"Corrupted souls, fallen earth, and the event-type Keeper of Secrets Level relic, Noble House."
The bearded man spoke as he sat in the snowy ground and looked at Shade. He himself was a six-ring warlock and had been seriously injured this time. Even if Shade did not restrain them, they would have found it difficult to escape from him.
"An event-type relic. Explain it simply."
The Cultist nodded, supporting himself on the snow surface with one hand. When he looked towards the fenced gate, fear still lingered on his face:
"You can understand it this way: the ghosts in Wosente Manor are now controlled by an ancient ghost from the Fifth Epoch. They still remember their lives, but believe themselves to be members of some great noble family at an unknown point in the Fifth Epoch. As long as one enters, men are assigned the identity of servants. If they cannot find a way to recall their own identity, they will become slaves forever, serving in this haunted manor."
"I see."
With that explanation, Shade recalled this relic. He had heard Doctor Schneider mention it in casual conversation:
"Though it is Keeper of Secrets Level, it basically does not affect the outside world at all. All its effects are confined to a single house. It is like a farce set in the previous epoch, but correspondingly, unless someone intrudes from outside, it is difficult to discover what is happening within. Moreover, the relic will not grant the affected people any power. The only difficulty is not forgetting one's identity. I remember that the method of expelling the relic is to find the ghost that truly came from the Fifth Epoch among all those ghosts. Thus, the larger the setting and the more ghosts there are, the more troublesome it becomes.