[@thewizardguy][@Gardevoiran][@KoL]

[h2][center][color=fff200]Saef Harken
Lenuria-Less Giant Monsters and Khaine[/color][/center][/h2]

One gauntleted hand grabbed the vine rope as it swept through empty water, its target having once again vanished. Saef's original plan had been to whip the Demon on its end around like a flail the next time the teleporting pest appeared. He wasn't sure why one of the fell creatures was attacking its fellow nor did he particularly care. It just meant that many less to hunt down himself. The sphere of freezing portals appearing around him put a hold on that unfortunately.

Now moving towards an expanding wall of ice he acted quickly. Spells formed in his mind and rippled out ahead of with a flick of his reformed scepter. The almost invisible bolts of energy slammed into the portals freezing the water ahead of them. Icy gateways flickered and wavered, not completely negated but certainly strained and unable to convey their full chill.

Pouring on an extra burst of speed he crossed the remaining few meters in a flash. Flipping around at the last second to deliver a flying kick to the frigid barrier. Only feet thick instead of yards due to the disrupted portals, the ice shattered at the kinetic forces brought to bear upon it. Saef continued his spin as his momentum carried him out past the sphere. Hauling the Demon on the vine out behind him and hurling him at Khaine.

[i][color=fff200]Karzani's great ugly mug that's a ####ing huge snake! And that noise came from...the #### is that?[/color][/i]

Back down on the ground the 1st Mechanized troops had been busy sifting through the treasures of the dead crabs. Normally stuff like this would have waited for after the battle but what with the whole reason for this battle possibly lying within the hoards of glittering and magical items they had to step up the timetable a bit. It certainly didn't hurt that the sale of such treasures would help purchase the massive amount of raw materials the 1st Mechanized was using in their construction projects.

Further in-field resource gathering was cut short by the whine of laser fire from the outer pickets. Reports came in moments later as the pickets fell back towards the platoon. Some new force had showed up and there were a [i]lot[/i] of them. Teeth, claws, aquatic looking. Pretty much everything one would expect from a deep sea horror movie.

Well at least they knew the genre for today's battle. [i]Yay.[/i]

Wasting no time Saef's second in command pulled the platoon out of the exposed square and into a series of easily defendable buildings at its edge. With interlocking lines of fire and an open kill field they would be able to hold out until the Captain finished his fight overhead.