Bartuc swung his hammer into the thriving mass of a former corpse while his axe tore into its chest mid-transformation and repeated the swing two or three more times to be sure of the things demise before hitting another such creature with a backhand swing of his mace stumbled another creature momentarily while he leaped backwards while more and more of the horrors rose from their short sleep. Karl was jumped, Ruinil was fighting, and Henry was likely cursing his ill fortune. Nobody could blame him for the incident. There was no way for them to ever know such a fate would occur by tampering with the circle.
Bartuc ducked below a toothy lunge of a creature and retaliated with his axe cleaving through both its stubby legs. A similar strike broke the leg of another such abomination as it nearly clamped down on his shoulder, the axe came around in full to smash its teeth out as the man roared his anger into its 'face', a fireball exploding in its body that even sent the big man flying backwards, coming up on his stomach groaning. "I hate today." He mumbled, finding his legs underneath him in time to deliver an overhead chop that severed a kest monstrosity clean in half down the middle.


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Marcus' guess had proved correct as the corpses stomach spewed out its vile contents in a shower of gore as the worker kest tried to claw its way at him but was met with a blinding ray of light that burned it to ashes along with a large chunk of the incubator corpse. More and more were about the spew and he worked fast, deftly placing his thumb and forefinger on a different rune along the handle to produce a different shot. Instead of a beam of light it was like a deafening boom of scattered pellets that tore the corpses and their half-human half-kest children to dust in an instant. Two more similar shots were fired into the deepest pile of corpses to similar effect. 

Marco called for them to hustle as he fought with a great deal of accuracy on his own part. Those gauntlets proved to be stronger than they looked, and far more accurate too. Marcus made a note to study them later if the opportunity arose. How shocked he was when he noticed they had retracted into bladed gloves. Fascinating!
Another blast from his weapon tore three more kest from life in a shower of incinerated flesh scraps. "lead on! I will cover the rear!" His rapier hummed as it cut through the air, cutting limbs and eyes from the monsters.