12-11-2014, 12:40 PM
The sorcerer spotted the necromancers just moments after Atelos’ declared his intentions. Before Shang could offer a remark, the Spartan shoved into the horde of reanimating skeletons and started bashing and slashing at everything in his path. A grimace spread across the other man’s visage as the undead filled the gap created by his associate and turned their sites on him. Rather than frivolously fight a battle he couldn’t win, Shang switched to a defensive stance and started to fall back toward the two secondaries.
Shockingly inept, the two would-be garrison soldiers were struggling to maintain their composure, despite the fact that they only had at most three skeletons swinging at them. As he watched them flail, Shang was happy he wouldn’t have to rely on them to watch his flanks in combat situation involving intelligent adversaries. “Fall back!” He shouted at them as they managed to knock back their opponents. “We need to draw them away from the Spartan.”
The younger of the two men—a blonde with an unshaven face and a tiny little mouse nose—cringed as if he’d just been stabbed. “We’ll be overwhelmed!” He added as he stumbled away from the swing of an axe and scurried the rest of the way over to Shang.
“We’ll be dead regardless,” the sorcerer shouted as the wave of skeletons continued to hobble after them. Glancing over his shoulder, he saw a small hill a few meters behind them. While it wasn’t a cliff, it would at least serve as slightly higher ground than they had now. “Back to that hill,” he barked as he threw a fireball into the massing crowd of undead. With that, he followed his own order under the assumption that his two squad mates would listen.
A beat later, Shang scrambled up the small slope and turned around to survey the pitiful scene. One of the secondaries was nearly to him, but the slightly older one had fallen a few paces behind. The sorcerer suppressed a smile as a partially rusted mace landed a glancing blow to the back of the would-be soldier’s head. The impact sheered away everything that had once been between the air and the man’s now dented and splintered skull. Unfortunately for the man, he was still alive when six skeletons descended upon him, and his screams filled the skies as he was hacked and stabbed to pieces.
That should buy the Spartan some time.
Shockingly inept, the two would-be garrison soldiers were struggling to maintain their composure, despite the fact that they only had at most three skeletons swinging at them. As he watched them flail, Shang was happy he wouldn’t have to rely on them to watch his flanks in combat situation involving intelligent adversaries. “Fall back!” He shouted at them as they managed to knock back their opponents. “We need to draw them away from the Spartan.”
The younger of the two men—a blonde with an unshaven face and a tiny little mouse nose—cringed as if he’d just been stabbed. “We’ll be overwhelmed!” He added as he stumbled away from the swing of an axe and scurried the rest of the way over to Shang.
“We’ll be dead regardless,” the sorcerer shouted as the wave of skeletons continued to hobble after them. Glancing over his shoulder, he saw a small hill a few meters behind them. While it wasn’t a cliff, it would at least serve as slightly higher ground than they had now. “Back to that hill,” he barked as he threw a fireball into the massing crowd of undead. With that, he followed his own order under the assumption that his two squad mates would listen.
A beat later, Shang scrambled up the small slope and turned around to survey the pitiful scene. One of the secondaries was nearly to him, but the slightly older one had fallen a few paces behind. The sorcerer suppressed a smile as a partially rusted mace landed a glancing blow to the back of the would-be soldier’s head. The impact sheered away everything that had once been between the air and the man’s now dented and splintered skull. Unfortunately for the man, he was still alive when six skeletons descended upon him, and his screams filled the skies as he was hacked and stabbed to pieces.
That should buy the Spartan some time.
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