Each creature was no larer than a human head with malformed and insectoid bodies. They also had eight spiky like limbs and glowing red pinprick eyes.
They flew...
Crawled...
Skittered across the air itself as though gravity meant nothing.
Eirene's expression hardened.
"…So many."
She shifted Victor's body securely to one arm and raised the other.
Darkness exploded outward.
A wave of black energy tore through the swarm, erasing hundreds instantly and causing their bodies to collapse into ash mid-air.
But the swarm didn't slow.
They replaced the dead without pause with numbers so vast they seemed endless.
Eirene lashed out again and again.
Dark lances.
Shadow blades.
Compressed void spheres.
Each attack annihilated dozens, sometimes hundreds.
Still, they came.
The wind howled as gravity dragged them closer to the yawning abyss below. The massive crack was only a couple hundred feet beneath them and its depths swallowed light itself.
Closer...
Closer...
