It took a long time... Some of the faster residents with speed-influencing powers helped take people past the Dead Zone to test its effects, and others stayed behind with their heavy machinery and weaponry to tackle the castle. I heard it went down in a couple hours, actually...

[ah, Uru ;;] ...That's why I worry for the townspeople. But if they were residents, once, and the castle brainwashed them to think as they do now... why wouldn't it bring them back after death? It must have gone to great amounts of effort to make them believe they've always lived here. It seems... silly, to be so careless with their lives...