While the orcs under Kallen's influence were gaining even more and more advantage, they were far from pleased , due to the kill stealing.
These kobolds carried Essence far more potent than that of ordinary Second Ascension ascendants, killing them promised superior stat boosts.
But the archer, who they still assumed to be the female fatale, kept snatching the finishing blow at the last moment.
By the fourth stolen kill, their fury was plain. Those who had lost their prey glared toward the trees, shouting and warning "her" to stop.
The numbers were beginning to even out, with five kobolds already dead. From being outnumbered twenty to ten without the archer, it had now come to fifteen to eleven under the archer's influence.
But the orcs' surge of adrenaline and morale deflated in an instant when disaster struck.
