'The only student who passed the public recruitment?' Vale repeated in his mind as he recalled his last year's attempt to enroll.
Lisa certainly achieved an impressive feat and everyone in the classroom knows this as well. If she has a common background, it means that she drank the Darkness Possession potion which has a very high chance of death.
For them, the act of force-feeding the potion may have been acceptable if they are still in a state of war against the other "righteous" factions but it is different now. During that time, according to their parents or elders, they would have to "collect" various children from many towns and cities to have them drink the deadly Darkness Possession. No one thinks too much about its danger since they are at war.
They would turn these people into their elite soldiers after nurturing them for years… if they ever survived.