The three thugs got closer their blade-arms lifting when Dreschen's prepared surprise landed at the feet of the middle one of them, a blast kicking up ash and scaring the horse before the wagons slightly, the ox seeming still bored by the looks of the old beast, but where the bomb landed it tore flesh from the bones of the twisted thug howling in pain, the blast seeming to tear at the feet of its companions as well. The wounds seemed nasty but not enough to fell these creatures, but the one leading the charge took a nasty bit of damage.<br/><br/>Drescher's attack seemed to have infuriated the leader thug though, who gestured up at Drescher with a blade-arm, and ignoring the ox and the horse it tried to push up closer at him, shoving its way between the horse and the ox scraping both without doing real harm, trying to get close enough to hurt<em>Drescher</em>but pausing 10 feet short before the beasts.<br/><br/>The one on the left side of the charge came right in front of Almir, blade arms rising and slashing across the ox's side. Blood flowed, the ox shuddering on its hooves barely able to stand anymore, the metal cleaving through the dark hide viciously, a reminder of what they could do to softer flesh as well. These things were definitely not the sort a person would want to wrestle either, the numerous little thorns and sharp metal bits showing from their twisted forms gave the thought of rolling around in a pile of glass shards would have been safer.<br/><br/>On the other side the right-most thug put all its effort into one fast slash across the horse's throat, but managing to miss as the horse panickedly kicked its chest in the air thrusting its hooves in the air before the thug. This slowed down the thug's own attack enough.<br/><br/>Now with the thug in striking distance, Cidan stood aside the wagons, having gotten the longspear ready and set against the charge. Thrusting it ahead, he pushed the tip through the right-most thug, spearing meat, but without any obvious harm done other than a metal-tipped shaft of wood pushed through the flesh, there was no blood flowing even, piece of the side of the thug pierced without obvious harm done.<br/><br/>