Page 46 (1/2)

But he soon enough felt the nuhoul touch, and the ian to swis

Across froainst such monsters She had Kozah’s Needle assembled as a staff once more, and prodded it and swept it around to keep the enemies at bay She worked toward Entreri as she did, and he to her, and they quickly found a rhyth weapon and tactical bursts of itsbeasts

Entreri stayed low and unobtrusive, giving the elf warrior full reign to guide the fight Her heritage, her elf blood, would protect her frohoul paralysis, at least, where his oould not He focused on the flanks, and whenever one of theof Dahlia’s staff, it wasand darting, striking horeat care here, and reminded himself of the nature of his enemies, particularly when his shorter blade found a er drink, as it always desired, for the life-force it would bring forth from the undead would hardly nourish him

Well-versed in the nized i pack Such roving bands were common around thetheout there in the darkness, waiting for the moment to co warlock held back hisforth necro and slow any approaches wherever his coh, he found hi, one fiery assault after another, black sweeps of fla horde

Aiven them a chance, he understood, for if she had not been so powerful in her divine turning, if she had not shattered the center of the undead line with the word of her god, then the five, all fighting furiously noould surely have been overwhel their own, and that standstill became tenuous indeed when Brother Afafrenfere sluhoulish paralysis

Drizzt cahoul leaped out in front of hi, but Drizzt had noted it, and the other two, and before the wretched thing got near to hitting him, his scimitars fast descended

Its head split cleanly in half, the ghoul fell away

Drizzt bowled through it, threw hiround and caical anklets, his sciht ferociously as he barreled between the other two ghouls, leaving theht hoisted its greatsword to e, and worked it deftly to slow the drow’s momentum This was no simple animated corpse, but the raised remains of one who had been a formidable warrior in life, obviously

Drizzt didn’t appreciate that in the early encounter, and had to throw hiround to avoid a sudden heavy sweep of that four-foot blade, the air huer’s breadth from his face

He kept his feet firround, and every ht up He evenback to avoid the sweeping backhand of the greatsword

The wight advanced in a rush behind that blade

Drizzt started out to the right, retreated a step and bent backward, then threw hi Then he darted ahead, ain, and a third tiht was fast in pursuit, pressing Drizzt It felt no pain A living opponent would be clutching at its side, where ichor and death

Drizzt set hiht’s next attack, and as the greatsword started round slipped out under his weight and he stumbled

Their defensive forhoul poison reached deep into Brother Afafrenfere

He swooned He would have fallen to the ground all together, but a strong dwarf hand grabbed his shoulder, A Skullbreaker out before her with the other to keep her own eneh to keep the dwarf occupied, she chanted at the same time

Still, the dwarf’s heroic efforts would not be enough, Effron realized He waved his hand, sending a swirling line of purplish-black flahouls

The warlock reached more deeply and powerfully into his repertoire for his next spell, and black tentacles pushed out of thethat side of the for

He had to move fast, he knew, for the tentacles would slow them for only a short period of tireater undead monstrosities out there in the darkness

Even as that troubling thought flitted through the warlock’s ht back to an aniain after Dahlia had apparently destroyed it with her lightning

A skull lord!

A skull lord lurked nearby, Effron knew, and it would raise its arhoulish poison broke their ranks He had to find that particular monster and defeat it, and quickly

But where?

Drizzt knew that he was going to get hit; there was no way to avoid it, and so he had to choose a glancing blow froility, the drow set his feet and scraht, inside the sweep of the sword