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There's the possibility that being this an extreme case of danger and him being unconscious ( so in between the reality and the limbo), his body activate the magic by instinct like it happened in the park when Axel tried to hit him with the ball and he showed inhuman reflexes.Hospital coma is unlikely. El Coyote gave them a time limit and Cari himself said the Pirate server storyline will continue in 0.8. If he jumps into Eternum just as he jumped to it back in 0.6 without the headset then he still has to tell Nan to attend to him back in the real and go solo with the quest (or if he lies, he still has to explain to her why Nova didn't log back with him AND THEN tell her about his current state once the quest is over...which won't be a good look for him and will likely infuriate and horrify Nan).
Pulling Caly into the real at this point is one of the theories put forth by people on Discord, and I also read one that said that it could lead to a fitting negative consequence for Orion if doing so disrupts Caly's ritual and she is reduced to an even worse state once she crosses into the rule (but not reduced enough to not be able to heal Orion), causing a rift in their relationship that Orion will have to mend as part of the penance for his arrogance. The only thing I don't like about this theory is that it dumps the consequences of Orion's fuck-up to a person who didn't ask for it. Like yeah, sure, Caly is arrogant and all but a better means to humble herself is to be bitten by her own actions rather than the actions of others, as it would only serve to reset her growing fondness for Orion instead of being of use to her character growth.
Personally, my money's on Orion being sent to Limbo upon death and getting trapped there for a long while. Idriel's words about the place is that it's separated from time and space, meaning in theory you can essentially stay there indefinitely and then return to your own time without missing a minute or two. It's heavily implied that Orion's powers have some connection to Idriel, and likely by extension Limbo as well, so him being there could be a good excuse for a character development event (where he humbles himself) and/or an extended lore dump on Idriel's backstory and why Orion has a connection to her. Could potentially lead to his power growing as a result that it "bleeds back" into the real and he uses it to break out from Limbo and heal himself.
That, or that mysterious letter from the Syndicate is revealed to be a sort of one-time-only-get-out-of-death-card for Orion that he uses while being in Limbo, healing him. Or he drags Caly in limbo and they get out of there together. Again, lots of options for the horny bugger that doesn't lead to a hospital visit and sex scene with a nurse that's present in just about every other AVN that I can think of whenever the MC finds himself in need of medical attention.
Thus in this case while trapped in limbo and maybe being scolded by Idriel and making amend his body start the healing process or slowing the bleeding, giving him enough time to be cured in the "real" world, while as you correctly said humbling/growing himself in the limbo.
Cari is following loosely the legend of Orion and him being a titan means he's a demi god, so it's possible that this will happen too ( just my opinion so take it for what it's worth).
Another possible character that could intervene instead of Cali is Chop Chop that, to me at least, is more and more looking like Aephestus, the god that saved Orion once when he "lost his eyes".
Instead of taking this literally we could think of this as saving his life ( though he already did with the pendant of destiny inthe Andromeda server).
Just my two cents, nothing more nothing less...
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