Bless the bow Lazheros did with divine radiant energy made it glow in the ranger's hand. "Knock an arrow and it gains the special power of holy fire but the time is limited. Use it wisely."

The wights advanced as the Wall of Fire went out with two coming straight up the center towards everyone and two came in from the left and the right to flank them.

Serna extended the protection radius of her shield to cover her center, left and right flanks.

"I will!" Without a moment's hesitation, Willow fell back a few feet behind Serna's shield wall, nocked and arrow and let loose a shaft directly at the necromancer.

The necromancer saw in incoming arrow too late when he tried to dodge out of the way as the blessed arrow struck him in the shoulder. "ARRGHH! CURSE YOU!"

"The first of more to come, fiend!" The Prince challenged the Necromancer.

The wights charged the ranger in response to their master being hit with the arrow with swords swinging across, up and down in both directions with intent to kill Willow.

Alyson placed a Stoneskin spell on Willow just in time as the wights on his side slashed him only to hit the stoneskin instead. At the same time the ones to her left came in swinging their swords slashing downwards when the gauntlets activated out of sheer instinct deflecting one of the wights attacks. The remaining wight swung its sword down at her feet tripping her up. She lost her footing and fell backwards prone on the ground.

As their swords shattered against Willow's stoneskin, The Prince reared back and backhanded the wight that attacked him knocking it to the ground.

Caliaphy saw it happen and reacted by shooting a beam of light at the gauntlet on Alyson's left arm which was reflected right into the face of the wight. "Take that, you..you creepy blue-eyed freak!"

Serna continued to do her part to keep the majority of the wights from flanking them and completely encircling her friends.

The Prince turned, quickly nocked an arrow and drilled it into the skull of the wight attacking Alyson. Returning his attention to the Necromancer, Willow took a deep breath then snapshotted three arrows at the fiend--two of them were flew straight towards the Necromancer's heart while the third one flew directly towards the fiend's head.

The necromancer screamed and jerked violently as the blessed arrow burned him from the inside out. The holy fire coursed through his body as he fell to the ground not screaming this time but letting out one last laugh, "MWHAAAAAA....!!"

Alyson and Lazheros watched as the necromancer exploded in a flash of fire. The wights he summoned screeched in vain as the ground pulled them back down into the depths and were no more.

"UGH! PU! That stench is horrible!" The elementalist plugged her nose.

Willow took a deep breath before he turned to the others, "Is everyone alright?"

"That was close," Serna deactivated her shield and exclaimed in relief, "They almost had us."

*******

Danvald shouted, "The giant is staying out of melee range! We need to close the gap another twenty feet!"

Thinbar pulled both handaxes back over his shoulders and flung them end over end towards the giant through the lower canopy of the trees. The weapons cut off some of the limbs that came down in a domino affect to the ground. The giant went down in a thunderous crash only to come up with rage towards the group.

"That did it!" Gimim gave Thinbar the thumbs up and opened up with his repeating crossbow into the lower torso of the giant.

Dragolem had rolled out of the way after he tossed Irzen and slipped into the shadows again.

While Irzen could not see Dragolem, the Drow knew the Draconic Elemental was up to one of his dirty tricks and readied himself for what might next happen.

The giant had come within striking distance of Danvald and Thinbar slamming its ten foot club against the loose ground caused both dwarves to be knocked prone. Gimim had reloaded his repeating crossbow and unloaded six arrows again into the lower abdomen of the giant opening the wound more.

***TWMPPH!! TWMMPH!! TWMPPH!!***

The giant roared in pain trying dislodge the bolts which only made it worse by pushing them further into its gut. "Stupid dwarves! I will enjoy crushing you to death a limb at a time! Capture them!"

Dragolem popped out of a nearby tree snapping the neck of one orc and disemboweling another. "The giant's got friends, Irzen!"

"Good!" The Swordsman waited for an Orc to try and come at him, "I was getting lonely."

Just then the horns that Irzen and Dragolem had heard just moments before sounded in the valley once more. The horns were followed by the sounds of hooves coming through the thick brush and braying of mules and goats stampeding from both sides the party.

"And cue the cavalry!" Irzen quipped as he heard the sounds of the impending charge.

Sounds of weapons clashing, cheers of victory, and screams of agony echoed out the valley floor below the group. At some point everyone could see an armored goat ramming the giant from both sides with riders impaling it through the torso. In one last attempt to throw off its attackers, the giant threw the tree directly at Lord Irzen.

"Not another tree!" The Swordsman hit the deck as the tree flew past him and crashed to the ground behind him, "What is it with this giant and trees? It's not like he's going to win a Gold Medal at the Olympics for tree throwing or anything."