As the system announced the death of the corrupted tree a moment of stillness enveloped the clearing. The various Bark Horrors frozen in place, the party too paused upon seeing this strange behaviour.
Yet that brief reprieve was not fated to last.
A cacophony of otherworldly screeches rang out from all around them. The sound burst forth with such intensity that the party was momentarily disoriented from the shear pressure the cry contained.
Then with a maddened ferocity the Horrors redoubled their maddened attacks, no longer caring to avoid retaliation, purely focused on destroying the being that dared to harm the tree.
The sounds of movement echoed through the nearby forest, more and more of the horrors emerging from the forest all around the group.
