Skeleton Officer

The Augias they had rescued earlier was one of the most massive, but it was only the third largest of its group. Two other creatures towered over it by several meters, the dominant ones of the herd.

The remaining six creatures were almost half the size, more like the height of an ordinary giraffe. Their strength was much less, but their mobility was far superior to that of the three behemoths. Ikaris determined that they were juveniles.

Scanning the battlefield more carefully, Malia suddenly pointed her finger at the largest Augias and shouted, "Hey, look!"

Ikaris and the others followed the direction of her finger and noticed a frightened tenth Augias, tiny compared to the other nine. This one was cowering terrorized between the legs of the largest Augias, who consequently didn't dare move for fear of exposing its offspring to the hungry Skeletons.