It seems middle school geometry is still valuable...
After getting off the carriage that only operates within the inner palace, Leon looked at the outer wall of the sleeping quarters, now coated with a layer of iron, and once again confirmed his earlier judgment.
The abnormal object causing the changes should be in the palace, and its location is roughly where I calculated it to be—most likely right in front of me in these sleeping quarters.
Outside in the squares and streets of the palace, only the "living beings" like pedestrians and horses were affected, but inside the inner courtyard of the palace, even "dead objects" like the walls and buildings have started to become iron-like.
Although the stone path underfoot still feels like stone, the floating dust and grime on its surface have, at some point, turned into dark brown rust marks.
