A sweep of my tail sent thousands of ice shards into the horde of guards swarming me.
The shards pounding at the horde stopped the flood from nearing but it did not stop their ranged attacks. Just looking up I could see the thousands of arrows and daggers being thrown and shot at us.
the wall of ice fragments was doing a good job of keeping them from hitting me but it didn't keep everything.
There were still tens of daggers and arrows that pierced through my defenses and into the surrounding area.
Luckily out of the ones that passed my defenses only a couple had actually hit my back.
"Nn" the pain of just a couple of daggers and arrows pounding upon my back was unbearable but still I did not move, despite the pain I had something I needed to protect.