The elemental barrage hammered the Twin Boulderback Behemoths. Water cannons blasted craters into their stone hides. Wind blades carved deep grooves across their crystalline spines. Yet the giants weathered the assault, their regenerative abilities already knitting the superficial damage back together.
The larger behemoth bent its massive legs and roared at the sky, challenging the raid to come down and face it in person, rather than at a safe distance. But it wasn't going to be safe for long.
The monster ripped a thirty-foot pine from the earth, roots and soil clinging to its base. It launched the tree like a javelin toward the circling crows.
"Scatter!" Reidar shouted.
The raid broke formation, but a crow swerved too late. The tree struck its wing, snapping bone and sending rider and mount spiraling toward the ground.
