The night hunters didn't waste any time once they realized an intruder was in their lair. The closest ones lunged out of the mounds. Some that were more deeply stacked inside the mounds clawed their brethren on top of them, trying to claw their way out.
They hissed and shrieked, making a cacophony of voices that eerily sounded very much like humans but also not.
Jack had known that these night hunters had a rather fast crawling speed from the last time he fought them. But it turned out they were faster. When he fought them inside the house with Grace and Spring Crown, the hunters didn't have much space to develop their speed. Different from then, this hall was large. Once the night hunters separated themselves from the mounds they were in, they crawled toward Jack and developed faster speed the longer they crawled.
