As Miara fought 3 of these monsters and their swords slashed at her shield, 5 others had cornered Ykril and me. I threw several lightning bolts with a full charge at them, whereupon one collapsed completely, but the others only started to smell like bad fried bacon and came at us even more furiously. As I flipped my staff and prepared for close combat, the Orcs stopped abruptly after a hiss behind us. But before I could take the risk to check what it was, a huge black and purple colored watchspider jumped over Ykril and me and took all the Orcs in front of us with her. With ease, it tore one apart with its claws and impaled two more with its legs.
She faced the last one, hissed loudly, rushed towards him and tore him apart with her fangs. As the spider feasted on the Orcs guts, one of the three who had attacked Miara flew into the tree next to the spider, who pinned him to the tree trunk without any hesitation with a leg.
We looked at Miara and Sanise and saw the last Orcs fleeing in panic while Sanise stared open-mouthed at the spider.
»What – What the heck is that?« she managed to say shakily.
»A starving watchspider« I replied calmly as I tried to approach it, but Ykril held me back […]
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