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I ducked out froer from him and he reached around his other side and pulled out another one I took that one too

“Rocks!” Noc yelled at Tor, his ar around me, he tucked h soe rocks The whole ti to provide cover overhead as Noc ai on us froer and one of the creatures howled, dropped to his back and exploded in blue sparks

“Jesus fkin’ Christ,” Noc ger Another creature howled, collapsed and exploded in blue sparks

The rest kept advancing as we kept going toward cover, not an easy thing to do through sand

A vickrant fle, sailing under Sale my arh the vickrant’s chest, blue sparks shot into my face and the vickrant disappeared Another instantly followed and I did the sa at its throat, it vanished in a shock of blue e us, me in the middle, Salem and Tor close to my side

I took down another vickrant before we made it around the tall rock the underneath of which the sea had eroded away, giving us an overhang and cover fro just the saht into the top of the rock in their ka theil beside us, using his huge body to cut off access at the front of the rock and I watched in shock as Sale vickrant with a nasty chomp of his horse teeth

Uh… whoa!

Then Noc shouted at er to the other hand, pulled a clip out of my back pocket and handed it to him He took it, instantly released the used clip, it fell with a thud into the sand and he shoved the next one in Taking aied creatures, not h, it had to be said, they would be hard tomany of thes planted, just out fro vickrants doith every ed h another swing that took out three vickrants at once Then he went on, “The good, anything pierces their skin, they perish” Another swing, another grunt, another two vickrants exploding in blue “The other good, they have no brain, they are programmed only with the mission so they aren’t tactical and are unable to adjust their advance, for instance, if they are confronted with terrain that is difficult toat toilroys as another vickrant fle, around Sale it under its belly and blue flashes flew

“There are a lot of thereat,” Noc muttered, aimed, fired and another toilroy bit the dust “I’ot a clip and a half left,” Noc went on to inform Tor

“Salem!” Tor bellowed, the horse turned around and Tor stopped swinging just long enough to pull a lethal-looking axe out of a holder on the saddle, he turned and tossed it, head up, to Noc who caught it by the handle left-handed

Well, the other good was, my man was a warrior and he caback to ai down another toilroy, “I run outta aet close to those fkers to take theic for Minerva to conjure this many creatures and I would assume an incomparable amount to send the, the air rife with blue flashes where he connected, another vickrant caed forward and planted a dagger in his belly as another one ca it at its gullet “We have learned in the past that if we’re able to reduce their nu and concluded, “they’ve orders to retreat”

“That’s good news, right?” I asked, plungingin attheer