Fighting the red eyed wolf

[1 kill, +10 mp]

Two of the scorpions were already dead, their bodies lying still and lifeless in the sand.

The other two had been wounded in the battle, their bodies immobilized and twitching in the aftermath of the fight.

They were still alive, though barely, their remaining life force dwindling away as their bodies struggled to recover from the wounds that I had inflicted.

With a purposeful stride, I approached the nearest immobilized scorpion. Its body was still, its limbs splayed out in a lifeless sprawl. 

It was a pathetic sight, a creature that had once been a force to be reckoned with now reduced to little more than a dying husk.

I raised my sword into the air, the blade gleaming in the desert sun. 

With a single, swift stroke, I brought the sword down onto the scorpion's head, the steel biting deep into the creature's skull with a sickening crunch.

[1 kill, +10 mp]