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Marwood gave a curt nod as he cleaned the blood from his blade with a swift flick. Turning his eyes back to Viridia he smiled, giving her a thumbs up as he sheathed the blade. "Good work soldier, little more experience you'd fit in right at home with the Knights of Renais." He offered the praise as picked up his lance turning his head back towards Kara.

"Aye Lady Manakete! But she's a charger, not a nag don't insult Fiona. Dragon or not I won't have it." Marwood called setting his sights on the soldiers he angled the lance from the saddle taking aim for the fleeing soldiers back, planning on burying his lance in it. Fiona's dash a frightening sight to any he passed.

@Rune_Alchemist@Eklispe

Notably, it wasn’t that Zane had been protecting his ally, the motivation had been that said ally was in the way for Zane getting into combat. That aside.

Titania jumped up and took a ride with Isolde while Aldo jumped up and took a ride with Servus. Zane did a final attack which was aimed at Isolde, but Isolde’s swing with the halberd mitigated it enough so that she could take the rest with her defense. Then, the two wyverns swooped off, carrying them all away from that particular alley.

‘HEY! YOU CAN’T DO THAT! COME BACK!’ Zane shouted out after them in frustration. However, they were gone by then.

They then headed towards the exit and dropped off their passengers a bit later. Or they could still be on, if so desired.

@Apollosarcher@Crimson Raven

Viridia blinked just a little in surprise with Marwood praising her and potentially unintentionally suggesting another potential future for her. A Knight of Renais… She nodded to him, her mind still a bit riled up but replying the way she had been trained to.

‘Yes, sir!’

Then Viridia was commanded by Kara to go deal with the two Mercenaries with Osmund. She could do that.

‘Hoho! Leave it to me!’ Osmund declared, turning and charging at one of the Mercenaries over there. The Mercenary he faced blinked at him, but saw how unskilled his posture looked and grinned, thinking he had this. Osmund charged on, and the Mercenary easily jumped over Osmund’s lance and chopped down at Osmund’s shoulder to deal some damage! … Only to find his sword completely repelled by Osmund’s armour and then finding that Osmund did not stop to have a regular battle but charged forth and knocked his whole shoulder into the jumping Mercenary’s stomach, the Mercenary then knocked back with a serious slam to his body. The Mercenary toppled to the surprising blow.

‘Huff! That’s how you do it!’ Osmund bragged, leaning his lance on his shoulder overlooking his handiwork.

Viridia dashed in next to Osmund at the other Mercenary. That Mercenary was a bit more cautious, and able to draw his blade to counter her attack, but they were evenly matched. Sword and lance clashed a couple of times as Viridia focused on her opponent and their weapons danced in a D-rank weapon-skill clash, but to any observer it was clear that Viridia had the upper hand due to Weapons Triangle. Assuming she made no dumb mistakes, she’d have this fight, even if it’d take more than one round to secure it.

While the two of them were doing that, the Kara and Marwood had their own things to take care of.

Kara charged at the Fighter in the line, who’d been mostly focused on trying to follow his boss. However, then Kara came thundering over, and… well, there wasn’t much other than a panicked cry before he was slammed out of the way by a huge dragon.

After that, Marwood rode straight past and engaged the Soldier that was just stumbling out of the woods next to the colosseum. He gave a slight shout of panic as Marwood outpaced him and ran him through with his lance…

‘THAT… WAS A POOR DECISION!’ the commander shouted out, turning around and grinning at them. ‘WHO CARES IF IT’S A DRAGON!? ATTACK! ATTACK, ATTACK, ATTACK!’

The two suddenly found themselves attacked. Marwood was attacked by two Mercenaries, jumping and swinging their swords at him. While the lance’s weapon advantage and overall superior skill meant he could dodge one of them, the other got in a decent hit only because the two of them were teaming up on him. He didn’t take much damage, he was more experienced, but it was a bit of a warning that perhaps there were consequences of running off without backup.

Meanwhile, Zane overruled the other Knights, particularly the one who wanted back to guard the door, directing them to attack Kara. They ran forth and surrounded her, stabbing forth with their lances, but their attacks were nothing compared to their commander. Zane came running with numerous grudges burning through his system as he plunged forth his lance where Kara had settled after her attack on the eliminated Fighter. With superb experience, she wouldn’t be able to avoid Zane’s charge and find that his lance met her hide. And- it hurt! Zane’s strength proved itself a class of its own compared to his soldiers and capable of piercing her scales. Staying like this would be dangerous, even for her.

‘HAHAHA! I’VE TAKEN ON YOUR KIND BEFORE!’ Zane shouted out at her, lance ready for combat. ‘DON’T DISAPPOINT ME!’

[@-nobody]

Meanwhile, the Soldier to the east was considering his choices… when a dark spell suddenly rose from the ground and slammed him down and out.

‘There we go. This way, they’ve have cleared the path for us,’ Voss said, leading the way for Romilda.

‘Hmpf,’ Romilda simply made a noise, letting herself be rescued and following the instructions. They had just exited the house to the east, where the rest of them had also come from, and was heading south.

[@-elsewhere]

The axe-fighter and the cart leaving and the nearby Mercenaries engaged in battle, Hevel and the opposing thief found themselves by themselves. Hevel gave his opponent a little smile.

‘Heh, guess it’s just you and me and-’ Hevel started to the other thief… when this thief suddenly spun 180 degrees and fled at full speed. ‘-huh,’ Hevel finished up the noise he was making, looking over where the opponent thief was running and himself standing there sort of lost.

So, what was happening now?

_{Support
Marwood/Kara -> 1 (for cooperation hunting down the Soldier)
Osmund/Viridia -> 4}

Current Injuries: Marwood took a light blow to the side from one of the Mercenaries.
Kara has been stabbed by Zane. Zane is pretty strong, that wound might want to get looked at.

Noteworthy Movement: The Thief on the left is running north after having noticed the failing trend. He intends to inform the higher-ups.



Enemy Base Level: 2
Enemy Base Weapon Mastery: E
Enemy Equipment Quality: Iron
Notable Deviations: STORMBELLOWS! lies dropped behind Kara. _{Functionally an Iron Axe.}