Meanwhile deeper in the catacombs...
A knight in a suit of metal armor had led the charge, valiantly defending as the vanguard by using the protection of his armor and the sword and shield to keep the skeletons at bay. Meanwhile behind him a sorcerer was chanting incantations, firing projectile after projectile at ghostly phantoms floating in the air. The fiery arrows seemed to keep the phantoms at bay, as if terrified to get close to the one conjuring these vile flames.
Meanwhile further behind the sorcerer was a priestess clad in the robes of the faith that worshipped the Divine Illumin. She whispered prayers to her deity, which in return caused her healing magic to allow the knight to regain his vigor and the skeletons to recoil in dread at the holy magic.
"Just a little! We almost got to the source of unrest in these catacombs! Hang on my friends!"
The knight exclaimed as he struck down one of the skeletons. At the same time the sorcerer finished chanting yet another spell, a wave of lightning crashing down onto the skeletons and scattering their ranks, but any momentary rejoice at their encroaching victory was coldly erased when a scream came from behind them.
"What the---"
The sorcerer turned around, to their disbelief the priestess that had been healing them at the back had been ambushed, her body coiled around by some sort of giant creature that reminded the sorcerer of a snake, if not for the insectoid nature of its body.
"Unhand her at once!" The sorcerer commanded, raising a spell when a voice called coldly from the shadows behind her. "Don't... you will hurt her... Koh-chan doesn't like it when you injure pretty girls."
The sorcerer yelped in surprise as they turned around, to their disbelief they initially thought they saw a child with wolf-like features, but as the shadows crept closer it was clearly a wrong description: While her upper-body was that of a child, the rest of her body seemingly had been integrated into some giant centipede! Before the sorcerer could even make any reaction a large clawed appendage sliced through their body, severing them cleanly at the waist!
Of course the knight tried to turn to help his allies, but a handful of the remaining skeletons had ambushed him, their swords hacking and cutting onto him as their collective weight overwhelmed him. The phantoms moved closer, but the lass growled at them. "Back off... she is mine."
WC: 400
Total WC: 800/1000