...is Epic.

If a little one-sided. You peer through the trees, keeping your distance from the light show unfolding before you. The witch stands alone in a clearing, wand stabbing in brutally efficient gestures as she blasts spiders out of the trees. You flinch as a magenta bolt arcs through a cluster of spiders to your left, dropping a cluster of manny-legged bodies from the canopy. Good lord...the woman is a **** of nature! You watch in horror as the Witch screams out an incantation and an entire half of the clearing is suddenly consumed in an inferno. It only lasts a second but when it clears you see that it overlapped some of the trees across from your hiding spot, leaving only blackened trunks behind. Her voice booms, magically amplified beyond all reasoning, "I AM MIERA THE GOD TOUCHED! BE GONE INFERIOR CREATURES!" Spiders fall writhing from the canopy like an unholy hail storm. You think back to when you were seriously considering attacking her outright...an unpleasant shiver runs through you.

Despite the overwhelming display of power you can see that the witch is tiring. Her robe is torn where a lucky spider got through to her and you can see a wild look in her eyes as she spins to face every flicker of movement in the shadows. She was running out of mana. Ironically, it was her own power that would be her undoing: Her spells were deadly but they were overkill for these enemies. They weren't worth the mana she was using to destroy them. She must have realized they would just keep coming because she was using ridiculously flashy spells, trying to awe the horde into submission. The spiders weren't fooled. They continued to throw themselves at her, one by one, in little kamikaze leaps. Eventually, she'd run out of ammo. Based on the **** look in her eye, probably sooner rather than later.

You really have to marvel at her arrogance and greed: you'd explicitly told her there would be a huge nest of spiders guarding her non-existent shard, the least she could have done was bring some support. Guess it would have been too much for her to share the spoils. The witch stumbles and an intrepid spider leaps at her from the darkness....it's sent flying back into the trees by an orange spell where it detonates with the **** of a small bomb, the shockwave tearing a good portion of the leaves from your body. You flatten yourself to the ground, slipping closer at the risk of personal harm. You aren't going to let the spiders win this one...

Eye's wild, the witch draws a circle with her wand, casting a green veil in a large radius on the ground around her. She drops into a crouch, hastily drawing symbols in the soft mossy earth: She's going to teleport out! You almost jump forward...but you catch yourself before you touch the green circle. The spiders are not so lucky: a first responder leaps for the witch...and promptly disintegrates into the equivalent of spider-bones as he passes over the sickly green glow. Ward. Clever girl...

The spiders hiss in frustration, some throwing themselves at the ward in an effort to wear it down prematurely. But it's not designed to stop enemies...It's designed to kill them. None make it through to the muttering witch as the teleport spell powers up, little purple sparks arcing over the sigils she's drawn in the dirt. You simmer in frustration before you realize: you have a ranged attack.

PTEW, PTEW, PTEW-You fire bolt after bolt at the witch, not pausing to see if they connected. You know they did-you'd had plenty of practice. "Argh!" The witch screams as you interrupt her casting, the bolts sail right through her ward unaffected and do quite a bit more damage than a lone spider ever could. Her teleport spell backfires and the magic blasts back into her, briefly lifting her off the ground in a crackling field of purple static. She is alive when she falls back to the earth but only just. Weakly she lifts a hand, calling up one last spe-THUNK. Your attack hits home and she crumples to the ground, her body slowly brightening till she flashes out in a blinding burst of light.

....

Something's wrong. Where's the XP?! All that planning...wasted?! Then you feel it: a terrible roar of power filling you up till you feel you might explode. You actually levitate off the ground as your body starts to glow with an inner light, pulsing green through your skin. You see the spiders gathering around you, hissing hatefully as they recognize you but unwilling to get any closer as the light intensifies. The Level Up! screen blasts into existence before you, raining a shower of sparks over you in its brilliance...