"Alright," he said, a confident smile crossing his face. "Let's get down there and finish the rest the old-fashioned way. Ishtar, with me. Eddie, Charlotte, support from the pillars until we've cleared enough space, then follow us down. Let's wrap this up."
He leapt down from the pillar, Cryothunder blazing along his blade, and waded into the halved swarm, his team following his lead, ready to clear out what remained of the horde.
After twenty minutes of fighting, Moon and his team finally eliminated the entire swarm.
Across a radius of nearly five hundred meters, the corpses of Rhododendrons blanketed the ground, hundreds upon hundreds of the carnivorous plants reduced to ruin. Some burnt to blackened husks, some sliced cleanly apart, others crushed beneath earth magic or frozen. The once-peaceful meadow had become a field of carnage.
