"I..."
Faced with her mirror self, who seemed to have been prepared for this all along, Angel found herself at a loss for words.
After discovering that the No Darkness Cross refused to remain quietly alongside a Beyonder characteristic, she had immediately recalled that only angel-level power could shatter and reassemble Beyonder characteristics. She had also remembered how her former weapons, the Good Luck revolver and the Knight Bracelet, had inexplicably released their Beyonder characteristics directly after being destroyed.
The former had triggered a sixteenfold damage boost before being utterly destroyed by the Dissolving Ray made from a Calamity charm, directly releasing an uncorrupted Beyonder characteristic. The latter had been damaged during the battle beneath Trier, in the area where a Conqueror giant roamed amid contamination and seals from various powers. It, too, had rapidly released its original Beyonder characteristic.
Both incidents had involved the power of the City of Calamity.
Perhaps the power of this sefirah could suppress the No Darkness Cross's unruly nature, making it behave itself alongside other Beyonder characteristics and separate them into different Sequences, one level at a time?
"Your guess is correct. Here, any Sealed Artifact or Beyonder characteristic outside the Demoness and Hunter pathways will be severely suppressed. Only by reaching Sequence 2 and attaining the status of an angel can they resist this power."
Angel's Mirror Person spoke in a tone that was all too familiar to her.
No wonder only angels have the power to shatter and reassemble Beyonder characteristics. Only at Sequence 2 can they fully control the power within those characteristics... At that stage, even the No Darkness Cross's negative effect of gradually extracting the Beyonder characteristics of anyone who touches it probably won't work...
As she pondered this, Angel took out the cross covered in bronze patina and