As the white gas rapidly spread through the confined space of the hallway, Sherpa and his mercenaries allies in the White Hand, including Rae'liel as well, would soon break out into a violent series of coughs and tearful eyes.

On the other end of the corridor however, the Death Knight blocking the other way seemed completely unaffected by the gas.

The Death Knight came through the white mist and out towards Liaena and her group like a vengeful wraith cloaked in the gas. As Liaena fired off her rifle, the first gel round was sliced in half mid-air as it approached the Death Knight by his bloodborne Runeblade. The second round however, was caught mid air by a dark telekinetic spell from the Death Knight. Instead of heading towards the Death Knight anymore, the gel round now flew straight back at Liaena, showering her with the sticky green, gelatinous substance that quickly bonded to the lower portion of her body and the floor, leaving her stuck.

Yet as the Death Knight raised his sword as he charged for the now immobolized Liaena, he was suddenly intercepted by a truesilver crossbow bolt that traveled past Liaena and hit the Death Knight right in the exposed, necrotic flesh around his shoulder where Rae'liel's blade had carved through his armor earlier.

For Alissah, her ears were ringing to the point it was hard to hear anything that was being said, and her body was pulsating with pain from the tremendous explosion; as if she had been charged head-on by a rampaging kodo! But even so, she knew that she had to fight on lest the Death Knight would make mince-meat out of Liaena!

"The dart I gave you, now would be a good time!" Alissah called out to Liaena who was stuck in the gunk, as the woman sliced her shortsword in a low arc down at Liaena's feet, cutting up a good portion of the tenacious gunk before running off to face the Death Knight that now howled in a guttural roar through its mask. 

The truesilver bolt seemed to have done some damage to the Death Knight, but that did not prevent it from swinging its Runeblade around in a ferocious strike against the incoming Alissah.

Alissah immediately stepped to the side, her cloak and coat flowing after her as the Runeblade swished through the air where she had once stood. Grabbing a pin on her coat, she suddenly threw it off and at the Death Knight, disorienting him while revealing the auburn leather armor that she was wearing beneath it, which was strapped full of knives, bolts, bandoliers and vials.

Raising her flintlock pistol, she fired off a bullet straight through her coat that now covered the Death Knight, an audible plonk emanating from his head as the bullet buried itself in the Death Knight's mask.
But as she tilted her blade to close in, the Death Knight suddenly tore through the coat with his Runeblade, cutting it in half before the dark visors of his mask turned to face the incoming Alissah. With surprising speed, he turned his blade around to strike in a sudden upwards strike against Alissah, cutting through her leather armor with his cursed blade as if it had been nothing around her lower chest and causing the woman to fall to the ground with a shriek of pain!