She unleashed a simple tier three spell, Windblade, that was supposed to chop off their legs and chests at the same time. Although deep, the wounds opened by her spell turned out to be far from lethal, stopping even before reaching the bones.
The bugbears stumbled just for a second before swallowing their pain and resuming the charge.
"Seriously? A tier one spell?" Friya was flabbergasted.
"It was a tier tree!" Quylla rebuked her while unleashing a second Windblade, aimed exactly where the first had struck.
The air spell managed to cut the bugbears’ femoral artery and pierce their lungs, making the creatures drown in their own blood.
"First, you shouldn’t have let them call for reinforcements. Second, there’s no way that a tier three didn’t kill them on the spot from that distance." Friya spoke as softly as she could, but the annoyance in her voice was unmistakable.
"I know I messed up, but that’s also because of your false information. As for the spells, I swear that I only prepared tier three..." Quylla was cut short when one of the maces struck Friya’s head, sending her sprawling on the floor.
Quylla turned around just in time to dodge the one aimed at her. The two bugbears were standing up, the wounds on their bodies were barely visible.
’Since when do bugbears have regenerative powers?’ Quylla thought while unleashing the tier three Frost Cutter spell. Icicles the size of an arm pierced the creatures’ heads and chests, turning them froze solid in the process.
This time she also used first magic to alter the ground so that they would fall onto rock spikes that easily penetrated through the frozen meat, destroying the brain and the heart at the same time.
Afraid of the bugbears’ recovery abilities, this time Quylla cut off their heads before worrying about her sister.
"Friya?" Quylla asked, incapable of making heads or tails of that situation. Her sister was wearing a Skinwalker armor and the mace was just a piece of wood. It wasn’t supposed to do her any harm, no matter the amount of strength behind the hit.
Lith was amazed as well, but compared to his friend he had more clues. Quylla was right about everything. Bugbears weren’t supposed to regenerate, nor wood could harm someone wearing an enchanted armor, let alone one of his making.
The problem was that it wasn’t wood and that those weren’t bugbears, or at least not completely. The two corpses stood up again, uncaring for the missing heads or the gaping hole where once a heart resided.
"Undead?" Phloria asked while unsheathing her sword.
"No, plants." Lith replied. A split-second later roots and vines filled the empty space in the creatures’ chest and a sapling grew out from their necks.
Quylla had enough of that madness, so she used the only tier five spell she had at the ready. Volcano was a mix of fire and earth magic that turned the ground below the monsters into molten lava swallowing them whole. fɾeewebnoveℓ.co๓
The creatures died in an instant, without the time to emit nothing but the smell of sandalwood incense.
"What the heck happened?" Friya’s vision was still blurry but she was otherwise uninjured.
"Your information network sucks!" Quylla replied while checking that she didn’t have a concussion.
"And you are sloppy." Lith said, throwing the clubs into the still fiery pit. The wood split and germinated into small tendrils that tried to escape death, but the lava turned them into cinders before they could reach the safety of the ceiling.
The screeching sounds of agony cleared all doubts about how Friya had been stunned.
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