Based on Lloyd's current understanding of Saints—though not entirely comprehensive—he could clearly sense that sitting in that position was no walk in the park. Practically everyone who reached that level had a screw loose... or, more accurately, practically all of them suffered from some serious mental illness. Naturally, his own "childhood sweetheart" could not escape this fate either.
After all, they had to continuously resist mental pollution over the long stretches of time while struggling to maintain their sanity and humanity. Without coming up with some method, it was obviously impossible to keep going.
Through bits and pieces gleaned from casual chats with Hildina, Lloyd deduced that the Sage of Wisdom and the Manifested Saint—those two "mental patients"—seemed to alleviate their psychological pressure through dissociation and severe autism. Meanwhile, the Redemption and the Lex—those two "wooden-headed fools"—seemed to blindly follow so-called prophecies?
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