Frostbound

Chris

Shouts and roars followed after giving the order to charge and were all that could be heard as my feet propelled me forward. With every step, I prepared for what was to come.

I didn't know how long this battle would last, but I couldn't afford to keep anything back. My job was to cause as much mayhem as possible and to do that required my full strength. The small rodent monster I had stored next to me died silently and was the first casualty of the day.

It would be far from the last.

[Momentum of the Avalanche] started to build as I had kept a monster for that sole reason. [Righteous Fury] was lined up to activate as soon as we crashed into our foes.

Speaking of our foes, they felt the disturbance of our charge and I could see them rush mindlessly toward us, the same as we did to them. We had stayed out of sight to keep the element of surprise but that was broken as we charged.

Hounds larger than any Doberman I had ever seen with devilish flames rolling off their forms were just one among the many.

All manner of grotesque Demonlings made up a large portion of the bodies we ran towards. Their shapes and sizes made one ever so different than the next. Some with spear-like limbs ran toward us with every step piercing into the ground while others with club-like feet thudded forward. Bulbous and disgusting imps flew in the air at head height.

Even worse were the nearly humanoid Lesser Demons. They were an evolved version of Demonlings that usually increased their intelligence and changed their forms into something more bipedal. Not all were bipedal, but more likely than not they were.

As my eyes roved over the sea of monsters we charged toward, they focused on the Lesser Demons first because they were the biggest threat I could see. They had the intelligence and cunning that the rest didn't.

The second biggest threat was when I noticed the growing forms of... something coming together. I wasn't sure what I was looking at at first. It started as a large blob of body parts and blackened flesh, then it started to grow.

Demonlings bunched together in large piles of bodies and began to morph into each other in some way. I was too far away to hear anything, especially against the pounding feet of our charge, but my mind didn't have any trouble conjuring the squelches and squeals that I imagined it sounded like.