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He was more distracted by Chloe who summoned a dozen immaculate white lances from a bottle at her side, the cum lances hovered in the air over the backs of a dozen kobolds promising swift death.

Averys couldn't help himself. "What the hell is that Chloe? Since when could you do anything like that! You don't have that level or ability or skill!"

"Shut up Averys," said Chloe, ignoring the agitated paladin, her cheeks going a little pink.

The bands were ready, blades and arrows and magic all pointed at the unknowing Kobogons.

Ellaria and Braddox turned eyes on Baerinda. The minotaur still atop Fey bit her lip then nodded.

"So be it," said Braddox, "On three. One. two. -"

All the adventurers moved at the same time and the air was suddenly filled with screams. Cum lances plunged down instantly skewering hearts, green and black fireballs slipped inside open mouths, wreaking havoc on the unfortunate Kobogon's insides and destroying their lungs leaving them choking and dying. Axes and swords fell, Raeger's bow loosed taking one through the back of the head as he nocked another arrow.

Even as this slaughter happened the Kobogons who were not being attacked carried on their conversations, completely oblivious to the fact that their comrades were being killed right in front of them. When one fell across another they simply laughed and pushed their corpse onto the ground mocking them for getting blood drunk.

The two bands moved efficiently, as soon as the first strike had taken place they were already moving on to the next.

But as Vivi's blade decapitated her target and its head flipped and tumbled through the air a light of shocked understanding seemed to go through its still momentarily alive head, as well as a flash of magic. The head landed in the lap of another Kobogon and they picked it up rolling their eyes with mirth.

"Oh really? if you do not wish to feed then it is I who shall make up the difference," said the Kobogon in Common.

The Kobogon opened its mouth to take a bite out of its comrade's severed head, but then the severed head reacted and a cone of fire exploded from its mouth. The Kobogon screamed as its upper body was engulfed and it used its own magic. A hailstorm of needles suddenly exploded from its black scales, a shower of slender agony that shot in every direction, everyone still upright being struck by the vicious little things, the needles digging deep into flesh and eliciting howls.

Agitation. Instant agitation.

The illusion Broke and the remaining Kobogons went from cheerful eating to fury as the adventures were revealed amongst them and all hell broke loose.

The Kobogons didn't hesitate for a moment and they put the full breadth of their magic to use, a positive broadside barrage of spells exploded at the bands. Worse, it seemed they had a fire manipulator amongst their number as the green fireballs in the choking Kobogons were pulled free, which didn't help much with the Kobogon's destroyed insides, but that still left Ellaria desperately fighting for control over her own extremely dangerous fireballs.

Astrid screamed a warcry and charged into battle, a gigantic red and black halberd forming in her hands which she swung down as hard as she could.

Braddox let out a bullish roar and switched to a massive hammer pulled from his back, or at least that was what it looked to be at first glance, the hammer was in fact a massive solid iron blacksmith's anvil atop a leather grip staff. He swung it and the unfortunate Kobogon that took the hit didn't so much as die but splash, cratering into the ground and causing fractures to run across the cave floor for dozens of feet in every direction. The captain didn't pause and used the momentum to leap forward ripping it from the crater and swinging it around, it hit a second Kobogon and they were launched into the nearest wall where they became a bloody smear dotted with scales.

Despite the bands' extreme aggression the Kobogons were not going down easy and the adventurers were taking hits. Averys ran past holding a shoulder wound, his situational awareness shot. A disc of darkness was flung from one particular furious Kobogon and took him in the hip. He fell, or rather the top half of him did, his legs managed to make it a few more steps before toppling over. He looked at his severed body in abject horror even as his guts spilt free and puddled on the cave floor in a steaming mess.