Light filled my body. Opponents on the level of Shadow Soldiers were nothing worth mentioning.
No...
These tiny fragments of darkness could be converted easily. I didn't even need to touch them. As long as I connected my light to them, the shadows underwent a fundamental transformation.
Which meant these Shadow Soldiers would actually make me stronger...
Based on the rules I'd worked out so far.
The more darkness I converted, the greater the total amount of light, and the stronger I became.
The "total amount" here didn't mean the light inside me, but the sum of all the light converted from darkness. Those magical girls who had undergone "Sanctification" hadn't given me their light, yet their very existence made me stronger...
Unbelievable, but that was the truth.
Had Aldebaran and my other self stopped me from using Sanctification because they were worried this power would run rampant like the darkness?
The number of Light Soldiers following me kept growing.
From the original ten, their ranks had gradually expanded to nearly fifty. They marched behind me in an imposing, perfectly ordered formation, illuminating the passage. Even Mom couldn't help commenting:
"Hey, are we heading into a gang fight?"
Once we left the station, only two passages separated us from the core area.
"I saw her! A-Liu went down ten minutes ago! But a few Shadow Soldiers were chasing her down there. She looked like she was in a real hurry!"
Mom used Memory Tracking to check the situation in the core chamber.
"Yeah, let's head down too."
There was no reason Liuzi couldn't beat a few Shadow Soldiers. She must have discovered something, which was why she'd ignored those small fry and rushed straight toward the core area...
"Ugh?!"
Yet at the bottom of the spiral staircase, darkness spread unchecked.