Holding the cat, Shade glanced back at the moonlight outside the window:
"I couldn't find that relic during the day. It seems it wasn't just a matter of bad timing."
Amid the whistle and chimes, the rotating Brass Destiny Ring slowly emerged from the depths of the steam mist. The Core Ling Rune Silver Moon shone against the wall, but after waiting for quite a while, nothing appeared.
"Could I have been wrong? Is this not how it works this time?"
Perhaps you could try a little more.
"You mean, since it's the Source of Chaos, I should use the Yellow Moon Spirit Rune?"
Shade asked in his heart, but he did not immediately attempt it. The thin moonlight caused the shadow of his Destiny Ring to be reflected on the wall.
"Oh?"
He looked at the perfect circle on the wall, as well as his own silhouette piercing its center like a vertical bar, and felt that it resembled some interesting mystical symbol.
An idea suddenly came to him. He shifted his feet slightly while moving the Destiny Ring behind him up and down, until the center of the ring's reflection on the wall aligned with where the ink stain had originally been. Then Shade crouched slightly, bringing his eyes level with the center of the circle.
This way, the moonlight from outside entered the room, passed through the Core Ling Rune at the center of the Destiny Ring behind Shade, and shone upon the back of his head, casting the reflections of both his head and the Destiny Ring itself onto the wall.
As Shade carefully adjusted his position until both his own height and the Destiny Ring's reflection on the wall reached a certain fixed alignment, the black shadow stabilized on the wall and gradually turned into