Silhouettes
Night ambush, especially in a forest, was one of the hardest battles to fight according to Emery's late father. Indeed, Emery could claim true to this sentence. A simple rustling of the leaves, a wind blowing in their direction, a crunching branch, not knowing what was behind a tree, etc. wrecked the nerves of some fighters Luna had hired to join this expedition from being on-guard at all times. Due to the all-time-high tension, several paid fighters had already ran away even before the battle had started.
However, the deafening shout from Gregory the Giant reverberated in their bones, giving the rest who had stayed courage to charge in.
Still it was difficult to see with only the torches as well as the bonfire; the darkness also made it difficult to gauge how many humanoid silhouettes that had beasts heads were there exactly behind the trees.