| Viktor saw that his newfound comrades were faring well, but the bandits were simply too numerous. Grudgingly, he joined the fray. Even more grudgingly, he released val'Kishtar to aid him in battle.
Gleeful to be in a situation to cause bloodshed, the demon arm gave itself over to Viktor, allowing him full control in the infliction of mayhem.
Viktor decided that the archers would present the greatest problem for his allies, so he would attack them first. He shot out his phantom arm to its full length, a distance of roughly twelve feet, and grabbed at the ground as far away as he could reach. Once his grip was secured, he retracted the arm, pulling himself across the spanned distance with lightning speed. Upon reaching his destination, he hit the ground rolling and his arm already extending again to carry him another 4 yards. In such a manner he covered the distance to the treeline in a matter of seconds, moving far too quickly to be targeted by the arrows of his prey.
Upon reaching the treeline, Viktor sent the arm of val'Kishtar up into the foliage, drawing himself up and vanishing into the trees. In the dark of the wood, his spectral arm was almost invisible, and the first archer never saw it coming as the horned fist dropped out of the trees above him and sunk its claws into the soft flesh under his jaw, carrying him back up into the trees, from which an explosion of blood spattered down on the forest floor.
One by one, the archers in the woods were yanked up into the trees and their blood and innards covered the trees and grass where they were last seen.
The remaining archers tried to draw a bead on where Viktor was, but his dark cloak was a mere blur as the arm of val'Kishtar carried him quickly through the forest. All of the trees around gave the arm a free choice of anchors to which to pull Viktor, and he was simply too fast for the archers to target. |