Valerius steps from the shadows, his boots crunching loudly over shattered flagstones. He draws his blade in a fluid, practiced motion, the steel catching the dim, graveyard light. He fixes his gaze on Xarsthos with icy contempt.
Valerius
You clumsy brute. That artifact was forged in the dying embers of a star, and you cast it into the abyss like common refuse.
Valerius
The Warlord will have his head for this insolence. I should leave him to the sinkhole, yet the blade's residue still clings to him.
Xarsthos
It was corrupting this land, and your master’s trinket nearly claimed a life. I have no apologies for ending the rot.
Xarsthos
His stance is disciplined, but his eyes reveal a flicker of hesitation. He knows I can break him.
Bera
Please, Xarsthos... we have to leave. This place is coming apart.
Valerius
Silence, scavenger. You belong to the earth now.
+ Scene Quest Added
Escape the collapsing graveyard
“I turn and face Valerius. "Your fight is with me scum!!" I snarl. Channeling my demonic rage i charge and land a thunderous blow.”
SUCCESS (Legendary Melee Combat, rolled -1)
The air crackles with latent power as Xarsthos releases his restraint. His eyes burn with an unnatural, smoldering intensity that mirrors the sigil upon his chest. With a roar that momentarily drowns out the groaning of the shifting earth, he launches himself across the uneven ground.
Xarsthos
Your fight is with me, scum!
Xarsthos
He is fast, but his pride has made him arrogant. My steel will find the gap in his guard.
Xarsthos swings his blade in a blinding arc. Valerius attempts to parry, but the force behind the strike is absolute. Metal shrieks against metal as the impact sends a shockwave of dust rippling outward, staggering the warlord's envoy and forcing his blade wide. The graveyard floor beneath them groans, splintering further under the sheer weight of the collision.
Valerius
This strength... it is not merely human. I must survive this to warn the master.
“I yell with furious rage "die scum" I land a killing blow”
SUCCESS (Legendary Melee Combat, rolled -1)
Xarsthos
Die, scum!
Xarsthos channels his fury into a singular, devastating swing. His blade cuts through the swirling dust and the dying light of the graveyard, meeting no resistance as it bites deep into Valerius. The warlord’s envoy lets out a strangled gasp, his own sword slipping from nerveless fingers to clatter against the fractured stone. The momentum of the strike carries through, spinning Valerius around before he collapses onto the buckling earth.
Bera
He actually did it... he silenced the monster.
The ground beneath them gives a final, violent lurch. The sinkhole widens, the edge of the graveyard crumbling away into an abyssal dark. Valerius’s lifeless form slides toward the precipice, teetering on the jagged brink of the maw that threatens to swallow the entire site. Bera stumbles, her feet losing purchase on the shifting debris, her hands scrabbling for a hold on a tombstone that is rapidly tilting into the void.
Quest Complete
Escape the collapsing graveyard
New Gift: Grave-Walker Instinct