“We must retreat!” the baron shouted, finally able t off the fear, though his entire back was slick with a cold sweat. This darkness was not just any darkness, but a darkness which utterly ed. He had sworn it was a myth, for it erhaps one of the greatest disasters known to man. It wasn’t a monster, it wasn’t even a Night Lord, it was more like the Night King, no, the Night God.

  Though the shout for retreat had been given, the oners remaiill, clutched by a dark fear, even as it began to swallow the meraries towards the edge.

  “Just a sec.”

  The Baron turned, his eyes staring at the Half Elf and his three panions. The Half Elf’s armour was eerily quiet as he stepped forward, while his panion, the red skinned woman, jao his left, her bde clutched tightly in hand.

  “Great Moon,” Jaygak called, willing the bde to glow faintly, before she focused, and the bde grew even brighter, pushing back the edges of the darkness. She raised her shield to cover most of her torso, hiding behind it like a turtle.

  Jurot’s entire body filled with red he, his neck pulsing as he marched forward towards the encroag darkness. He gripped the shield’s haighter with one hand, and pressed the handle of Phantom harder against his palm, his index finger loosening slightly.

  Kitool wielded Tigerstaff as though it were a walking stick, gently pressing it against the earth with every other step. She inhaled deeply, calming her heart from the initial fear which had frozen her body. She remained on the right fnk, which soothed her.

  ‘Katool will enjoy this tale.’

  Battle OrderD20 + 1 = 17 (16)

  Jurot leapt into the fray, swinging his axe wildly as he always did, a the darkness as though it were but a beast. Phantom tore through the bess, and though Jurot swore he would have mortally wounded an Expert, the darkness seemed as ever present as it had been before his wild blows. The darkness seeped within his body as he tried to prepare himself.

  Kitool’s staff swam through the creature, also flowing through it near harmlessly. She was certain she would have mortally wounded an Expert, yet the darkness seemed to enpass her, sappirength.

  The bess began to swallow the pair whole, threatening to slip them into Baktu’s embrace. Yet, a light fshed beside the pair of Iyrmen.

  Fighting Spirit: 3 -> 2

  Attack - WraithD20 + 10 = 27 (17)D20 + 10 = 28 (18)Hit!Wraith: 3 -> 2Mana: 21 -> 20Ability: Divine Smite2D6 + 2D6 + 3D6 + 9 = 30 (4, 5)(1, 1)(2, 4, 4)Damage resisted!Damage vulnerability!39 damage!

  Health: 78 -> 75

  Attack - WraithD20 + 10 = 12 (2)D20 + 10 = 13 (3)Miss!

  Wraith fshed white hot with holy magics, cutting through the creature’s darkness, illuminating Adam’s panions. Adam swung once more, though the darkness slipped around his head, stealing his warmth.

  The back of Adam’s head grew cold as he realised what had happehis creature had certainly taken enough damage to deal with pretty muy Grandmaster, a was still threatening to e the epost.

  Adam realised why the baron was so terrified of this creature, and why the Iyr had warned him.

  Onward Soar: 1 -> 0

  Mana: 19 -> 18Spell: Thunderous Smite

  Attack - WraithD20 + 10 = 24 (14)D20 + 10 = 29 (19)Critical Hit!Wraith: 2 -> 0Mana: 18 -> 15Ability: Divine Smite4D6 + 4D6 + 8D6 + 10D6 + 9 = 107 (4, 5, 6, 6)(1, 3, 4, 5)(1, 1, 1, 2, 3, 3, 6, 6)(3, 3, 3, 3, 4, 4, 5, 5, 5, 6)Damage resisted!Damage vulnerability!139 damage!

  Health: 75 -> 71

  Attack - WraithD20 + 10 = 19 (9)D20 + 10 = 30 (20)Critical Hit!Mana: 15 -> 12Ability: Divine Smite4D6 + 10D6 + 9 = 55 (1, 2, 4, 4)(2, 2, 3, 3, 3, 4, 4, 5, 5, 6)Damage vulnerability!90 damage!

  Health: 71 -> 69

  “You o be cut down to size!” Adam shouted, his voice full of magical fervour, Wraith vibrating within his hand as it crashed against the darkness. Wraith exploded the darkness, the light fshing against the darkness, which pulled away for a moment, a Adam stepped forward, wing from the darkness which shed out against him.

  Adam’s brow began to sweat heavily as he realised that the creature, whatever it was, still bhe sky around them. ‘God! Damn!’ Yet, he marched forward, for behind him were his panions, who were readying themselves to strike again.

  Wraith fshed white hot with holy magic again, and though much of the darkness had thinned out, it still covered the group, blotting out the stars.

  ‘What the hell?’ Adam grit his teeth and braced for the darko swallow him while he prepared to swing Wraith once more, calling forth more holy magibsp;

  Jurot and Kitool both uood. They uood that Adam, with his Wraith charges, with his Divine Smite, with his Thunderous Smite, and striking true within the creature, had dohe most damage he had ever dohin the span of moments.

  Yet, somehow, whatever this creature was, it still threateo swallow them.

  They had dealt more than enough damage to kill Dragoweehree of them, even the likes of Fryn, no doubt, ahis force of nature, that was utter bess, tio encroach around them.

  A light shone across the trio, illuminating their backs, before it fshed past them, the young Iyrman throwing her entire body into the darkness as her bde cut through it. Jaygak, who had stepped down from the tour before even pg within it, charged face first into the bess.

  Great Moon’s light diminished within the darkness as it engulfed the four, rapidly ing the four insignifit gnats within.

  Health: 69 -> 47

  The baron stared, mouth agape towards the four fools. Even watg the meraries being swallowed whole hadn’t deterred them from stepping forward to meet the challenge of the nightmare. He felt a hand at his shoulder, the knight beside him trying to pull his lord away, though his owrembled from the sight.

  “We must-,” the knight began, only to stop as his eyes darted towards the darkness.

  A single beam of light peeked through from the inside of the still darkness, before several more beams of light pierced through the mass of bck, until the darkness exploded with radiahe figures trapped within the darkness, the meraries which thebBaron had paid good for, y on the ground dead.

  Four stood tall, ons midway through striking at the phantom threat which had disappeared, as though it were truly only a nightmare. One grey, another purple, a third red, and the st, pale white.

  Adam panted, his heart pounding within his chest. A deep chill seeped through into the core of his being, but the light radiating from Great Moon warmed his heart. His eyes darted around, trying to find the rest of the darkness, but the torches grew brighter and flickered with joy.

  Victory!XP Gained: +2000XP: 11 900 -> 13 900

  ‘Crazy,’ Adam thought, before inhaling deeply, g his fists tight as his muscles flexed before they rexed.

  Tough Spirit: 1 -> 02D6 + 6 = 12 (1, 5) Health: 47 -> 59

  “Adam,” Jaygak said, waving Great Moon to illumihe area around them, but its light couldn’t pierce the stone nearby.

  No, it wasn’t a sto moved too much to be a stone, pulsing every few moments.

  “How ominous,” Adam stated, staring at it, watg as it sucked in the light. “I hope that no one has any issues with us taking the spoils?” He gnced around, noting the terrified faces, the dozens of unscious bodies, as well as the handful which y forever still. His eye’s then caught the baron’s, who seemed to still be gripped by a heinous terror.

  The entire area was still nearly ice cold, the fmes barely beginning to beat back the chill which had taken the nd. The baron remained shuddering, not just from the cold, but from the sheer terror which had gripped him. His eyes remained focused on Adam, though his vision had grown blurry, his eyes twitg.

  Baron Kegan ched his fists tight, letting out a long exhale as he tried to calm himself, his breath visible in the air before it dissipated. He could still feel the hand against his shoulder, his knights ready to assist him still, even though they had most certainly been overwhelmed by the creature and the sight.

  “I do not believe anyone would disagree such a request by our saviour,” Baron Kegan Rockcastle stated, his face still pale, his smile cold, lips shuddering.

  “What do you think?” Adam asked, staring down at the pulsi. “We should probably tain it somehow.

  “Yes,” Jurot replied, also thinking about how to take the heart. “We need a silver box.”

  “A silver box?”

  “A silver box will keep the magitained.”

  “That’s going to cost a lot of money.”

  “Yes.”

  “Well, I hope the lord is feeling grateful, because I don’t think we afford that.”

  Jurot nodded.

  “The matter will be dealt with,” the baron said, letting out another exhale as his heart tio pound wildly within his chest.

  “Oh, brilliant. Thank you, my lord.” Adam gently bowed his head, smiling at the baron. ‘A heart made of some kind of shadow thing? That’s so cool!’

  ‘He knows magic,’ the baron thought. ‘So he’s… he’s not a Vor? He’s no mortal, like us?’ The baron swallowed. ‘Is that why I am so pleasant with him? Has he charmed me with his wicked magics?’

  The baron’s heart was still weak from the enter with it, so he stumbled his way back to his tent, thinking deeply on such a terrifying matter. ‘A Night Lord! A Night Lord who walk in the light?’

  The partly dealt more than 500 damage and Jaygak did 1/4 of it. She did more than Kitool and Jurot, even with Tigerstaff and Phantom. I think she critically hit two or three times.