Hagen and what remained of the group continued the mission despite devastating losses.
Bloodwyn had sent a few warriors back with the bodies of the fallen and the most gravely wounded. Only fifteen soldiers remained who could still advance toward the objective. They were wounded and in a pathetic state compared to the force they had begun with, but Hagen maintained his fixed determination.
They pressed forward because turning back was not allowed and doing so would also make those losses meaningless.
He still felt wounds that abyssal power somehow couldn't heal easily. The marks left by his encounter with the underground creature pulsed with constant pain, as if something in the wounds resisted corrupt regeneration.
The sensation was deeply unsettling… his enhanced healing had always been one of the primary benefits of abyssal corruption, but these injuries seemed to exist at levels beyond what his enhanced regeneration could address.
