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Chapter 181: Betrayed, Part 3

Telmé heard them scream, but in the very next breath the screams were gone. Telmé went for his sword and made to run—and snarled when Esbjörn slammed a hand into his chest. "Stay," Esbjörn snapped before running down the hill as the things began eating the Dredknights and Necromancers.

Babies, Telmé realized. The damned leviathan had been pregnant and the babies had become dead-walkers alongside their mother. Damn it.

One of them finished its Dredknight meal and threw itself at the nearest Titan, who was already covered in six more of the things. The Titan fell with a high, startled, pain-soaked scream, dark red-black blood pouring out across the snow. Esbjörn screamed as he cut down two of the nasty creatures but was pounced from behind by a third. Telmé snarled and ran, drawing his sword and calling up hellfire. Leaping over one of the Titans, he came down with a scream and burst of flames, landing in a cluster of baby leviathans feeding on the remains of a Dredknight.