“No! No!” Two more shadows desded from above and shot at the position of the crystal chamber, both of whom had huge, uncured and still glowing holes on their bodies: “You old fool! You ot do this! You must stop!”

  “It’s too te, for all of us.” Master Liaoran chuckled, before he took a final look at the rest of the team - Marcus stayed behind to make sure nothing and no oo follow them, and to take o look at the master himself; the rest of the team went up the stairs from which they came. If they hurried, they would be able to get to a safer level before everything would begin to fall into ruin. “You had years, decades to stop and reverse what you’ve been doing. Yet you chose the path of the dragon. You have failed before you even began.”

  Anolden shockwave exploded from between the master’s palms and the sword pte. Both shadow figures screeched as the shockwave igheir bodies and delivered heavy blows to the invisible between them and their shared physical body. The very inner fabrics of the shadow figures were burning, and the golden fmes were spreading through the previously invisible , raging for their shared physical body hidden somewhere in the upper levels.

  The shockwave rocked the walls. Dust rose and turned into sparks and ders. Following the chaotid raging through the entire space, the dust particles danced and waved through the air. In but a moment, the entire underground space was lit up like it was exposed uhe midday sun, with firestorms twirling and crashing against each other.

  It took a while, but the beam of energy shooting from the tip of the sword pte finally chewed aed through all the crete and rebar floors and the one pilr straight above. More than half a dozen blood rainbows above and around the top of the eater building were shattered and squashed by an invisible force field created by the energy beam. It proceeded to pierto the thick clouds, burning a glowing hole in the sky with golden bolts of lightning shooting outward and spreading to almost the ey.

  “Fuck!” Gloria waved her hand and blocked some debris ing her way from the crumbling walls and ceilings: “We must hurry! Go go go!”

  “Marcus! Where are you!” Kevin put his arms above his head to block the dust and pebbles, looki and right: “Marcus! Answer me!”

  “I’m behind you! ” Marcus answered as he unleashed palm strikes in the air to bst falling debris and rocks away: “Just go! ”

  The staircases were visibly getting lighter in color the further up they went and more time went by. Even glowing, lightning bolt shaped lines and marks began to appear along the walls and the floor. Light smoke arose from cracks and crevices around them. The dark tarry substan the walls and the ceilings began to melt, drip and vaporize.

  They ran past at least a dozen staffers and security guards in the building, all of them were either burning lowing from inside like human-shaped light bulbs.

  “Light! It’s light!” Faces, g, ughing, grimag and raging, maed on almost all the surfaces of the building interior and furniture. These were spirits trapped in this building, or at least that was what Marcus and Gloria assumed they were. Right now, with whatever dark spells or energy keeping them dormant and suppressing them being peeled and burned away, they resurfaced and began searg fht and warmth.

  “Help me!” “Help me!” Some spirits maed as gray, human-like shadows floating in the air. Some were full-bodied, while most were broken, torn and mahey undoubtedly found the vibrant life force from the group seductive, yet at the same time some invisible barrier and aura was keeping most of them at bay.