They killed the last two ordinary Maulers between them over the following six minutes and neither of them was pretty.
`[MAULERS SLAIN ×5]`
`[CALL OF SOULS ACTIVATED — MANA RESTORED: +60]`
`[MANA: 1,160 / 3,100]`
`[SUMMON UNDEAD SKELETON — 80 MANA] ×2`
`[MANA: 1,000 / 3,100]`
Then it was the Great Mauler, on its own, in the middle of a hall full of bodies, with thirty-four thousand hit points and about eleven thousand of them gone.
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James did not send the last two skeletons at it.
That was the decision he had been making all day and by now he made it without having to think.
He put them where it would have to walk, one on either side, eight metres apart — not in front of it, beside its routes — so that whichever way it went, one of them was on that side and it had to decide whether to deal with the thing on its flank before it did anything else.
Finn went wide left. Ronan went straight at it, slowly, because that was all he had.
