"In other words, this Ghost Domain Stone had always been under your control?" Napoli asked.
The Mirror-Holding Banshee nodded.
A flicker of doubt passed through Napoli's eyes. "Then why did it happen to go wrong at this particular time? It even affected you?"
In a sense, the Mirror-Holding Banshee was the owner of the Ghost Domain Stone. Yet now, its owner could not control it? Exactly where had something gone wrong?
"I had just finished refining a batch of artifact blanks. As usual, I absorbed the aura within the Ghost Domain Stone to restore my energy."
"But after absorbing only a little, I felt as though a gauze-like fog had shrouded my thoughts."
Whenever her thoughts became hazy and sluggish, the Mirror-Holding Banshee knew that she was about to lose her mind.
"I immediately stopped absorbing the Ghost Domain Stone's aura, then went to the cooling pool and waited to regain my clarity..."
"Then, when I woke up again, it was just now."
In other words, the Ghost Domain Stone's "abnormal change" had occurred while the Mirror-Holding Banshee had lost her mind. Even she herself did not know what had happened during that time.
"Would you actively activate the Ghost Domain Stone when you were in a mindless state?" Napoli asked. He suspected that the deranged Mirror-Holding Banshee might have done something to it.
The Mirror-Holding Banshee shook her head. "The aura within the Ghost Domain Stone is similar to inert power. Drawing its aura requires a certain degree of logic."
"And after I lose my mind, I am in a state without logic. It would be impossible for me to do anything to the Ghost Domain Stone."
As an analogy, absorbing the aura in the Ghost Domain Stone required solving a logical calculation, something like "1+1=2." Though such a