Carrying Marjorie on his back, Isidore was wary when they come across a tight space in the passage. It was getting smaller and smaller as they go further until they got into a new room.
"These passageways sure is tricky." Isidore said.
Suddenly, he noticed something odd from the flame of the torch in his hand. It was swaying back and forth as if a gentle wind was blowing it. He's trying to figure out where was the current coming from until a loud roar echoes across the empty hall. Agitated, he tries to follow where the sound was coming from. There too many doors and path he come across along the way. He paused at every intersection to wait for the next roar. After a few jiffy of chasing the roar, he eventually ended up in a room where he saw Chaneri and Sofia were dealing with another creature. It looks like a cheetah but with an unnatural size. It grows multiple times larger than a usual cheetah that makes it looks robust and deadly. The lightning symbol is also noticeable from the side of its body. Sofia and the beast are exchanging attacks, however it was not Sofia's intention to hurt her opponent for her attacks were so shallow. Isidore immediately knows the reason why.
"Krios, try to wake up!" She tried to reach his consciousness but it was futile. He can no longer hear her nor recognize her.
It maneuvers from wall to wall at a lightning speed following a loud roar that makes the whole place shake in shamble. Dusts and debris fall from the cavities of the roofs.
"Go! Help them." Marjorie said to Isidore. "You don't have to worry about me." Isidore put her gently to lean beside the wall of the passage and hurriedly run to the rescue.
"Aaaahhhh!" Chaneri falls down on the ground as the beast snatched her out of nowhere leaving a small scratch on her shoulder.
"Chaneri!" Isidore rushed towards her.
"Ardent flame of Loki; Source of light and heat; Let your fervor enkindle; I command thou set ablaze." Isidore wade through as the flame scatters around him. The flames were like comets chasing the beast all over the place. It swayed and move through his command with ease making the enemy to stand back away from them.
"Sofia! Now!" Isidore yelled which the nine-tailed fox immediately understood.
"Wisdom's Blessing!" Sofia lent Isidore the blessing of wisdom which boosts his attack speed and damage. It also helps him to think positive in battle for a better solution rather than violence.
The enemy felt their combined presence and falls back into the darkness. It move smoothly across the shadows like a lightning passing through the night.
"Take Marjorie and Chaneri with you!" Isidore ordered Sofia and chased after the beast who's long gone from their sight.
"Yes, my lord." Sofia immediately obeys what he said. She tries to carry both of them on her back but Chaneri resist.
"It's okay. I can still go on. Just take her instead. I can still fly, this is just a small scratch." Chaneri said holding the wound on her shoulder from the claws of the beast earlier. Together they follows Isidore across the dim passage.
"What's the situation?" He asked Sofia.
"He's under some sort of spell that made him relentlessly vicious. I cannot communicate with him, he had already lost his sanity." Sofia answered.
"I see, there must be a sorcerer among them to pull such actions towards an appointed guide." He said referring to one of the members of Orions.
With the help of Wisdom's Blessing, Isidore was able to track the enemy with ease. He can see its after images across the room. They made a few turns and got into different rooms, however the enemy was fast enough to escape from them, leaving them behind.
Meanwhile, Mizuki who had just gotten himself out of the hole which he had been to earlier, come across the running beast. It directly charges him with great power, luckily he was able to dodge it. Too bad for him, there's no soil for the plants to prosper inside the labyrinth and there's no enough water to go around.
In an instant he got an idea, he leads the beast towards the gap on the ground where he had been to before. He's leading it towards its nesting place which seems to be a bad idea because he was cornered. However, he was not just luring it towards the underground but actually he's looking for a good spot to execute an attack.
He noticed that the floor beneath were already broken and damage resulting an underground water to emerge. He noticed this when he come across the wet sticky substance on the floor — which were a mix substance of water, moss, methane and blood from the dead remains. With the floor already torn up, he can easily destroys it for the plants to grow. Using the liquid methane on the ground, he throws the torch he was holding and the fire spread fast evenly.
It was only him and the beast staring eye to eye as they both stand against each other surrounded by the scorching flame across the room. He then pulled the violin attached on his back and places it gently on his shoulder. He starts to fiddle the violin with magnificent force for the water to break in from underground. It took some time for the water to rise for the floor was really built thick. He gracefully dances across the flames as the beast tried to snatch him with its long sharp claws. He tries to keep up with its speed while fiddling the violin on his hands. Suddenly, the water breaks in from below that throws the creature up high in the air. Unfortunately, it managed to dodge mid air, jumping from wall to wall.
Through the rhythm Mizuki has been playing, the stream of water slithered into the air like a serpent fighting against the feline beast. It carefully wriggles across the flame to avoid from extinguishing it. The creature evades and dodges all the attacks he hurled and somewhat it realizes that the tune were controlling the water. Instead of fighting the water elemental, it turns on attacking Mizuki who is nimbly fiddling the violin at a corner. He blocked the beast's claws and fangs on time by the sturdy stalks of vines he had sneakily planted a while ago when he was trying to portend it. When the beast caught off guard, he manage to land a hit from behind using the water stream that thwart it to the ground.
It was angered even more and tries to baffle the stream by running around the wall at a great speed. It stride fast with its long and lanky body creating a strong current of gust and lightning across the area that destroy the stream of water in an instant. The fast current extinguished the flames around forcibly. Mizuki thought it would be extremely dark if all of it were to put out, yet he's intuition were wrong. A strong glow of lightning emitting from the creature's body gives the room enough light. However it was tricky for the extremely unstable energy emitting from the creature is trying to attract everything inside the room making everything magnetic.
"Good Judgement!" A voice from above uttered and an astral cylinder cage drops down and imprison the beast inside.