Rakdos vs. Glint-Eye Nephilim

The nephilim flexed its coils and whipped its body at the demon in a desperate attempt to grasp onto and choke the life from the unholy guildmaster. Rakdos brought up a hoof and drove the mizzium spear out of the snake-thing’s back, drove the second hoof against the round metallic mouth, and caved that in on one side. Finally, Rakdos dived again. The nephilim’s momentum carried its serpentine body into the air while the demon plummeted in the opposite direction, headed straight for Vitu Ghazi. The snake-thing’s entire body whipped around to follow, still writhing pitiably, until it struck the side of the tree and was impaled on a row of spiky branches. They were part of the increasingly insular Conclave’s new defensive tactics, and in this bizarre case, at least, Kos thought they worked like charms.

The snake-nephilim twitched for a few seconds as its blood drained away down the side of the Unity Tree then its body drooped against the mammoth trunk just as a small army of ledev guardians swarmed toward it.

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Dissension, Chapter 16