Heart pounding in her throat, Jennet targeted the closest spider and released a single bolt of magic. The spider stumbled, then flipped over dead—but she didn’t have time to take them out one by one.
HCoranne sprinted toward the creatures, a vial in her hand. She flung it to the ground, and noxious green smoke rose up. The first couple spiders to encounter it halted, and then started to spin around in circles, but the rest kept coming. Jennet managed another bolt, but that still left four of the spiders, advancing to where she and Zeg stood their ground on the cracked cobblestones.
Zeg lifted his hand and conjured one of the priest’s rare damage spells. A flare of purple light sped toward the spiders, and two of them keeled over. Jennet used the end of her mage staff to knock one of the
