilities, but i still have a solid improvement after surviving the matrix.
I visited Professor Frey to ask him about the matrix that was used this time, I am really curious to know its properties and at what level it is located in the profession of a rune master. To my lack of surprise, she is a considered level three matrix, but this does not reflect her difficulty and without the ingredients used in her creation as well as her capacity for illusion.
She is not able to create or support the power associated with level four she alone and able to handle the destructive power of level three, even though it is several level three illusions, when I asked the teacher how illusions affect the body of those who then in the matrix since monsters, animals and magical beasts are illusions.
So, I received a lecture for a few hours on the relationship of illusion to reality, an illusion alone cannot hurt a person it can only deceive a person's senses and even how real it can seem it alone and able to deceive their mind if your mind ends up harming your body the cause is in the illusion's creativity rather than its potency and most low-level illusion matrices end up using some offensive rune arrays that allow them to attack the bodies of those within the matrix.
The magicians or warriors who have the illusion element are considered weak and strong at the same time as the curse element the illusion element has certain rules that its users have to obey. As if the illusionist doesn't have enough power to penetrate their target's mind their illusions will be useless and this usually happens when they try to use their illusions on a higher level enemy than theirs without outside help which is usually a support or enhancement skill , or a tool to strengthen the illusion and just as it may also be that the illusionist has a much higher mental power than his level should have, but without this it is basically impractical to make illusions in an enemy stronger than you.
But of course, we are looking at an enemy who has a strong and trained mind if he has mental weaknesses like trauma or simply a weaker mind, they can be fooled by illusions that come from someone of a lower level. And just like the curse element, illusion is a great weapon when used on a large number of lower cultivated enemies and very difficult to capture or kill an illusionist depending on numbers rather than quality of fighters and mages.
Illusions focused on a single target are stronger, more altering to influence a small aria and not much more difficult than channeling them into a single target, according to Professor Frey most matrices tend to penetrate their invaders' minds. by sound rather than the light that the eyes absorb which is the form mages and warriors prefer to use during direct fights.
The matrices rely on sound because it is easier, it requires less energy than using light and why it is easier to hide, as the target is surrounded by the matrix it must be enchanted the moment it enters the matrix so the way the illusion is transported must to be kept active all the time and to hide the light that a matrix would use to affect its target is complicated so the best solution was to use sounds.
How easy it is to make the sounds do not go beyond the matrix boundary and it is easier for the target to enter without noticing anything into a matrix as the matrix sound does not need to be hidden nor loud but charged with elementary energy. Even the illusory matrix used in the test relies much more on sound to affect students than does light, fog, and a dark layer that is only used to frighten students if they were to simply step into a circle etched on the ground would be rather annoying and without creativity and waiting students could see students inside the matrix behaving weirdly.
And from what the teacher told me that students outside the matrix who are waiting for their turn in the illusory matrix are enticed by the matrix even before entering it. In the fog that is visible from the outside the matrix creates various formats to simulate fighting and it releases combat sounds and pain sounds from both animals, monsters and students.
All of this is done to further scare the students and thus make the test even more difficult. The person who creates this matrix was really very creative or simply had the robe to screw with other people according to the teacher many of the professionals who draw these illusory matrices have a hobby of scaring and harping on people and that's why they specialize in this type runic matrix and it takes a very creative mind and a violent and cruel sense of humor to stand out in the illusory matrix market.