Mana Blast + Stem Sword 2

She was about to take the behemoth’s other arm off when the second creature charged hard into her side. But as she fell, she kicked away and turned, whipping half its tentacles off with a puff of emerald-colored mana.

She landed just as the tree shifted to the right. Its flat root ball heaved up and out of the ground, slapping Nissa violently against the giant creature. She clambered up its back and onto its shoulders, and wrapped her stem sword around what should have been its neck. As she pulled and twisted, the creature’s hundreds of blue eyes blinked and turned to look at her, but still the creature did not stop pushing. She’d seen single-minded animals in her life, but never anything like the giant. She pulled hard for some minutes, and began to fear that the creature had some enchantment about it, but eventually she heard a crack and the creature went slack and fell forward into the trunk.

They must have a spine, Nissa thought. She looked around as she sheathed her stem sword in her staff once again.


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In the Teeth of Akoum, Chapter 1