Rabbit Girl briefly explained the Wonderland prompt, then resumed her actions.
Following Angel's instructions, she moved through the nine-square grid like an elegant fish, gathering energy gemstones of different attributes and placing them in new positions.
The moment she picked up a gemstone, gas began bubbling continuously from beneath the pool. Countless bubbles rose like strings of pearl pendants.
All around her was the gurgling sound of bubbling water.
As she picked up more and more gemstones, the bubbles multiplied as well. The entire pool seemed to have been brought to a boil, churning violently.
Yet this "boiling" was not accompanied by any rise in temperature. Rather, the energy within the pool had begun to turn chaotic.
Aside from producing vast numbers of bubbles, this energy turbulence also caused those within it to experience hallucinations...
Rabbit Girl now felt as though dark shadows had appeared all around her. They stared at her with narrow, scarlet eyes brimming with malice.
Some of the shadows even struggled to transform from flat shapes into three-dimensional forms, trying to crawl out and seize Rabbit Girl.
An ordinary person would probably have fled in terror at this sight.
But none of it could disturb Rabbit Girl's composure. Not to mention that Angel had warned her about "hallucinations" beforehand—even if he had not, these savage shadow phantoms would not have affected her in the slightest.
To put it bluntly, no matter how grotesque and twisted they were, they were not as terrifying as her true form.
With that mindset, Rabbit Girl did not even spare the shadows a glance. She continued methodically transferring the energy gemstones within the nine-square grid.
Once the transfer was more than halfway complete, the bubbles at the bottom of the pool gradually began to lessen.
When the final gemstone was successfully