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Chapter 32: Pain, Part 5

He counted ten before the fighting began, but he knew the number exceeded that, and if there was an entire gathering of wyverns then something still out of sight was controlling them. Alrin snarled as one of the wyverns came crashing down, felled by a Paladin's lance. He swung his glaive, slicing open its throat. He shifted and swung again to catch the edge of the blade where the wyvern's scales were soft, and from there tore open its gut.

"Behind!"

Alrin whipped around, dropping to a defensive crouch as a figure in a mix of leather and plate armor came charging at him with sword drawn and shield up. He tensed to lunge—and relaxed when a Paladin got the bastard in the back with a well-placed dagger before bolting off to the next assailant.