Dwargon

[Apollymi]

A quick glance in Kou's direction let Miki know that he was descending into the ravine. She wasn't worried about him, but she also didn't want to abandon him to his fate for too long either. With this in mind she kept moving about her current battlefield. She used her spear with great efficiency, slaying Lizardmen as they were distracted by the newly freed Dwarves. Of course, even as she did this her eyes kept shifting about the battlefield, her keen eye looking for openings to exploit. Lizardmen currently invested in battle, ones who charged headlong towards the Dwarves, those who aimed to free themselves from the rubble of the fallen outer wall of Dwargon. All would meet quick jabs of her spear and their lives would end rather quickly. Her kill count increased rather quickly adding to the pool of shared experience she and Kou gained.

Strangely, she began to meet a bit more variety in her Lizardmen one she aimed to attack pulled up a shield in one hand and carried a blunt club in the other. It blocked the jabbing motion of her weapon making Miki's eyes widen slightly. She scanned it quickly, finding that it was currently level 10 and armored as such. "Sou ka, I'd hoped to have a bit more time before one like you appeared," she muttered, seeing it called Lizardman Shielder. Of course, she didn't rightly stop moving, her body disappeared from sight as she aimed to move past this creature only to have it turn to face her as she reappeared, using its shield once more to block another attack. But once more it was pushed back, a roar escaped the creature and it swung the large club down to have it collide with Miki's head. Miki's eyes widened, but she didn't back down from this, instead she pushed forward, stepping into its space while shifting the grip on her weapon. With a firmer grip and within the creatures' personal space and used her unstoppable spear skill, to push into the Lizardman's chest. It seemed surprised by the suddenness of her movements and her ability to react in the moment of his attack, but it was done, and a gush of blood escaped its chest as it was felled, gaining the girl enough experience to push her into the next level. 'Woooooh, that was a bit risky. Way more risky than anything I'd normally do, but...' she looked around. Apparently the death of the Lizardman Shielder, was enough to scatter quite a few of the other lesser ones. Beyond this, the dwarves were also taking advantage of this situation slaying a few themselves. At the very least, the ones immediately surrounding the walls would no longer be a problem. 'I wonder how he's doing?'

[Bloodedge]

In the midst of the slaughterfest, Kou reached level 9 by the collective efforts of Miki and himself. 'One more. I think we shold be able to get there,' thought the lad while continuing the slaying of Lizardmen. The Lizardman Shielder was not the only special enemy in this group; there were a couple of others scattered about. Kou eventually stumbled upon one of these as well, titled 'Lizardman Saver' when viewed. This reptilian demi-human was en route to the fallen Shielder near Miki, but Kou was close behind. "Oi! Eyes front, soldier!" Kou called out, grabbing the attention of this Lizardman wielding a strange, curved staff. He fully intended to strike down this enemy with a single slash, but a quick use of the odd staff swept Kou off his feet. He hit the ground, saving himself from an overhead swing by rolling away from the Lizardman.

Before he could rise properly, Kou was forced to raise his sword in a defense effort against another overhead staff strike. "Whoops! Gotcha!" he said with a grin. A slight turn of his blade showed its flat side to the Lizardman, and from it came a blinding flash of light magic. A successful blinding of his opponent allowed Kou enough freedom to step back and rise in a single movement, before ultimately driving the tip of his sword into the Lizardman's head. Just like that, two of three leader figures in this group of Lizardmen were down. All that remained was a certain enemy titled Lizardman Avenger.

[Apollymi]

Both of the adventurers had successfully taken down a leader from the group which was attacking the eastern wall of Dwargon. Having done this though, a strange reaction was to take place on the battlefield. A large armored Lizardman towered over several smaller ones. The deaths of its comrades encouraged it to finally move of its own accord, and when it did it was a sight to behold. It had a spiky mohawk of spines down its head, dark green and blue scales dotting its face, and piercing yellow eyes with slits for pupils. Its cry scattered several of the small creatures on the battlefield and drew Miki's attention in its direction. 'Lizardman Avenger, huh? That doesn't sound good at all...' she thought as she scanned the creature. Obviously, it was the last of the boss creatures of this area. Even so, it was clearly the most daunting. Miki didn't think she could take it alone, but she figured it was likely she wouldn't have to. Instead of focusing on the potential negatives, she moved forward, making sure to take out any stragglers she found along the way to the champion.

[Bloodedge]

Though there were still other Lizardmen of the normal variety in the area, it seemed both Adventurers were focused on the final boss-type monster. This one boasted an intimidating presence first and foremost, but it also seemed to be growing more powerful whilst towering over the corpses of its fallen comrades. Such was the power of the Avenger Special Class, even going so far as to rile up the remaining troops around it. Kou figured it would be best to regroup with Miki before addressing this problem directly, so he raised his sword overhead and produced another flash of light magic to blind the remaining Lizardmen before he hopped to the female Lancer's side. "That guy's gonna be a problem. He's the second Special Class I've seen so far. I don't even know what you have to do to unlock Avenger."

[Apollymi]

Soon enough, Kou would be back by Miki's side, but not before blinding another set of enemies. She nodded her agreement to his assertion that the creature before them was quite the challenge. "If I had to guess, I'd say he got such a class by killing people who kill his comrades..." she said firmly. Beyond this the point about this being the second special class he'd seen this day made her brow raise slightly. "Oh? He's your second too? That means three for this area..." she concluded. Still it was growing larger by the second further confirming the idea that its power was made greater by the deaths of those around it. "Still I am not sure of the best way to approach it..." she said watching restlessly as it raised above its head two axes which it apparently used as weapons. "I wasn't able to sneak up on the titled one I killed earlier, had to do something kinda risky to strike it," she explained, because when taking on their next opponent she thought it best to be honest about her capabilities.

[Bloodedge]

"Three, huh... At least it's just the one Avenger. Those things would suck in groups," Kou asserted. During the time they had remaining for the Lizardmen to recover from blindness, he began side-stepping slowly while facing the Avenger, keeping near Miki as he did so. With the girl admitting her inability to assassinate the previous special Lizardman, Kou thought it worthwhile to bring up his own shortcoming against his former opponent. "One of them got over on me for a second, too. They're not Unique though, so they shouldn't have more than their Class Abilities. If we rush it together, there's probably not much it can do against two Knights."

[Apollymi]

Miki had to agree that fighting the Avenger type of enemy would have been a pain if there had been multiples. Beyond this point as Kou moved closer placing space between himself and the recovering Lizardmen, he gave away a bit of information about his own solo slaying of a special variant. His speech let her know, that she'd not been the only one to struggle against the variety presented by these Lizardmen. Even so, he made the assertion that the pair of them should be able to take on this avenger if they both rushed him with minimal consequences. Though she would have liked a more tactful approach, she couldn't really argue against it, given the reasoning and her own recent experiences. "Hai, it's about the best plan we have right now anyway... besides if we take it out, the rest of the little ones will flee," she said with a gentle nod, her spear still in hand she tightened her grip just a bit as she focused her eyes on their opponent. "Let's go!" she proclaimed, feeling there was no better time to attack than right just now, she aimed to close the distance between herself and the large dual axe wielding Lizardman Avenger, making use of her increased agility to get around the first of its dual downward slashes with its axes.