The soldiers kept marching forward.
They found the presence of logs weird at first but after observing and finding nothing amiss, they thought it was simply kept by enemies before to use later but they might have forgotten about it and one of the logs might have rolled over due to the terrain.
"Nothing is wrong. So advance." The man ordered and turned his back while the darkness swallowed another of his men.
Death lingered on their backs and started to take them one by one.
One..two..five..ten.
The numbers started to rise rapidly.
It didn't feel odd at first but as he along with others noticed that the light was dimming slowly and the number of burning torches had decreased, the man realised that something was wrong.
He gasped in shock as he found only dozens of men behind him which initially consisted of a group of hundred men.
