No way back

While Elisabetha was dealing with the newcomers inside the domain, Rain tried to wake up the four prisoners, but he failed to do so. After he checked their bodies with magic, he confirmed that they had been drugged…

"They were probably knocked out as soon as they arrived in the city," Rain thought. "Then drugged to avoid letting them resist… the question is, why they didn't do the same to me? And why were they carrying them to this forest?"

Rain said things about Cthulhu, but he was only joking at the time… but there was something definitely dangerous in the forest. Rain kept healing those four, but nothing happened. Even his medical knowledge wasn't sufficient in that kind of situation… so perhaps the drugs had been crafted to ignore the effects of healing magic.

"This might be beyond my current magic skills since the people here had countless years to develop ways to keep people under control in these situations," Rain thought.