The method for dealing with Black Rabbit was actually quite simple.
I had spread a large amount of radiance through the air beforehand, but its concentration was low, too low to see with the naked eye. Ordinary exposure probably wouldn't cause any problems.
However, she had used Time Acceleration.
In a short span of time, she had come into extensive contact with the radiance in the air and inhaled it-dozens or even a hundred times more than under normal circumstances. Though it wasn't enough to trigger an annihilation reaction, it was enough to destabilize the darkness inside her.
The more she accelerated, the worse those symptoms became...
However, my attempt to absorb her ultimately failed.
Black Rabbit, with her severed leg, vanished in a momentary distortion, leaving me grasping at nothing.
With Time Acceleration, she could even shorten the windup for point-to-point teleportation, disappearing without a trace in an instant. If she wanted to flee, I really couldn't catch her. I hadn't managed to retrieve the Morning Star Crystal, either...
Still, now that she had undergone Sanctification, she probably couldn't stay inside this building anymore, could she?
After all, this place was saturated with highly concentrated darkness, far denser than the contamination in the Old District had been.
Of course, I wasn't feeling too great myself.
Having driven off the guard, I turned my attention back to the ocher, stone-colored door. Countless cables and pipes fed into its frame, though I had no idea what they did.
All the secrets lay behind this door, yet I had no idea how to get inside. There was no handle or keyhole, nor any control panel beside it. If not for the seam down the middle, I might have mistaken the thing for a wall.
There was no other choice. I'd have to