Iridescent Spirit - Chapter 60 Moonstone Pagoda

Ghastly voices echoed within the underground, ash-formed world. Debris scattered in the surroundings as clouds of dust obscured the scene of havoc. Within the chaos, several silhouettes scurried around in order to escape the enclosed space.

“There is two, nine o’clock, and three, I mean, five meters from Allen. Crackle. Three right in front of Melody. Crackle. One a meter, no half a meter above Jade,” Layla observed the specters and ordered.

As the exclusive one who could see those disembodied spirits, Layla had to give commands to everyone. Being unaccustomed to taking the lead, Layla fumbled her words.

“Shoot them!” Melody called out.

Allen began to cast his magic. Miniature paper crane familiars were brought to life from the ripped book pages. As the origami cranes flew toward the general direction that Layla addressed,

None of the children who were modified to Ath’s or Letum’s races could use more than one spell of the magic Allen had taught. They included Wendy, Scarlett, Bridget, Natalie, and Layla as their mana would run out after that one spell.

Surprisingly, Natalie’s paint manipulating arts had the ability to counteract the specters temporarily even though it was not magic. While it did not destroy them, the specters would avoid Natalie’s paints for several minutes, assisting the children in stalling for time so they could locate the exit.

While demons like Jade were also a part of Ath’s races, their mana capacities were artificially enlargened due to one of their ancestors. Therefore, only Jade could cast multiple spells despite being one of Ath’s races.

Instead of fighting, those who could not use magic continued to attack the maze’s walls. Since the ash walls would regenerate within minutes, the children had to hurry across the labyrinth while avoiding the specter’s possession.

Jae lowered down to a knee as he concentrated on banishing another specter from his inner world. Since he had a slight immunity to the specter’s possessions and corruption, he decided to position himself in front of the rest and take the specters’ blows.

Luckily, Jae was the only one who faced the onslaught of the specters’ attack to his soul. Supposing that a specter entered someone else’s body, then there was no telling whether or not that person’s soul would emerge unscathed.

Rather than wilted flowers, robust fauna grew under Jae’s very being. For a place created from ash and devoid of the two essentials to grow plants, it was peculiar for the flowers to be able to thrive in this environment.

However, the boy turned dryad could care less about why flowers were still growing around him. He was more concerned about the battles within his inner world.

Melody and Jade pointed at where Layla directed them to. Channeling their mana like allowing water to flow through pipes, they created balls of light within their hands.

As the specters made contact with those lights, the lesser specters disintegrated. However, this action could not truly exterminate the specters as, after a while, they would reform.

For a specter to be completely destroyed, an exorcist or shaman would be needed. After all, their spells and talismans were crucial in sending the souls back to the goddesses.

Since the larger and more powerful specters were not affected by the bits of magic casted, the children had to continue bulldozing through the broken walls.

“Over there! I see a gate!” Scarlett roared as she pounded on the walls.

Jae and Iris lowered their bodies until their palms could touch the ground. Inserting their mana into the ground, thick tendrils shot up and twisted into a wall.

Interested in the massive physical vessels, the specters giggled while entering the plants.

“Better having the plants possessed than us,” Jae muttered as he swung his mace. Plant matter was batted into the air. Leaving the plant fragments, the specters would aim for the bigger containers to control.

“Sh*t! It’s locked!” Scarlett slammed at the gate doors.

“Wait, is this not the same orb we witnessed back in the underground cave?” Clara noticed a familiar orb next to the gate.

“Huh? Oh! You’re right, Clara!” Scarlett stepped back, “Hurry and touch it so we can leave!”

Clara settled her hand on the orb, however, there was no reaction.

“What do you mean? Have you two seen this thing before?” Melody asked.

“Melody, duck!” Layla called out. One of the possessed tendrils shot at the fairy’s head.

To Layla’s words, Scarlett reacted faster than Melody by pushing her down. During the fall, the fairy accidentally established physical contact with the orb.

For a few seconds, the orb did not react. But, suddenly, it illuminated the maze with a golden light.

A string of words surfaced from the orb as Clara read them out loud, “Why shouldn’t you write with a broken pencil? It’s pointless”

Immediately after Clara finished reading the words, the door’s lock disappeared.

“Ignore it! Let’s go!” Jade ordered as the children scrambled through the door.

“F***, my leg!” Jae realized that a specter-controlled tendril grabbed onto his leg. Choosing to give up on it, Jae slammed the dense metal gate doors together, which lopped his leg off.

“Keep going! I’m fine!” Jae shouted.

Without flinching, Jae limped up the stairs to follow the rest. Snapping his fingers, he created a makeshift prosthetic leg out of vines in order to catch up. Along the way, Iris ran by his side to support Jae.

Soon, after treading past many flights of stairs, the group arrived at the summit. Allen pushed the door open as they climbed out of the hole.

“Isn’t this inside the pagoda?” Melody scanned the building’s interior. Black columns and walls clearly showed her that they had entered the black pagoda they had seen earlier.

“Sure looks like it, which means we can’t leave untill we defeat the boss of the pagoda,” Allen clicked his tongue, “If only we had found the artifact within the maze, then we could have fled without having to fight.”

“Is there a way out without facing the boss?” Jae inquired Allen.

“No, the moment we try to leave or destroy the walls, then the boss will retaliate by chasing us to the ends of the world,” Allen replied.

“It is too late to regret; we have to move on,” Jade shook her head.

“For a place where the leader of the specters is at, it is surprisingly quiet compared to all the screaming from below,” Nora remarked, “Hey Layla, do you see anything odd.”

“Crackle. Yes. The fact that there are no specters at all is abnormal.”

“They might be all congested at the higher floors,” Nora guessed as the group began to march up the staircase.

“Careful-” Layla started when she detected a trap arrow being shot.

However, she was not fast enough to warn Jae.

Instead of being hit, Jae instinctively knocked the arrow from the air using his mace.

“I had enough of receiving injuries today,” Jae grumbled.

The rest of the group prepared for the incoming traps. As more arrows shot, they knocked them from the air.

Within minutes, they reached the second floor.

“Statues?” Jae discerned sculptures of humanoid figures with non-human parts. Some seemed to be beastmen. However, unlike the beastmen that Jae had seen in Alkbestia, these sculptures resembled ferocious beasts or monsters.

While the children kept their guard up, they advanced through the passageway.

“T-they won’t mo-move, will they?” Natalie stammered.

“Don’t jinx us!” Jae wanted to cry when he noticed that the moment Natalie asked that, the statues’ eyes flashed red. However, he had no tears to shed when it was time to face adversary.

A statue resembling a male lamia began to actuate animatedly toward the group. Soon, sculptures of the various races activated and joined the lamia to assault the intruders.

Scarlett and Clara dashed in the front lines. With her gauntlets, Scarlett crushed the sculptures with boisterous movements. On the other hand, Clara elegantly circumvented the stone statues while slicing through them with her scythe.

Behind them, Iris snapped her whip around a statue’s leg. Due to that, the statue toppled onto other stone figures, creating an effect similar to falling dominoes.

When Bridget witnessed what Iris was doing, she utilized her knives and wires a similar way.

Since Natalie’s paint and Melody’s illusions were useless against non-living rock beings, they moved out of the way in order to not interfere with the ongoing fights. On the sidelines, they noticed that Allen did not join the fight as well.

Instead, he was traveling around the fight with Jae, who was sitting on Wendy’s back. With a missing leg, he figured that Wendy would

“Have you found the staircase to the next floor?” Jae pulverized an outstretched arm into stone fragments.

“Give me a minute. Don’t you know that controlling multiple pieces of paper could be difficult with one mind?” Allen cursed under his breath.

“No, I wouldn’t understand!” Jae continued to block the barrage of arrows a statue shot from the distance. While his body would be fine being hit by the arrows, he could not allow Wendy to be injured.

Nonetheless, Jae could not obstruct all the attacks as a sole arrow hit Allen’s thigh. The man stumbled onto the floor.

A demonic stone carving with a face similar to a Japanese Hanya mask approached Allen.

With a spiked club, it swung down at the frail thief.
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