[In the merchandise booth, you saw the Merch Seller.]
[The Merch Seller looked to be a small figure wearing a black hood that covered all his appearance. The shadow cast by his hood seemed to obscure his facial features as well.]
[You didn’t care what he looked like or if he wasn’t human as long as you could buy the good stuff from him.]
{Hint Prompt: This is the real Merch Seller. One thing to keep in mind: decline any barter offers made by the Merch Seller, or else you will trigger his rule attack mechanisms if you barter with him. Always ask for the price of every merchandise you are interested in, and always pay with amusement park coins.}
[After confirming that the Merch Seller in front of you was indeed the Merch Seller, you no longer hesitated and walked towards him.]
[As you got closer, you finally saw the merchandise he was selling. They all looked indescribable, like some sort of amalgamation of different merchandise or items put together.]
[Because of that, you didn’t bother with its appearance and instead, used Hint Prompt on every one of them. After your survey, a few particular items stood out.]
{Hint Prompt: Upon using this item called "To One’s Sorrow", you will be less likely to encounter rule horrors and props. But... isn’t it sorrowful not to meet them and make friends with them? At least that’s what the creator of this item believed.}
{Hint Prompt: Upon using this item called "Two Kill Mockery", you will be able to use these two bullets twice, allowing you to kill any props that trigger its rule attack mechanism. Its rule attack mechanism involves allowing the props or anomalous creatures to hold mockery or disdain towards you in their hearts or minds.}
{Hint Prompt: Upon using this item called "Head Start", you will be able to throw this head into the air and immediately gain a few hours of head start, skipping some of the mazes. However, the teleportation of this would be based on your progress and accuracy in solving the mazes.
In other words, if you did very poorly in your previous explorations of the mazes, then the head start given by this will screw you to a point of no return. In your case, you can use this with confidence, as your exploration and maze-solving accuracy has always been at 100%.}
{Hint Prompt: Upon using this item called "Inbijiburu", you can crush this crystal-like orb, and it will grant you the ability to temporarily become invisible. While you are invisible, you are less likely to be detected by the rule horrors and props.
As long as you don’t trigger their rule attack mechanisms while in the invisible state, you will be able to avoid almost all of the rule horrors and props in the rule horror maze. This can be stacked with To One’s Sorrow.
The temporary invisible granted has a duration based on your Spirit attribute, so in your case, this will last for ten hours. But be warned that the more you use this, the more your existence will disappear.}
[After seeing that merchandise, you immediately purchased it from the Merch Seller along with a few other items of merchandise with the rest of your amusement park coins.]
[However, for safety measures, you still left yourself with 500 amusement park coins in case you needed them.]
[Just when you were about to leave, the Merch Seller stopped you, "Wait, I still have some merchandise that you might be interested in. Of course, it isn’t for free."]
[Curious what tricks this Merch Seller had up his sleeves, you paused and asked, "What is it then? How much?"]
[The Merch Seller rubbed his palms and spoke ambiguously, "It’s a really powerful item. In exchange for it, I don’t want amusement park coins, but the corpse of a rule horror at Peak Platinum rank."]
[In response to the Merch Seller’s words, you didn’t let him have time to explain, immediately using To One’s Sorrow, Inbijiburu, and Head Start at the same time.]
[After using that merchandise, the Merch Seller could no longer see your figure, having both disappeared and had your presence lowered, and also teleported way farther into the maze.]
[After you teleported, you cursed inwardly, ’This Rule Horror Maze truly has no good people within it. In the end, the Merch Seller still attempted to trick me into bartering with him."]
[You knew from Hint Prompt that the Merch Seller still indeed has something really powerful that he didn’t want to sell.]
[Although it was possible to buy it with amusement park coins, the amount of amusement park coins needed would take you an estimated seven hours’ worth of grinding rule horrors and props.]
[Since you didn’t have Jade’s Equivalent Exchange innate talent assisting you, you didn’t want to take that long, even if that merchandise could boost your success rate for completing this rule horror maze by a whopping 30%.]
[After all, your exploration accuracy was still at 100%. Only those who had made mistakes earlier and would need that merchandise to patch up their errors would take the time to buy it from the Merch Seller.]
[In your case, you didn’t particularly need it, so you didn’t hesitate to leave the Merch Seller.]
[After using all that merchandise, you continued your exploration of the Rule Horror Maze.]
[This time, you could feel the effects of To One’s Sorrow and Inbijiburu as you rarely encountered rule horrors and props obstructing your way.]
[Because of that, you speedrun the Rule Horror Maze until you were eventually near the exit.]
[However, as you were approaching the exit, you immediately received a Hint Prompt.]
{Hint Prompt: Use Two Kill Mockery at 12 o’clock and 2 o’clock immediately!}
[Following the Hint Prompt’s guidance, you didn’t hesitate to use them as those two bullets immediately flew off to where you directed them to attack.]
[As soon as they flew off, they hit and killed something, which you believed to be rule horrors who could turn invisible.]
{Hint Prompt: Now run as fast as you can while using Break A Leg! The exit is just straight ahead!}