“I might not even need my shield for this one… If I do, well, it will be a painful lesson…” he thought, rolling a tooth around between his fingers. He was counting on the spell stopping the treant in its tracks again.

Jay stared down the treant, looking into its hollow eyes with a sly smile as if he was a hungry wolf, taunting it, challenging it.

Both sabre girl and dagger girl took a few steps back as the large creature rushed into the midst of their V-shaped formation – and just before the antlers impaled Jay, another explosion rang out across the battlefield.