The tentacle that had lashed out smashed into the ground where William had been standing a second earlier, leaving a crater and splattering poison across the stone floor. The liquid hissed where it landed, eating into the rock like acid.
"Don't let that stuff touch you!" Astrid warned while dodging her own tentacle strike.
William circled right, trying to get an angle on the guardian's main body while avoiding the writhing mass of appendages. Fire enhancement coated his blade as he struck at the nearest tentacle, his sword biting deep into the plant flesh. The guardian shuddered and the wounded tentacle retreated, dark sap oozing from the cut.
But even as he watched, the wound began closing. The plant matter knitted itself back together in seconds, leaving barely a scar.
"It's healing!" William called out.
"Told you!" Astrid was already engaging the main body, her blade striking at the thick stem below the bulb. "We need sustained damage, not quick hits!"
