Before the test at the Den of Fairies, the examiners had mages and warriors choose from separate boxes to determine their testing locations. Cassian had initially assumed this meant the two groups would be separated. However, when the time came, he noticed both mages and warriors entering the same teleportation gates. That discrepancy had already raised questions in his mind.
But now, as he roamed the Den of Fairies, he realized something even stranger—he hadn't encountered a single mage. Instead, the warriors he came across were numerous, and many had fallen in front of him. Yet, inexplicably, some of these very warriors reappeared later, alive and fighting as though they had merely rested and recovered.
