‘At least they’re not normal bears,’ Adam thought.

  In the distahey came, a group of a hundred or so. They were bears the size of men, their furs a multitude of browns and reds. Between their shoulders were a pair of heads, whiapped with frenzied delight.

  The ground rumbled, all the while Dunes and Vonda muttered their prayers to their Goddesses.

  “Nock!” John shouted, causing the three archers to draw their bows.

  Three arrows shot towards the heavens as the group prepared themselves. The arrows struck a bear or two from their multiple waves, but they did not down a single duabear.

  Mana: 18 -> 15Spell: Fireball8D6 = 24 (1, 1, 1, 3, 3, 3, 5, 6)23 damage!

  Mana: 15 -> 12Spell: Fireball8D6 = 32 (2, 2, 3, 4, 4, 5, 6, 6)32 damage!

  Adam weaved his magic, feeling his Mana rush from his heart to his fiips. Fire roared around the duabears, sileng a few of them as they tio charge. Some had already moved away from the group, charging towards the sed outpost, while a handful took pause, surprised by the fmes which had appeared around them. Many had fallen to Adam’s Fireballs, killing at least a dozen of them, if not more, along with the waves of javelins and arrows.

  The front gate ened and the bridge lowered, with the group ready to funnel in the remaining duabears, brag themselves. The two Aldish panions took their pce up front as the shields, having informed Jurot of their pn, and Jurot had vinced Adam. The farmers remained behind them, with pikes close at hand. All the while Lucy, Kitool, and Jurot prepared to fnk the duabears.

  They had to be careful, however, as the duabears could climb up the walls, so Jonn remained back with the archers and Nobby, while Vonda and Dunes prepared their Spirit Sentinels he closest two ers of the fort. Jaygak and Adam remained near one of the Priests at each er.

  They all tio rain javelins from their positions, trying to thin down the giant mass of duabears, while Adam shot out his Fme Bolt stantly.

  Then came the shout.

  “Do it!” Adam shouted, as the pair of Priests ted their spells, causing swords and maces made of light to fly out, whigulfed a rge portion of the fort, as well as the outside.

  Adam didn’t expeother fsh of light, as Jaygak extended out her hands, calling forth her own magics. A bst of fire engulfed a few duabears, causing them to shriek in pain as they were lit afme, and four fell to the fmes.

  Adam did not allow the fusion to st long as the two groups crashed against one another.

  Jurot and Lucy crashed against the duabears from across the ditch, r with bloodlust, and Kitool fell with them, Seekerstaff in hand. Jurot cut a duabear in half, while Lucy almost cut another. Kitool mao strike one ihroat, causing it to fall into the ditch, which would take it out of the fight for a short while.

  Fighting Spirit: 3 -> 2

  Attack - Wizard’s Axe, FnkingD20 + 8 = 23 (15)D20 + 8 = 23 (15)Hit!2D6 + 5 = 9 (2, 2)9 damage!

  Attack - Wizard’s Axe, FnkingD20 + 8 = 10 (2)D20 + 8 = 12 (4)Hit!2D6 + 5 = 12 (3, 4)12 damage!

  Onward Soar: 1 -> 0

  Mana: 12 -> 11Spell: Hex

  Attack - Wizard’s Axe, Fnking, HexD20 + 8 = 9 (1)D20 + 8 = 20 (12)Hit!2D6 + 1D6 + 5 = 13 (2, 2)(4)13 damage!

  Attack - Wizard’s Axe, Fnking, HexD20 + 8 = 10 (2)D20 + 8 = 12 (4)Hit!2D6 + 1D6 + 5 = 13 (3, 3)(2)13 damage!

  Health: 65 -> 56

  stitution SaveD20 + 5 = 14 (9)

  The duabears had been slowed by the Spirit Sentinels, which struck at the creatures with religious fervour. Adam cut through a duabear with two blows, his mind focused, before he inhaled, flexing his muscles. “Hey!” Adam snarled, casting his Hex on another duabear, before swiping awo blows to sy it. It fell, but as it did, another shed out towards Adam, grazing his side with its vile cws, almost causing him to drop his focus on Hex.

  Vonda aimed her mace from beside him, but couldn’t find purchase on a creature, too focused on keeping her spell up.

  Nobby roared eagerly, hag a duabear which had climbed up towards him, almost splitting its skull, as Brittany pierced through the sed head’s eyes with an arrow, causing it to fall below.

  Jonn remained he pair, his own bde pierg through a duabear, before lightning crackled from beside him. The duabear, which had been skewered by his bde was forced back by the lightning, and Shamia focused on another creature which roag them.

  “Thank you,” Jonn said, simply, bde in hand.

  “It is no problem,” Lady Shamia said, as her bodyguards skewered their own duabears with ease.

  The farmers with their pikes stabbed away at the duabears in front of the two Aldishmen, who seemed awfully fine sidering they were being bitten and torn apart by cws, a only their clothing seemed to be falling.

  Javelins skewered a set of a duabears which were climbing up from the side, with the prabbing another set, and Fred calling for where they should fall, tossing his own javelin.

  The duabears struck at the pair ing warriors nearby, though their blows were superficial, not even drawing their blood, all the while a handful had mao climb the walls.

  Attack - Wizard’s Axe, Fnking, HexD20 + 8 = 25 (17)Hit!2D6 + 1D6 + 5 = 19 (6, 6)(2)19 damage!

  Attack - Wizard’s Axe, FnkingD20 + 8 = 27 (19)Critical hit!4D6 + 5 = 16 (1, 3, 3, 4)16 damage!

  Adam shifted his Hex upon the bear which had struck his side. “e here!” Adam growled, cutting it across its neck, causing it to drop, before he struother, cutting through its shoulder, kig it off of the wall. He was gd that the duabears had been peppered by arrows and javelins, otherwise he would have only killed one.

  Vonda’s mace smmed across another duabear, which fell down, the maces of light striking it on the way down to finish it off.

  “Nice,” Adam said, nodding his head.

  Vonda sighed, sadly, knowing that she had to kill the creatures, but she took no delight with the task.

  Kitool killed another, and forced two different duabears into the pit, while Lud Jurot sughtered another set each.

  Jaygak and Dunes were having their own fun, Stormdrake crag with lightning, and Dunes’ Sword, Adam’s sed greatest creation, fshing white hot with radiance as Dunes skewered a duabear.

  “On your left!” Fred shouted, as the porters retreated, throwing their javelins to strike a duabear, before Fred pierced through a skull, the duabear trying to bite at him with its jaws, but it shuddered.

  Nobby and Brittany pulled back as a duabear tried to overwhelm them, but an arrow pierced through its neck from the deadwood bow, and Jonn’s bde fshed white hot as he pierced through its back, letting it drop, before his bde cut through another duabear’s neck, causing it to drop into the pit.

  Shamia ted, pg her hands together, and she bsted three duabears with her fmes, killing them, and the bodyguards smmed another down, before finishing it off.

  Adam gnced around, noting that most of the duabears had been sin, and only a handful remaihere was ohin the camp, which found itself being skewered between two giant elks, as the st few were finished off by bde, javelin, and arrows.

  “Nobby! Brittany!” Adam shouted, quickly darting towards the pair. “You two okay?”

  “Good,” Nobby said, having mao block the blows from the duabears.

  Brittany nodded. “I’m fine.”

  “Good!” Adam said, enthusiastically. “Good.” He pat their shoulders. “You did great!”

  “That was… much easier than I thought,” Brittany said.

  “Brittany,” Adam warned, raising his brows. “What did I say about deathfgs?”

  Victory!DuabearsXP Gained: +1600XP: 10 750 -> 12 350

  Kitool, Jurot, and Lucy had returned much ter, after assisting the nearby outpost. They were the swiftest moving from the group, so Adam left it to them, trusting them to not get iheir heads.

  “Finally,” Lucy said, resting up against the wall.

  “We o rest before the sed wave appears,” Adam said, lookiween them all. “You know, being in a fort makes it all so easy.”

  Shamia looked over towards the ditch, which was half full of duabears. “We will o clear it out, otherwise it will not be quite so useful.”

  “Will it be duabears again?” Adam asked.

  “Most likely, though the sed wave is usually easier than the first.”

  “I’ve still got two more Fireballs,” Adam said.

  “I set some arrows afme,” Jaygak said.

  “What?” Adam asked. “Hold on. Since when could you shoot fire?”

  “Last year.”

  “Last year? And you didn’t use it once?”

  “I’ve never o,” Jaygak said, simply.

  “What about the fire arrows?” Adam asked.

  Jaygak nodded.

  “Jaygak…” Adam sighed, exasperated.

  The Devilkin smiled.

  Rid the farmers all gathered together, cheg up on one another, while Adam went around the groups, before resting himself.

  ‘So much XP!’ Adam thought. ‘Damn. This fort is pretty overpowered too. Don’t they say that forts make it so that each person ts as ten?’ He looked out to the group, twenty tw. ‘Yeah, sounds abht.’

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  Jaygak just casually keeping her magic a secret.