The next wave of monsters came in the afternoon. A handful of soldiers were guarding the portal, and Talon was with them.
Talon turned the first several monsters into hamsters, as he had done before with the previous ones. But then came monsters who were resistant to his magic. “Ah, you humans have not changed at all in hundreds of years,” chuckled one monster. “Still attempting to use your silly magic spells on us.”
“Don’t you know magic doesn’t work on our kind,” said another monster. “We are those monsters who are protected from any magic charm. Fool of a mage!”
Talon didn’t say anything. He had known that these monsters existed, and that they would come through the portal sooner or later. He didn’t allow them to fluster him or anger him. He just changed his spell. While it was true that these particular monsters couldn’t be affected by magic, that did not mean that magic was no longer an option. It just meant that he couldn’t cast transformation spells on the monsters directly. But he could cause the ground to open up beneath them, and attempt to bury them in the dirt. He concentrated his brow as he worked the magic spell. The monsters’ laughter was cut short as the dirt opened up beneath them, and they fell into a deep pit, only for the dirt to pile back on top of them.
The spell was evidently a complicated one. Talon was chanting a lot, and moving his arms a lot, and seemed to be exerting a fair amount of mental force. He fell back in exhaustion once the spell had been completed.
“Wow!” said one of the soldiers. “You did it!”
“Run, quickly,” said Talon. “You cannot do anything to stop the monsters. Better just leave them to me.”
“But you got them,” said another soldier. “You buried them.”
“They cannot be killed so easily,” said Talon.
Sure enough, shortly after Talon said that, the ground once again exploded. Dirt flew up into the air as if it had been blasted out from below, and the monsters stormed out of the hole. Talon was expecting them, and he started chanting again. He lifted large boulders into the air, and threw the boulders at the monsters. He lifted dirt into the air, and sent the dirt hurtling into their eyes. He started throwing everything he could at the monsters.
In return, the monsters charged at him. Talon had very little time to protect himself (the monsters ran so fast and so suddenly), but he tried to make a spell to cover himself quickly, and he shielded himself with the magical energy just in time. Talon erected a shield around himself, and the monsters were not able to bite or scratch him. They were, however, able to hit him with sheer force, and send him flying through the air. His magical energy force cushioned his fall, but the monsters were still rushing to attack him as he landed. Talon had just enough time to chant another spell, and he opened up a tunnel in the ground. Instead of sending the monsters through the tunnel, however, Talon disappeared through it himself.
The monsters all rushed to stare down the hole Talon had just disappeared down. Or, at least 4 of the 5 monsters were staring down the hole. The fifth one shouted, “You fools! Don’t stand around looking down the hole. Get ready! He’s coming back!”
But while he was still speaking, Talon shot out of the ground at a spot several meters away from where the monsters were standing. He had used magic to tunnel under the ground and now he burst out through the ground once he was safely away from the monsters. He then immediately shot up into the air. He was chanting the whole time in his deep voice--chanting rapidly, as he was weaving many intricate spells. While he levitated himself in the air, he also threw everything he could at the monsters--stones, dirt, rocks, boulders, dead branches. Because it was only possible to weave so many spells into the same chant at once, Talon was not able to keep up the magical shield of energy around him. Instead, Talon put all his focus onto bombarding the monsters with every object he could while he stayed out of their reach by continuing to interweave his levitation chant with his other spells.
Talon threw everything he could at the monsters, but they treated all of it like a minor annoyance. While all these objects were flying through the air, one monster picked up a big rock (about the size of a melon) and threw it back at Talon. The monster had a powerful arm, and the rock flew through the air at a high speed. It struck Talon in the head, and killed him instantly. Suddenly, the chanting stopped, and Talon’s arms (which had been moving to create the spell) fell limply by his sides, and his limp and lifeless body fell to the ground with a crash.
The soldiers (who were still standing around, and had not taken Talon’s advice to flee when they had had the chance) now panicked and ran every which way they could. And the monsters chased them into the forest.
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