Iridescent Spirit - Chapter 62 Prehistoric Statues

“Not on my watch!”

As the stone club descended upon Allen, Jae pushed the man away and took the blow right into his waist. Instead of being split apart, Jae plummeted into the floor with his body battered, but still complete.

The months of being beaten up were not as useless as Jae had initially expected.

“You,” Allen’s eyes widened. Shaking out of his stupor, Allen withdrew a prepared sheet of paper and folded it into an origami tiger with prepared movements. As he threw it into the air, it enlarged in size and tackled the statue.

Alas, Allen’s paper magic was not combat-oriented as the paper tiger was torn apart by one swing.

“Wendy! Get Allen!” Jae grunted. His bruises visibly healed as he crawled out of the hole. Channeling a third of his mana remaining, he forcefully regenerated his leg.

“Okay~!” Wendy galloped toward the man. Without stopping, she hoisted the man under her arm and dashed. Her robust deer legs quickly brought Allen and her to the other side of the room.

In order to dodge another blow from the statue, Jae rolled onto his side. From a meter away, he spotted his mace. The statue was right in front of him as another with the appearance of a dryad approached from his right.

Flicking his wrist, a small tendril grew from his arm. Extending as fast as it could, it wrapped around the mace. However, the demon-like statue slammed its spiked club on top of the tendril, stopping the reclamation of the mace.

From behind him, the dryad statue pierced his gut with its stone vine.

In response, Jae clenched his jaw as the vine retracted from his body. When he glimpsed toward the perpetrator, the dryad smiled eerier than Iris. Or perhaps, milder compared to the girl?

With two statues encircling him, Jae quickly surveyed his surroundings. Noticing that Allen and Wendy have escaped the statue’s field of attack, Jae took out a clump of fur from his sack and swallowed.

A flavor similar to beef jerky with a hint of cinnamon apple filled his mouth. In place of two human legs, four deer hooves emerged along with two cute antlers on his head.

While transforming into a cervitaur, Jae dashed from the encirclement. On the way, he circumvented the demon-like statue and retrieved his mace.

“Over here you old-fashioned rocks!” He provoked the statues despite not knowing whether or not the animated rocks could comprehend his words.

Quickly moving away from Wendy and Allen, Jae led the two statues away from the group as bait. Despite turning into a cervitaur for the first time, Jae was able to adapt to this body faster than Wendy was.

Running to behind a pillar, he launched his two back legs onto it. From the force, cracks surfaced on the ash pillar and soon, it collapsed onto the pursuers.

Acknowledging that this would not be enough to defeat the pillars, Jae blitzed within the cloud of dust and swung his mace. He broke the dryad statue’s head. Then, he hurriedly ducked after detecting the other statue’s club coming at him a few inches from his forehead.

Thunk!

The dryad statue’s body plummeted onto the floor.

Paying no heed to the dust burning his eyes, Jae understood that he would go down in one hit supposing the statue’s club made it to his body.

Without waiting for the dust to settle, the demon statue could easily identify Jae through his mana signature. Detecting Jae’s figure, it swung its club with nimble movements despite its massive body.

Boom!

The club crashed onto the floor! Bits of hardened ash flew from the blow.

But there was no flattened boy beneath his club.

“Where do you think you’re hitting?” From the air, a boy with black wings rotated his body. Using the momentum of his rotations, he aimed his mace at the demon’s head.

Baam!

However, unlike the decapitated dryad statue, the demon was still intact. Rather than the whole head blowing off, its face fell off.

No, it turned out that the demon-like statue was wearing a mask!

Twisting its head one eighty degrees to face the airborne Jae, it opened its mouth. Blazing orange flames blew out of its mouth.

With his newly grown wings that replaced his deer lower body, Jae flapped away from the fire. From his wings, he could sense a majority of his mana was being used to keep him in flight. Instead of using up his mana in the air, Jae dived down to another pillar.

Snatching a different strand of hair, Jae devoured it and became a dryad once again.

As some of the flames seared his arm, he landed on the floor and relocated to the back of the pillar. The demon statue crept closer and closer; its flames relentlessly covered the other side of the pillar.

Then, the demon suddenly paused.

Under its stone legs was a thick tendril tied around its foot as it extended from behind the pillar. Blowing fire onto the tendril, the plant burned to a crisp within seconds.

However, those seconds were all that Jae needed in order to travel behind the demon statue.

Thunk!

When Jae’s mace came in contract with the demon’s leg, it fragmented. Numerous cracks stemmed from the fracture as the statue tipped over due to the imbalance.

Jae could observe a hint of fury on that fixed face as it collapsed onto the ground.

Heavily panting from the combat, Jae’s tense body relaxed for a second as he noticed a unique tattoo on the statue’s face. But, what surprised him more was that the statue was not of a demon, but an elf with a large build.

“I have no time to rest,” Jae used up the rest of his mana to recover his body to its initial state. After creating the tendril as a dryad, Jae had immediately switched back into a cervitaur to rush around the statue.

Dragging his fatigued body and mind, he persevered toward his companions.

Hopefully, they were still alive.
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