Sebastian planted his heavy combat boot on the man's knee and pulled violently backward.
*SNAP! SQUELCH!*
The scavenger's leg bent completely the wrong way, the femur tearing through the skin and chainmail in a geyser of bright red blood. The man shrieked, collapsing into the mud.
Sebastian didn't stop. He ripped the spear out of the screaming man's hands and hurled it like a javelin at the third scavenger. The wooden shaft pierced straight through the center of the man's rusted breastplate, pinning him violently to the trunk of a massive oak tree.
"They're too fast!" Valerie shouted over the din of combat.
She was engaged with two scavengers near the ruins of the toll booth. She wasn't trying to match their hacked strength. She was fighting smart. As a scavenger swung a heavy axe at her head, Valerie dropped to her knees, sliding through the mud. She swung her heavy iron pipe, smashing it directly into the side of the man's unarmored ankle.
*CRACK.*
