Iridescent Spirit - Chapter 51 Release That Brain

Jae Farley pushed past the crowd with Iris, Bridget, and Philip in tow.

While their other group traversed to the front entrance, Jae was heading to the backstage area.

Numerous products from the earlier presentation were arranged haphazardly such as succubi slaves, the sea sprite, magical items, and grimoires.

Jae detected a mace in the corner of the weapon pile. He snatched it without concern for being deemed as a thief. After all, he was not the only one stealing from backstage. On the way, he broke the lock of the succubi slaves’ cage along with several others’ out of sympathy.

“Let go of the brain!” A priest demanded. The three-leafed clover crest on his clothing revealed that he was from a different church than Philip.

The priest pointed his mace at a figure with a duck skull mask. Light green chains bound the duck mask.

“Quack,” the duck mask replied while squeezing his arms out of the bindings. A grey hand seized the brain from the duck mask and transported it to a donkey masked woman.

A female knight sprinted forward to retrieve the brain, but the brain was tossed over her to another dark cultist with a horse mask. The action reminded Jae of the game called the monkey in the middle.

Ignoring the brain, the female knight cut through the donkey mask cultist.

Before the brain reached the other cultist, Philip created a golden barrier around the brain. With the spherical barrier around the brain, the dark cultist’s hands burned when he caught the container.

Although his hands sizzled in pain, the dark cultist took off with Nightfall’s brain. Chanting a spell, the barrier was soon negated.

“Retrieve it!” The priest with a clover crest yelled.

Instead of a knight, a demon in its combat form obstructed the dark cultist. However, a creature formed from violet mana stopped in front of the demon.

Conflicts persisted within the backstage of the dome. Knights and mercenaries from different countries fought to reclaim the brain and other items from the demons, criminals, and cultists.

BOOOOM!

More blasts transpired within the dome. At this rate, the whole auditorium would collapse once the magicians exhausted their mana and could no longer maintain the barrier.

In the midst of the chaos, Jae, Iris, and Bridget did not lose sight of the escaping horse mask as they pursued him. Running out of the dome, the horse mask was impeded by a group of knights.

“Release the item or perish!” The knight’s commander declared.

The horse mask rose the brain into the air to allow a black eagle to steal it. Archers shot arrows at the bird to no avail.

When the knights glanced away from the horse mask to lay their attention on the bird, the horse mask had vanished.

A winged demon threw a javelin into the bird. The brain fell from the air into a different demon’s embrace.

However, Iris used her whip to snatch the organ away. While in the air, a swordsman sliced through the vine whip. Bridget scrambled toward the brain on her quick eight legs. Holding the item in her arms, she sprinted away from the knights and demons.

“An arachnid?” The knight noticed Bridget’s lower body. Since Melody was not nearby, Bridget’s racial features were exposed.

The swordsman channeled mana through his legs and rapidly closed the distance between him and Bridget. With his broad sword, he hacked at one of Bridget’s spider legs. As the arachnid toppled over, the knight started a second slash.

“Oh no you don’t,” Jae mumbled with a platinum strand of hair already in his mouth. Stretching his arm out, tendrils protruded from the ground to coil around the knight’s legs.

Noticing that the tendrils were created by Jae, the swordsman released himself from the plants and charged at Jae.

Jae held his mace horizontally in front of him to block the man’s sword. The sword struck, but Jae endured the blow. Before the second strike arrived, Jae dashed pass the knight and toward Bridget.

“Pass it to me!” He ordered.

With the brain now in his hands, Jae ran three steps before being struck by the swordsman by the back of the swordsman’s blade. His mask cracked and the container plummeted onto the ground.

Wondering how the capsule could last being dropped and passed around for so long, Jae waved his arm to create a wall of plants. The stems shielded the brain away from the swordsman.

While letting the swordsman obtain the brain would be better than Sazroth’s minions, Jae was not sure if the swordsman was on their side.

“D*mn it,” Jae cursed as he saw a hand emerge from the shadows to steal the brain. He recognized that the magic was the same one the horse mask applied to escape the knight’s encirclement.

Returning the tendrils to the ground, Jae helped Bridget up to run away from the angered swordsman.

“If I knew that was going to happen, I would have just given it the guy,” Jae observed the surrounding for hints of the shadow.

The citizen’s stalls were broken, bodies cluttered the floors, and the dome was about to fall apart. It was truly a depressing sight for the already ruined city to become more broken. After this incident, would the city ever be able to repair itself?

Jae halted. On his foot was a thin hand stretched from an injured demon whose legs were fractured.

“Are you with or against the humans?” The demon asked. He had been watching Jae hindering the human swordsman.

“Neither,” Jae promptly replied.

“I am a minion of the northern demon lord. Please, keep the demon lord Kavra’s brain away from the humans and the southern demon lord’s minions,” the demon pleaded.

“I’ve been trying for the later, but why the humans?” Jae’s exposed silver eye narrowed, “What is the northern demon lord going to do with the brain?”

“All that our Lord, Malethur Grimm, wishes for is peace between the demons and other races. He wishes for the reconciliation of the other species and to apologize for what our ancestors had done years ago,” the demon explained, “However, the humans of Fortendor and the Church refuse to listen to our Lord. If the brain ends up in their hands, then the power of the church will increase exponentially and my kinsmen will be eliminated.”

“Yeah, and Malethur Grimm totally doesn’t sound like an evil name,” Jae spoke with blatant sarcasm, “So do you actually expect me to believe you? Who knows, maybe you’re one of Sazroth’s minions.”

The demon’s expression crumbled, “I beg of you, don’t let them take the brain. I don’t care if you bring it away from my allies or destroy it. Simply, don’t let it end up in the hands of Sazroth or the church.”

“Sure.”

“Please, I beg of you to fulfill my last wis-eh? You will?”

“Yup,” Jae agreed as he patted the demon’s shoulder, “Anything else?”

“O-oh, if you could, don’t hurt my brethren,” the demon replied in a daze.

“Alright,” Jae complied as the demon released Jae’s foot.

Jae began to move to the crowd. He could tell that the game of hot potato was still ongoing with the brain.

“Why did you agree?” Bridget, who was silent during the conversation, asked.

“A hunch,” Jae answered.

With an umbrella in one hand, a girl in white smiled while waving at Jae.

“Just this once since I feel bad about you. But I won’t listen to you next time,” Jae muttered.

“Did you say something?” Bridget turned her head toward Jae.

Jae shook his head. After he blinked, the girl had vanished.

At some point in time, the brain ended up in the hands of a small demon. Right next to the demon was a slain cultist with a shattered horse mask.

“Halt in the name of the Goddess Eva!” A paladin in silver armor pointed his sword at a demon.

The demon cowered in fear under the paladin’s weapon but refused to let go of the brain.

“Please, listen to me!” The demon shouted, “I’m not with the southern demon lord! I need to get the brain away from them!”

Without utter disregard of the demon’s words, the paladin’s sword came closer to the demon’s neck.

From behind, Jae sprinted to the paladin and swiveled on his right foot. Utilizing the momentum of his spin, Jae swung his mace at the paladin’s leg.

Whack!

“Run!” Jae called out to the demon as the paladin fell on one knee.

The demon nodded and fled with the brain.

“Who are you? A human? An ally of the demons?” Immediately rising, the knight pointed his sword at Jae’s neck.

Jae’s cracked mask revealed half his face. Sticking his tongue out at the knight, he replied, “Nope, but I’m obligated to help the northerners over you.”

“Heathen!” The paladin slashed across Jae’s neck. However, Jae bent down and rolled to his side to avoid it.

“Bridget!” Jae shouted.

Three knives flew as the wires attached to them coiled around the knight. Strengthening his body with mana, the paladin broke free within seconds.

However, those seconds were all that Jae needed to retreat.

“Don’t you dare run!” With his pride injured, the paladin chose to follow after Jae instead of the demon and the brain.

“Sh*t, a Knight of Fortendor,” Jae recognized the emblem that Philip had explained to him last light.

When Philip told Jae that the lion head with a sword was the symbol of Fortendor’s army, he realized that they were the ones who saved him and his group a year ago by breaking into the facility. However, as Philip described, the knights really were not that bright.

He felt guilty for hindering one of his saviors, but it was too late since he had already aided the northern demons.

Jae continued through the alleyways, hoping that the foolish paladin would leave him alone. A slender hand stretched out and pulled Jae into a corner.

Embracing the boy, Iris smiled, “How are you today?”

“Is now really the right time to ask?” Jae retorted, “Come on, Iris. Let’s go finish up the remnants of the cultists. If they escape now, then Sazroth would obtain information about our location.”

Releasing the boy, she continued grinning, “But, it looks like everything is over now.”

“What?”
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