Falling for his warm touch despite his usual coldness, she loved him only to be disappointed and betrayed in the end. When love turns to darkness, it festers to be poisonous and consumes the soul. The naïve Arabella evolved. *** “Thank you for becoming my wife,” was her cold husband’s last words before he died, coupled with a smile that had never before graced his lips. Not on their wedding day. And not even at the birth of their only child. Emperor Ferdinand, someone Arabella loved so much, killed their son. She became a villainess and vowed revenge for her beloved child. For a decade, she used everything she could to make Ferdinand pay. Until finally… he fell to ruin! With her revenge complete, Arabella's life soon ended with her dead husband in her arms. But fate wasn’t done playing with her. All of a sudden, she was back two decades ago right after their wedding. Was it a curse or a blessing? It didn’t matter. Because there is only one thing she needed to do. “I will ruin you in this lifetime too!” This was her hateful promise to herself upon realizing she was reborn. But in her second life, Arabella was unexpectedly bestowed a gift to uncover the truth. Who was wrong and who was right? Only time will tell.
Odette had been helping their rescued people so she was already experienced in these tasks.
However, Odette's older brothers had forbidden her from being in the first step of the process since they feared it would break her warm and kind heart if she saw exactly what their people looked like as slaves in Crux.
It was when they still had fearful and wary eyes that were on the brink of losing hope. Further, they were still sickly, filthy, and heavily injured here and there and had festering wounds or ugly scars.
The healing magic Alwin and the others used were so potent it usually heals most wounds and alleviates malnutrition since their mana affects a person's body deeply, down to every fiber.
Hence, those in the second steps were no longer as weak or ill as those who had just been teleported except for those who had much worse situations.