The transition from bonus room back to Elyra was one of chaos. Derivan was certain the transition to the bonus room had not nearly been so jarring but then, they'd been escaping Irvis at the ti.
When the boundary of the bonus room had snapped closed around them, flesh had started manifesting on the walls, and that had only been the start.
"I knew you'd be back," Irvis said. His voice was echoed through a thousand mouths, repeated and distorted along the walls.
The mouths had been the second thing to appear along the walls, embedded into the flesh.
After that ca the eyes, angry and burning with hatred, just like Irvis' eyes. Sev reached out and tapped Gallant on the shoulder, and a barrier of golden light wrapped itself around the young armor.
"This isn't your fight," Sev said, half-apologetic, half-determined.
"Will that be enough?" Derivan asked, glancing at the barrier. Sev nodded.
"It's a divine shield," Sev said. "New one. I can only use it once a day, and it puts the person in stasis for a day, but it's fueled directly by the gods. If Irvis can break that, we have bigger problems."
Irvis' laughter echoed around them, loud and mocking. "You already do."
And then the walls attacked, long tendrils of flesh ripping out of the walls at the four of them. They didn't bother targeting Gallant at all, either because the divine shield Sev had placed truly was an absolute form of protection or because Irvis didn't care to about a random bystander.
Derivan was, strangely enough, reminded of the last ti they'd been in sothing like a living building. The Elyran Adventurer's Guild had been modified to look almost like this not so long ago, except that had mostly been the way the system was modified and attached to the building.
This was far worse on a 'viscerally disgusting' level.
Derivan hadn't really had the ti to fully investigate what the Rembrances could do. He'd been able to go through a few of them, the Exadite Pin being the primary one but they'd only spent a few hours in the Roads to practice fighting together with their new abilities. Vex had uncovered a few things about his Serit, Misa had practiced with her new bow, and Sev had tested a few of the skills he'd received from the connections he'd established with a number of gods, though he had to apologize to them afterwards for 'frivolous usage of their powers'.
Fortunately, the Rembrances called to him. He didn't need to reach out himself the ones that could be used reacted to the situation he was in, almost like it was begging to be used.
In this case, the Rembrance that grew warm within him was the Guardian Root. It ca from a species that cultivated a strong friendship with a chosen plant, strengthening it and being strengthened in turn by mutualistic magic. Derivan called it out of him, and let the seed that appeared in his hand fall to the ground.
"It needs mana," he told Vex, and the lizardkin didn't hesitate to press his hand against it, flooding it with power.
The effect was imdiate. The seed burst to life, roots growing out of it and digging into the ground, then up the walls and straight into the flesh; branches whipped out from a rapidly-growing seedling, each one whipping away at Irvis' own tendrils defensively. They curled around all four adventurers with almost expert precision.
Misa whistled. "Didn't know you could do that," she said.
"Neither did I," Derivan admitted honestly.
They were calm too calm, perhaps but why wouldn't they be? They'd been prepared for Irvis, after all.
Misa called out her bow, her expression becoming deadly serious as she focused on a concept. The arrow she fired was intangible and immaterial, but the effect was very real as it shot down the corridor, it stripped Irvis' flesh off of the walls like it was peeling the skin off a fruit. Irvis' roar of pain followed, and Vex winced.
"I don't think I needed to see that, uh, ever," he said. Sev shuddered in agreent, and Derivan nodded. Misa just smirked.
"Let's go," she said. "He's gotta have a core of so kind sowhere."
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