Angel still remembered that when the phantom clone recounted Hilda's experience, she had mentioned that when Hilda entered the Knight's Castle for the first time, she ignored the choice given by the tuxedo butler and instead bypassed him.
Search the lobby.
After searching, Siluda obtained a rope, a flower, and a water cup. These three were special sacrifices used in the ceremony.
At that time, Hiluda did not trigger the "spiritual transformation ritual" after obtaining these things.
Are these three things ownerless?
Obviously not.
These items are placed in the hall, they must have owners, and the owner is probably the Ghost Rider from the castle.
Then why did Hilda not trigger the spiritual transformation ritual when she obtained these three items?
Could it be that this is actually a ploy to get you into a trap?
Deliberately let Hilda get some benefits first to lower her alertness?
"You look troubled? Are you worried about Gleipnir's divination?"
While Angel was thinking, Laplace's voice came to his ears.
Angel: "It has nothing to do with divination, I just discovered a very strange place."
Angel's words made everyone at the tea table look over curiously: "Strange? What's so strange?"
Angel didn't hide what he was thinking, and directly told what he discovered.
After hearing this, everyone fell into thinking for a while: There seemed to be some problems with what Angel said... Why was the spiritual transformation ritual not activated when taking items in the hall?
After Laplace thought for a moment, he said: "Whether it was deliberately lowering Hilda's alertness as you said, I don't know."
"However, in my opinion, there are two possibilities."
Everyone looked up.
Laplace: "Either, the Knight's Castle actually has no owner. Or, the owner of the castle doesn't care about these things."
The so-called "Knight's Castle has no owner" means that the housekeeper lied and the Ghost Rider is not the owner of the castle; precisely because the castle has no owner, the public items in the castle that Hilda takes are considered useless.
The main thing will not activate the spiritual transformation ritual.
However, in this case... Angel personally feels that the possibility is relatively low.
Angel himself couldn't explain why, but he just felt that the definition of "master" was a bit too broad.
According to the butler, the current owner of the castle is the Ghost Rider.
Even if the Ghost Rider relied on strength or trickery to forcefully occupy this castle, from the perspective of ownership, he can still be called the owner of the castle.
Unless, the "owner" here refers specifically to the creator of the castle.
As for the second situation mentioned by Laplace, "The owner of the castle doesn't care about what Siluda took away", if you dig deeper, it actually means that the owner of the castle and the "NPCs" in the castle are not the same group.
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Is this possible?
Angel thinks, yes.
Because Siluda had heard a conversation between two servants in the mirror game before. The content of their conversation was very vague, but the butler was mentioned in it.
"Butler...rebellious..."
"Killing him... would be against the rules..."
From this brief conversation, it was revealed that the servants and the butler did not seem to be dealing with each other. They might even want to kill the butler.
And the butler is obviously on the same side as Ghost Rider.
Otherwise, why would the butler convey the Ghost Rider's greetings whenever someone enters the castle?
Since the butler and the owner of the castle are in the same group, and the other NPCs want to kill the butler, doesn't it prove that the NPCs are in the same camp, and the butler and the Ghost Rider are in the same camp.
Nowadays, it is known that NPC will induce intruders to use owned things in order to meet the conditions of the spiritual transformation ceremony.
Then the steward knight camp, which is opposite to the NPC camp, may do exactly the opposite to the NPC camp.
In other words, the butler and Ghost Rider camps are likely to have good intentions towards the intruders?
After hearing Angel's analysis, everyone pondered for a moment, and the phantom clone said: "So, the housekeeper had good intentions in letting the intruder go see the Ghost Rider in the first place?"
Angel: "It's possible."
Precisely because the steward knights had good intentions, they did not stop the intruders from collecting the sacrifices in the hall, nor did they trigger the spiritual transformation ceremony.
This makes sense.
"Of course, it's not necessarily all good intentions. There may be deeper malice."
The NPC camp and the butler knight camp are not integrated. It may be that the butler knight camp is opposite to them, or it may be more evil than them.
Which one it is specifically, they still have no way to tell.
Unless, try it again.
Phantom clone: ​​"Well, let me go over now and send a message to Grandma Longcrow to try to see the Ghost Rider and see what changes will happen."
Angel subconsciously wanted to say, "Would it be too much trouble for you?"
But then I thought about it, the phantom clone was walking directly in the shadow, and it would only take a few seconds to get to the place where the blood disaster occurred.
For her, it was just a blink of an eye; thinking of this, Angel no longer dissuaded her.
The phantom clone turned around and disappeared without any hesitation.
About two minutes later, the phantom clone returned to the tea table again: "I have already told Grandma Longcrow. According to Grandma Longcrow, she has actually recently begun to let the human try to contact the Ghost Rider."
That lucky and unfortunate human from the Southern Region has been wandering around the castle for the past few days. He didn't go to get anything, but... listened to the corner.
For example, the NPC dialogue of "Butler...rebellion..." that Hilda heard before.
These conversations were previously considered by Siluda as "clues to solve the case."
It wasn't until she entered the mirror game that she discovered that these conversations were actually NPC conversations, or murmurings to herself.
Although NPCs must play their roles well and cannot do behaviors that are inconsistent with the character's personality; muttering to themselves or communicating with companions are in line with the character's personality, so they are reasonable.
Some of these NPC conversations or murmurs may be unimportant, but some may very well tell some secrets about the castle.
By piecing these secret clues together, you may be able to see the truth behind the castle.
This is also the reason why Granny Longcrow asked the human to listen to the corner.
Phantom clone: ​​"According to the statistics that the human listened to, he found that almost most of the people in the castle wanted to assassinate the butler."
"The reason seems to be that the butler is preventing them from doing something."
"Now it seems that Angel's guess is correct. The housekeeper is probably trying to stop them from inducing the intruder to use the owned object in order to activate the spiritual transformation ritual."
The phantom clone paused and continued: "Grandma Longcrow also vaguely feels this way. When I mentioned it just now, she immediately decided to try to contact the housekeeper and the Ghost Rider."
"However, I guess we won't be able to get the results immediately."
After all, Grandma Longcrow was at Blood Disaster at the moment. Hilda and the human from the Southern Territory stayed at the research base.
It's not that Granny Longcrow doesn't take them with her, but if they come together, they will probably be suppressed by the blood disaster talent immediately...
Grandma Longcrow's bloodline level is very high, so she doesn't have to worry about the talent of blood disaster. Siluda and the human from the southern region are different.
Phantom clone: ​​"Also, aren't you interested in the creator of the Mirror Game? I told Granny Longcrow about the situation, and she said she would help find it. When she has information, she will notify me through the Blood Disaster Ritual."
As long as the "player" enters the mirror game and does not touch the owner's objects or take those ritual sacrifices, there will be no problem for the time being.
Without triggering the spiritual transformation ritual, Granny Longcrow will try her best to let the human being search for information about the creator in the mirror game.
Angel nodded, it would be better if Grandma Longcrow could find out the information.
…
While waiting for the divination results, Angel also made a solo trip to Yinsen Space.
Because Laplace told him that the prophet Jota had arrived.
Angel couldn't let Jota wait for him, so he took a step back and left the Yinsen space to meet with the prophet Jota.
After meeting Jota, Jota handed a translucent oval crystal to Angel.
To be continued...