According to military regulations, anyone infected by the Artifact Disaster needed to enter the Spiritualization Pool for purification.
As a spiritual virus, the Artifact Disaster affected the rationality of infected Spirit Masters to varying degrees, gradually turning them violent and bloodthirsty.
At the same time, the Spiritual Artifacts could develop autonomous consciousness and might not be under the control of their owners.
If someone knowingly failed to report and chose not to purify, though it wouldn't result in a death sentence, they would be stripped of their military ranks and imprisoned for several years.
After all, history had proved that most people infected by the Artifact Disaster couldn't control their inner violence and murderous intent, eventually becoming a killing machine; they might even be dominated by the mutated Spiritual Artifacts.
