Shade continued forward. After the fourth turn, he should have returned to the corridor with the stairs leading to the ground floor, but the first room number he saw was still "Morgue Room 9," and there were no stairs beside the corridor leading upward.
He stood there in a daze for a moment, communicating briefly with the Witch Cat through Mind Reading. Then, following the usual practice from stories when strange things happened, he rummaged through his pocket, found an empty bottle, and tossed it beside the wall.
When he turned the corner again, the bottle had vanished, yet the room number on one side of the corridor was still "Morgue Room 9."
This time, Shade did not stop. He continued onward without any intention of opening the doors around him. Then, after his thirteenth turn, although the room number on his right remained unchanged, two more people had appeared in the corridor. At the end of the corridor behind them, a road sign stood in the middle of the passage.
The two newcomers were both men, and both were Ring Arcanists. One looked quite young, perhaps only just an adult, while the other looked like a middle-aged man. They were probably both mid-ring arcanists. Upon seeing Shade, the middle-aged man immediately asked in confusion:
"Can you explain how you did that?"
"How did I do what?"
Shade asked in return. The middle-aged man replied:
"Keeper of Secrets Level Relic Thirteenth Alley can only be used in terrain with repetition. Once activated, it turns a certain area into a looping space. Each time someone re-enters the loop created by the Relic at the end of a cycle, there is a ninety percent chance of encountering a supernatural event related to the location. If a supernatural phenomenon occurs, you need to