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Siena's emerald javelin hit its lumbering mark, piercing deeply into the quadruped's side. The impact of the projectile threw the monster to its side. Its pre-existing clumsiness and exhaustion from bleeding out rendered it unable to get back upright. Siena's attack had ruptured enough vitals to ensure a slow, painful death. Without the means or mobility to recover, the hippo head released a feeble death moan. It was left unheard by its comrades.
Meanwhile, the beetle man continued its march towards the trench, getting dangerously close while the trench team prepared their simultaneous attacks. A squawk from the captive fish alerted the beetle man of the incoming projectile. Displaying fearsome reflexes, the humanoid smacked the incoming corpse out of its way, using its hapless subordinate as a makeshift bat. It barely missed a step before the student's co-ordinated strategies came into fruition. Almost at the exact same time, the hidden grenade exploded and Lily's injury transfer hit the beetle man. Both the humanoid and the fish were blown away, the concussive force of the explosion killing the fish almost immediately. Shrapnel flew everywhere, many pieces embedding themself into the left side of the beetle man's body. Its armored plates were shattered, revealing mottled and scarred flesh underneath. It groaned in pain, somehow still alive from everything that just happened. With half of its body disabled and broken by the grenade and one kneecap shattered, it presented little threat to the humans in the trench. Despite its condition it pushed forward, clawing at the dirt with its remaining functioning limb. The beetle man's mouth flaps were wide open for the students to see, showing rows of crooked, sharp teeth as it screamed in fury.
A flurry of movement from the fallen quadruped's direction caught the scorpion's coffee-stained eye, a small cloud of aquamarine travelling rapidly towards it. The scorpion hissed aggressively, batting Cal to the ground with a brutal lash of its stinger. She wasn't able to stop the scorpion in time. Undeterred by the sudden arrival of a human opponent, the scorpion finished its casting. A beam of emerald lit up the sky a split second before a plume of green fog erupted from the scorpion and engulfed the battlefield. Monsters and humans alike were affected by the fog. Nausea and minor dizziness swept the battlefield as the fog's initial symptoms began to kick in. Things would only deteriorate from here on out.