"Cough, cough cough!"
The Paladin coughed as he stood up from the rubble, holding his longsword in one hand, and looked around. The beam of light had come so suddenly that he hadn't had time to react. Fortunately, as a Paladin, he was robust. If it had been a normal person, they might have been killed by now...
"Hey, are you alright!"
While shouting, the Paladin reached out and grabbed a sleeve from the rubble nearby, then dragged the Mage out from it.
"Are you still alive?"
"I'm not dead yet, can't you be gentler? If you pull any harder, I might actually die here... cough cough... watch out!"
Before the Mage had finished speaking, two Demon Wolves suddenly leaped out in front of them, one from the left and one from the right, lunging at the pair. The Paladin quickly turned and swung his sword at the Demon Wolves, knocking them down to the ground.
"Oww... oww..."