“Zach, what the hell are you doing there?!” Zorian yelled. “I’ve been running for ages here! Did you figure out the dagger or not!?”
Zach, who was trailing behind both of them while occasionally making funny poses and waving the dagger in his hand at the hydra, seemed to pause at the question.
“It’s hard, okay!” he yelled back.
“I’m running low on mana here!” Zorian said. “If you don’t figure it out soon, I’m calling this off.”
In truth, the hydra posed very little threat to Zorian. If the situation ever got too dangerous, he could have always teleported away or simply flown too high for the hydra to reach. However, that would leave it free to turn around and shift its attention to Zach, which would defeat the whole purpose of this setup. The point of him leading the hydra on the m
