Ghostly Light

Serene, still.

In the quiet, mysterious depths, countless sparkling, tear-shaped golden beads lay scattered about, surrounded by fluorescent light. Their multicolored golden glow looked as though it had appeared in a dream, yet also like some not-quite-real "reality."

There were also broad swathes of seaweed and fluorescent grass coated in gold. Jiang Han guessed that when Eileen had melted the gold, liquid gold had fallen and wrapped around these vigorous plants, sticking to them even after cooling. It was the sort of thing that could happen by chance.

On the seabed grew plants like dandelions, their petals pale gold as they drifted like jellyfish.

Glug glug...

Huff!

Glug glug...

Huff!

Jiang Han made the underwater breathing sounds of an aquatic Cat Lamp. She slightly relaxed her anti-magic field in the water, and the exquisite black-and-blue dress formed by the Golden Country Cloak dragged her firmly down to the seabed.

Her delicate angel-velvet stockings stirred the currents as she found a spot amid the flowers and used her tail to pull out an air stake hanging from her body.

"Aim... mrrrow!"

Her tail suddenly exerted force, driving the air stake beneath the sandstone and fixing it firmly in place.

Bang!

The surrounding seawater was instantly cleared away, forming a hemispherical air shield two meters across! Vast amounts of oxygen surged in from outside the shield like a gale, scattering the Golden Dandelions across the ground. Some of the lighter golden beads clattered down, bounced back up, and were eventually knocked right out of the air shield!

"Heh!" Jiang Han's tail swept swiftly through the wind of life, curling up several Golden Dandelions.

She stared at the dandelions and recalled an ancient Cat Lamp tradition—or rather, a special ability shared by all intelligent species in the witch worlds.

"I hope Cat Lamps