While Iluna faced Legenes Presia amid the Stonehenge ruins, Shade chose the right-hand path at the fork, passed through the Library Maze, and entered the darkness, wind, snow, and dense fog alone.
Braving the wind, he followed the upward slope. Countless black shadows prowled through the withered forest in the darkness. By now, the Pantanal Voodoo Society and its allies had scattered all their manpower across various places. No one stopped Shade beneath the tower, but the island's monsters, driven ever more insane by the evil entity's power, had not retreated.
They watched Shade from the darkness. When he had reached halfway up the slope, Corpse Ghouls with green mushrooms growing from their backs and dried corpses with vines piercing their skulls sprang out before and behind him at once.
"Silver Moon!"
Moonlight at his fingertips illuminated the path through the withered forest amid the wind and snow. Without the intimidation of Iluna's Bone Horse, the monsters surrounding Shade in layers were startled back by the moonlight, yet still refused to leave.
His left hand reached to his waist and drew the Ebony Handgun, with only its final Demon Bullet remaining. He closed his eyes and stood still. "She" quickly found the strongest individual among the pairs of yellowish-brown eyes in the withered forest:
To the left. Yes, that one.
He pulled the trigger, but there was no sound. The Doctor's handgun had ultimately shattered because of the Demon's power. The Demon Bullet shot out as a result, piercing the leader of the mutated Corpse Ghouls at the instant Darkness Descends.
The monsters retreated swiftly, and Shade raced through the snow toward the old lighthouse at the end of the path.
There was a wooden door beneath the lighthouse, and it was unlocked. But the moment Shade pushed it open