348 - Bone and Muck

I came up near a tree trunk, ducking just as the riding lizard's tail lash struck the same.

he taunted.

[You have struck your target with a YELLOW critical for double damage.]

Nothing came flying off him, but there was a deep cut in his side.

he activated.

Swish, swish, swish, went his claws as [Wild Dance] kept me well out of harm's way.

I told him.

He fell back before Heart's Defender, and lunged in. It seems so predictable, in hindsight. Even while my weapon was disappearing into my inventory, my empty hand came back, the fingers extending, splaying.

I caught his neck, my talons curving into the side, spraying him, myself, the entire glen with his blood. My Might was five, my Strength a six, and [Slayer of Beasts] added two on top of it. Sixteen base damage, as much as my yellow critical without the ability.