The attacking groups spread out into a semicircle around the Forest Grove defenders as they prepared their siege weapons, forming the two attacking groups into one larger one, but widely spaced, so they wouldn't be as brutally victimized by the Cluster Grenades spell again.
Not far enough that the spell wouldn't lead to multiple casualties with every shot, but far enough that the number shouldn't be in the dozens.
The attitudes of the humans in the attacking group changed as one of their weapons was set up, and Wolfe took that as his cue to begin their retaliation.
"Now." He instructed, and a hail of gunfire slammed into the shields around the attacking force, causing them to flicker, and dropping a number of the human mages to their knees in exhaustion as they forced themselves past their limits to keep the barrier active.
