Chapter One-Hundred-and-Sixty-Nine

The last humans working for the Matriarch didn’t even get to put up a fight as Adam and Kat hunted them down in the night, harvesting them for all they were worth.

Using his new magic, Adam turned their bones into a sled to carry the flesh and blood, and then they went through the island, trapping the houses and thoroughfares, focusing on places that appeared to be lived in.

Adam had come up with a mix of Snare and Push patterns that would activate sequentially, causing the target to first be locked in place, and then get pelted with hardened blood, flesh, and bone shrapnel from the Push explosion. It was possible that the design wouldn’t outright kill most of the bloodfiends, but it would disable them for long enough that Adam and Kat could run them down and eliminate them without much of a fight. And given how outnumbered they were about to be, it was the safest bet to turn the tide in their favour.

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