Demon Tree Guardians

'Damn. After everything I threw at him, he still had a hand to play.'

Aksai cursed in his heart as he saw what was in front of him.

The demon tree guardians were a sight to behold, monstrous and fearsome in their appearance. Emerging from the rifts, they took on humanoid forms, yet their bodies were anything but human.

Their skin resembled the bark of gnarled trees, cracked and rough, with a texture that seemed to absorb the very light around them.

Elongated limbs stretched out from their torsos, each arm and leg unnaturally long, giving them a distorted appearance. The limbs were pierced in multiple locations with metal rods, which jutted out at odd angles, reinforcing their already formidable structure.