Deebus went back over to the stairs the creature had come from. Then, extremely warily, he crept down into the red-tinged darkness from which it had crawled. He found himself in a cave, made of the same heavy, uncanny stone as the maze above, and very dimly lit with a faint red glow which seemed to come from the air itself. Still, it might as well have been dark. This was clearly a magical place. Perhaps all the evil spirits of the world had come from here before they came from the dreaded mountains?
His thoughts were cut short, though, as he looked through a narrow passage and saw three more of the salt spirits. In a moment, they saw him too. Deebus fled back up the stairs, running away from the antechamber - right into three more of the giant dead beasts. He run the other way, ducking down a side passage. He expected to knee-cap one monster or the other as it came around the corner after him, but they didn't. In a moment, he heard the sound of screams and violent blows. After a minute, the clashing stopped and he crept out again. The dead things, large but smaller than the spirits, were all smashed, but one of the spirits was as well. The other was wounded, and the third must not have followed Deebus up the stairs.
Deebus shot the spirit with his remaining arrows, creating a sizable fissure it its middle. Seizing a dead koala, he threw it and smashed the spirit's torso to pieces. He would need more arrows for the remaining one, so he took the dead koala and whittled its bones to sharp points.
The third spirit was indeed back down in the cave, but wasn't after he got it to chase him back up onto familiar ground. With two arrows he brought it to the floor, and leading it dragging itself around a corner, he jumped and beheaded it.