Elomir under siege (2) - Fighting a Night Terror

"I won't let you!" Eldrian chased, passing the shadow quickly. He summoned a dozen fire spears that he threw through its body. The damage was pathetic. Chipping only a hundred HP from the shadowy blob. Not even equal to the mana Eldrian's spells had cost. 

It did, however, bring the shadow to a halt. Eldrian immediately refilled the area with light, leaving no shadows for the blob of darkness to hide in. 'As I suspected, it is actually absorbing the surrounding light. Last time I couldn't quite confirm what was happening.'

This time Eldrian could. The demon was pulling all the light into itself. However, it was incapable of ridding the mana of the will Eldrian had infused into it. As such, it had to sacrifice its own mana to cancel things out. Slowing itself as it did. 

Sadly for it, Eldrian had far more mana than it.