The C-Ranks went in like black banners snapping to full wind in order to stop the Treants. If they let them close to the students, it would be a massacre.
And that left everyone else to deal with the incoming flood… the vine-whip flowers that fired barbed tendrils, the spore hounds that wreathed in fungal fuzz that shook clouds from their coats, and the beetles with glittering crystal backs that hit like battering rams.
For a moment, the students froze, terrorized.
Someone had to take charge.
"Shields front!" Mira barked, dropping into the pocket at Kairo's left.
As soon as she and Kairo moved, the others reacted.
Draven thundered up, Titan Arm swollen as he smashed a beetle clean off its legs. Alric and Barros locked their shields, baring their teeth as they dug their boots into trenches to steady their core for collision.
All hell broke loose!
A flower's maw opened and spat a thorn like a bullet, though slower but just as dangerous.
