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Reborn ghost seeing lady is pampered by her ex husband-Chapter 521: Inside the ice caves.
The daring journey across the lake seemed to be almost endless and it only grew colder the more they walked. Phoebe had to use her energy to regulate heat inside of her body. As for the non-magic related humans. Maureen gave them all self-heating talismans that kept the cold at bay.
When they came to the center of the frozen lake, their breaths fogged the icy air. Arrow came to a sudden stop and turned to Phoebe that had her eyes on the Central map.
"This is it." Arrow knelt down and observed a particular spot through his red eyes. "The path to the caves is here, I believe what you are seeking is below the surface here."
With his hand, he tapped the ice three times, invoking an ancient rhyme. A cracking sound was heard and a gash formed. It widened silently and created a gaping frozen hole in the middle of the lake. Arrow was not finished; he spread his hands apart and clapped together suddenly. His lips were still moving and snow in the air swirled around them like a vortex.
When Arrow was finished, a staircase of ice had been formed.
"Cool, right?" He looked at Phoebe and winked.
David rolled his eyes while Phoebe and Maureen peeked down, peering into an entry way to the ice cave they sought.
"I will go down last," Arrow said.
"I will go first." Maureen said. She wanted to make sure that they were not slippery.
The descent into the ice caves was not treacherous but nevertheless it was frightening. Lydia in particular was frightened, she had never met a magic user before and she did not trust the ice not to bury them all down there. If Collin had not ventured in with Cassie, she would not have followed willingly.
Phoebe took care of illuminating the path, she gave everyone a pearl that shined as bright as an electric bulb when it was switched on.
Soon, they found their way to the part of the which a now awake Cassie identified as the one where the accident happened. Everything was frozen but she would never forget every detail of the cave.
A frost wall grew out of thin air, ceiling them inside without harming them. They all paused their trucks, some like Cassie and Lydia shivered as the temperature dropped lower.
"It does not seem like she is too thrilled to know that we are here." Arrow stated. "I am not a ghost hunter, but this is the part where sane people turn back and leave the dead alone."
When he saw the looks of unwavering determination on the faces of Phoebe and Maureen, he brought the ice wall down.
The welcome they received was not warm, Maureen's fingers clenched around a sleek silver dagger that was named the moonfang, it was a magical dagger which had been forged by an exorcist that had lost his family to a vengeful spirit in the seventeen hundreds. It was rumored that the dagger carried a bit of its creators soul and unyielding resolve to vanquish anything undead.
The moonfang blade drew its power from moonlight and when it was used against a ghost, it would disrupt the ethereal form of the ghost, binding it to the blade. After binding, the ghost would dissolve into harmless mist.
Maureen planned to use it just in case the situation escalated out of control and Phoebe's life was endangered. As far as she figured, dissolving Connie was a better fate than sending her to hell.
Behind them, another ice wall was formed, and the ordinary humans were frightened.
"Let us move forward, we will find an exit when we are done, you have nothing to worry about when we have a living ice god with us." Maureen told them, assuring them of their safety.
Arrow was not an ice god; she was just making a statement to ease the hearts of the Baltimore's.
"Connie? Connie?" Phoebe called out loudly, her misty breaths swirling in the cold. Her voice was quoted in desperation and fear of what she was yet to find. "It's me, Pheebs, we need to talk. I heard about what happened to you and I know that you are angry....no furious about everything that happened but I need you to calm down." She gestured at the Baltimore's to halve their steps. 'We are going in first."
She and Maureen went deeper into the cave on their own and they finally found her. Connie emerged from behind a frozen rock; it seemed like half of it had been smashed by an angry person with an extraordinary fist and strength.
"It took you long enough to realize that something was off about me. I cannot believe that you are just looking for me now, hmph!" She smiled but a glint sadness crossed her eyes. "Those memories returned to me sister Pheebs and I wish that they hadn't at least then I would not know why I resented my twin sister. I would keep thinking that we loved each other but fought over a dress or a skirt or maybe she stole my favorite candy." She laughed a kick at the rock. "It was worse than candy, she stole my peace and life. I wanted to pluck out her heart, I really did but I did not want to ruin my chances at reincarnation." There was quiet ache in her voice.
A great feeling of relief seeped through Phoebe's blood stream, the fact that Connie had chosen to take her anger out on a rock rather than Cassie's head was excellent.
"You did good my girl, you really did. I knew that after all you have seen in the world and the evil ghosts we have dealt with, you would not let yourself become evil. Thank you, Connie." She let out grateful whispers, urging her to float to her by making hand gestures.
Maureen hid the Moonfang in her back pocket and wiped cold sweat from her brows as she let out a short laugh. "That was way easier than I anticipated, Connie, you gave us quite a scare." Her voice cracked with relief.
"Connie? My child, are you here?" Lydia stumbled onto them unexpectedly.
"Get back here." David hissed at her.
It was too late anyway and everyone found them. Phoebe sent talismans to Lydia and Cassie which allowed them to see Connie. In response to their arrival, Cassie pulled a few steps back while her mother bolted forward with open arms.
Meanwhile, Connie cast a scathing look towards Cassie. "Why is she here? Why did you bring her here? It is her fault that I died so unfairly like that. I recall everything that she and her friends did to me after she accused me of killing our father! I don't want to see her." Connie twisted her face to express her displeasure.
Maureen's hands moved in a motion that gestured at Connie to calm down because her eyes were darkening as the rage within her took over. "Girl, you need to calm down, do not let that rage fill you up." She warned.
Cassie did not help matters when she deviated from the original plan, she was supposed to plead for her life instead she pointed an index finger at Connie. "But it was because of your greed for ice cream that our father died, you were a selfish person who took things which did not belong to you! You are not entirely sinless Connie!"
The sound of Connie's scream compelled the ice to explode around them and cracks began to form on top of the frozen lake.
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All the magic related individuals felt that change and heard the cracking.
"That cannot be good." Maureen murmured, brows furrowed.