Ian's icy tone startled the other three.
Saqi's pupils constricted slightly, and then he sneered, "A dead man walking, and you still dare to talk tough?"
Before the words had even faded, the three of them attacked at once!
Saqi fiercely swung his Short Staff. The crystal on its tip erupted with a bloody light, and three viscous, blood-like, dark red beams shot out in a triangular pattern.
The beams tore through the air with a strange HISS, and a putrid stench instantly filled the forest!
Barton let out a low roar and slammed his fists together. The light of his Runes flared, and his skin completely transformed into a bluish-gray, rock-like substance.
He stomped his foot, blasting a shallow crater in the ground, and shot forward like a cannonball. His right fist, wreathed in murky gray Earth Energy, flew straight at Ian's face!
Serra's figure vanished like a ghost, reappearing to Ian's left rear.
