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Sixty was a number I had estimated quickly when I first arrived behind the tables that I crouched against, and sixty was wrong. Sixty was the count if I limited myself to the bodies I could see clearly.
The actual count, when I let my Observation work properly across the space, was closer to a hundred, perhaps more, the corpses overlapping in places, piled against each other in low heaps where the kills had concentrated, the iron-dark hides of the smaller demons lying broken across each other in patterns that suggested the two Adepts had been fighting in this position for far longer than the eruption should have allowed.
Hundreds of dead demons, and the wave still coming was larger than the pile. It was then that the realization hit me, what I had experienced was just the small offshoots of demons reaching my position; this place was the real fight, and I could not see it until I came closer.
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