"You will need try harder than that, demon."

"The Red" returned an arcane and mystic gesture with his hands as he spoke - a set of fluid supernatural motions that invoked [i]something[/i] in their obscure movement. Moving as he was, the primal warrior allowed the demon the presence of mind to consider his actions carefully, which it did following its crouch. It, for one reason or another, opted for one of the least reasonable approaches against a zealot - attacking the mind. A hardened hunter of these evil foes and possessed of untamed fanaticism to kill them, the savage bellowed with laughter in spite of the chaos of battle and the attack on his conscious; only mildly dazzled, no more than really amused, he replied as a distraction once more to buy the other adventurers time enough.

"Really? You seek to toy with [i]my[/i] mind?"

At best it bought Zargon the brief it took the wildman to reply before the next attack was already upon him, this time "The Red" accompanied - the sound of a horn of alarm filling the air.

Without apparent warning, the same gesture made earlier proved to indeed have some actual result as more combatants were added to the fray; a ghostly figure stirred from a faint mist beside Zargon's left. It, what soon became an immense lioness made physical from magical ether combined with pure [i]essentia[/i], unleashed herself upon the crouched demon who had mistakenly made himself more vulnerable in doing so. Her vicious claws glinting bright with rending intent, she unleashed a flurry of enchanted attacks upon him - seeking to grasp and tear.

Leaving Tirraian behind now, lunging to the side and taking once more to feline form, "The Red" delayed for less than a moment as he brought in his angle of attack across from the frenzied lioness and pitting the demon against three foes at once. While unaware of the gnome's poisoned blade, this would perhaps be the time to strike for the small woman - her far larger foe besieged by two seemingly greater threats...

When in reality her weapon's deadly bite was far, far worse.

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