The village instantly bursts into activity when Darius shouts. The adventurers rush up onto the wall to join Darius as do most of the Gnolls. Darius turns towards them as he says "The horde tonight looks to be much larger than you all said it would be, so we're going to be in for a large fight."

Darius then turns back to face the horde, casting a firebolt above it again, with a few of the Gnolls gulping when they see how many there are. He then turns towards the adventurers "I'll thin them, and then we should move in." To which Folred nods "That sounds like a plan." He says. Darius sighs as he looks at the horde, trying to figure out where the middle of it is.

Darius closes his eyes, holding out a hand as he starts to cast Arcane Tendrils, he then overcharges it to the max he can. Once it's charged up he opens his eyes, using his mana vision. He sees that his Arcane Tendrils look like a nearly 2-foot ball with small tendrils reaching out of it. He nods as he directs to the center of the horde and throws the spell. "Okay, that should get rid of most of them," Darius says with a nod.

Aron's eyes glow as he looks at Darius, clearly shocked, and he slowly follows the ball of Arcane energies as it lazily glides to the center of the horde. Everyone except Darius jumps at the sound of the Arcane Tendrils expanding suddenly, causing a large booming sound. They glow a bright blue as they tear through the horde, multiple tendrils ripping through zombies and skeletons as they expand out. It takes only seconds for the tendrils to cover most of the horde, fully 200 meters across, before the tendrils pull back, bringing everything that had grabbed onto with them into the center.

Darius glances around a little, seeing that just about everyone on the wall can't believe what they are seeing, and he shrugs while he says "Well, let's get down there and fight." As he looks back at what's left of the horde, seeing they are at a fraction of what they were before, closer to what Darius and the adventurers had been told they would be.

Darius walks to the edge of the wall and drops off it before he starts to run towards the horde. He hears a few thuds behind him, glancing and seeing that the other adventurers have followed him off the wall. Darius nods as he draws his sword, looking towards the zombies he is running towards, seeing they are level 15. He quickly casts a firebolt through his sword, which blasts through the heads of a couple of zombies.

It takes close to an hour for Darius and the adventurers to mop up the rest of the horde, Darius losing track of how many he killed. He looks around a little once he's killed the last zombie close to him, seeing there are no more he nods with relief before he walks towards the other adventurers "Looks like that's all of them here." He says once he gets close to them. Darius stops when a screen appears in front of him.

Level up

From level 17 to level 25

You have gained 80 HP, SP, and MP

You have gained 16 to all attributes, 96 to all regen, and 120 unassigned attribute points.

Spell level up

[Arcane Tendrils] levels up from level 33 to level 71

Damage done increased by 355%

Radius increased to 38.5

Mana cost reduced by 213%

Skill level up

[Mana Overcharge] levels up from level 35 to level 68

Charge amount increased to 912%

Mana cost reduced by 68%

Darius' eyes widen when he sees the screen, before he starts to laugh, doubling over as he laughs harder and harder. The Adventurers looks at him worriedly as he starts to laugh before they see his level. Their jaws drop as they see how big of an increase he got from this battle.

Darius soon stops laughing, smiling as he straightens, he dismisses the screen before he walks over to the adventurers. "Well, as you can clearly see I just got a lot stronger, so let's go deal with whatever it is that is making these undead. I'll apply what I got to my attributes as we go." He then starts to walk towards the east, following the trail the undead had made as they walked across the land.