Chapter 132: Trial by Shadows
The Ashen Forest quickly became a place of anarchy as the spectral woman turned to mist with both her laughter ringing across the entirety of its vast expanse. His limbs were the branches of a tree, and the branches above snapped loudly, then coiled like angry snakes and pointed at him with the tips of their branches, which were as thin and sharp as knives.
Jace struck first, and their tails emitting shades of golden aura surrounded Anita. "Stay close!" he bellowed out in the increasing noise level. The noise level was rising fast now.
Anita did not need anyone to tell her twice. Its darkness reached to her, and she sliced through a tendril of it like a piece of cheesecake—her blade left no residue behind as the darkness crumbled into black sand. "What are these things?!" she yelled.