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The sudden loud noise of giant moving chains occurred as the bridge began to lower from his placement above them.

But as people congratulated Alex Rael heard a chittering and then the sound of movement. She had thought she heard heavy breathing before Alex shot his shot, but she wasn’t sure. She wish she had asked if anyone else had heard it. It unnerved her and the entire group heard a loud, guttural hissing scream that filled the echoes of the cavern from above—from the top of the bridge that was now being lowered. What the hell had they just woken up? 

In a few moments Rael realized what that answer was.

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A [url=https://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m8uokqIpEM1qhejigo1_500.gif]dire bat[/url]. 

The group pushed backward, away from the bridge to put some space between them and their new foe. As they did so it appeared they had the worst luck as the sound of tumbling, cracking rocks from behind them. Before long several of the walls of the room collapsed to reveal gnoll resting spots and another group of cave gnolls armed with bloodied pickaxes came running at Graves and the entire back-line. Gnolls at their back and a dire back at their front.

“Get them!” One of the gnolls hissed, though Rael had immediately kept her focus on the bat that was four times her size in front of her.

Rael eyed the creature as she kept her composure, though she noticed one particular thing about the creature. [i]‘It’s injured?’[/i] The thought was pretty easy to connect now that the creature had swooped down from its slumber on the raised bridge. One of its eyes was clawed shut and its wings were bloodied and ripped. Dried blood covered its entire torso as it shambled forward, growling with all the force it had left. Another twist in the game. Minibosses tended to not have quirks like this, but at least it was injured. At least Alja was by her side to face the bat head-on.

[color=#A84B5E]“Alex, go give Graves support! Now!”[/color] She ordered, telling the archer to shoot at the amount of gnolls coming at them from behind. She wasn’t the leader, but it was her instinct. Alex could shoot more gnolls than help against the main threat and the faster the gnolls went down the sooner Graves could join them to finish off whatever was left of the bat. 






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