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Tomoe Tomoe has proven to be in typical fantasy villain fashion has been not in the field very much, today she's watching riding on the back of the cave dragon boss who has become her war mount as of late for his valiant service.

She has picked out one of the staging points in the near by mountains and is observing, today.

The dark generals and the elite mercenaries of the Dark Lady have been deployed already by teleport crystal near by and the camp is in staging distance there's clearly supplies, weapons and a number of adventuring sorts all set up and the mysterious mage from last time is there their cloak clearly visible, also one might notice that the huge form of Bolt Vanderhuge is also about he's currently feeding his large attack beast while the twins are looking over a map.

Now's about the time to strike it seems they didn't have observation spells up or that more likely the party has teleported plain past them. They clearly are planning something today, from the looks of thing and there could be more of the 'heroes' about but then again? People have made a dent in smote of them notably Bolt himself who is a local.

By stealth or direct attack the time to hit them is /now/.
Silica     The Mistress of Mayhem, Dark Silicon, is here! She's not riding her Wyvern today, instead she's seated regally on a large Ice Boar... it's Nana, she got bigger. Pina perches on her shoulder, Hibiki is coiled around one arm and Kobayashi, the Hawkbat, is fluttering nearby, along with the swarm of RapierBugs... she's clearly waiting for someone else to initiate things, hanging back in the treeline, though the heros will probably be able to 'sniff' her out if they have any kind of Tracking ability.
Yuuki Konno     Stealth! This is Yuuki's specialty! Well okay, not really. When it comes down to it she's not actually all that good at stealth. She can wear good blending-in clothing, she can stick to shadows, but she's really not often still enough to pass without notice.

    That said she's dressed up in her 'ninja' gear and hides fairly well so long as no one's actually looking at her. She squirms as she looks down on the 'heroes', obviously eager for the upcoming battle. Some of the talk gives her pause though. Is it wrong to look forward to fighting when someone could die?

    Abruptly the imp shakes her head, her neck scarf's tails swishing like hair from the motion. It's not really her thing to worry about right or wrong. She just does what she does, and her morals typically see her through it okay. And if anyone has a problem with that, if they want to overthink things, that's their problem!

    "So, how do we do this?" Yuuki asks those present. "I was thinking, you know, high-speed flight and we destroy their supplies and stuff. Let them know they don't dare make camp here! Then maybe have some fun with them!" she grins.
Iria By day she's a bounty hunter who fights evil. But when she's not fighting evil, Iria's got many other things taking her time up. Including things like this, which may seem like a simple game to some, but to Iria it's more than just that. It's turned out to be about life and death at times, among other things. It makes the average video game seem like child's play.

Whether it's running in guns-a-blazing or stealthily striking, Iria's made for either one. Although right now, having surveyed the general area, Iria's leaning towards the instinct of stealth instead of of running in all-out. "There's a lot of them, and if we try to thin their numbers before we actually attack, it'll make things easier," Iria explains.
Kirito     Stealth or direct attack on the heroes? Kirito doesn't really want to hurt these guys. Whether they're players or NPCs, it doesn't MATTER to him. Because the Spriggan warrior Kirito has his principles, dammit.

    That's why, quite without warning, a black METEOR comes zipping out of the sky and SLAMS straight into the outskirts of the camp, kicking up a cloud of dust and debris. When the wind carries it away... Kirito stands there, shoulders tense... but weapons still sheathed across his back. Elucidator and Dark Repulsor are on display, but his expressions are hidden behind the fierce demon mask. He still wears the added black spikes and other Ominous Looking Dark General Gear over his usual getup.

    "Alright!" The young man's voice booms, in as deep and commanding a fashion as he can manage. "This has gone on long enough. Come out here and tell me what you hope to gain sieging our home."

    Proving the point of his commanding approach, Kirito folds his arms and does his absolute best to look dire and intimidating... without crossing the line into hostile.
Xiaomu It's far from the first time that Xiaomu has had to figure out how to deal with an armed encampment like this. Sometimes it's been samurai and soldiers, sometimes it's been oni and other youkai, sometimes it's just been a pack of brigands - but during her centuries of trying to protect innocents without blowing her cover as a fox spirit, Xiaomu has seen encampments like this more often than she bothers to count up.

And really, the differences between them are just in the details: the quality of the armor, the size of the individuals comprising the pack, the existence and number of beasts of burden ...

At least this bunch doesn't seem to have any camp followers (or slaves, for that matter). That actually puts them one up on most of the unfriendly groups Xiaomu's ever had to favor with her attention. And they don't smell nearly as rank as your average marauding band of oni - but they won't be depending on their own sense of smell that much, either. Probably.

For now, Xiaomu just makes her own approach without trying to draw attention. With a big sedge hat over her head, and swathed in a dark robe (not black, but in non-patterns of dark gray and green), the sort-of-disguised sage fox meanders towards Bolt Vanderhuge and his mount, angling in behind the beast.

Even if somebody sees her, it's not like she's recognizable in this get-up - not unless somebody happens to lean in for a look *under* the hat, and it's shadowing her face enough to obscure her identity even then.
Touta Konoe Touta has been mostly staying in the background so far just listening to how the others want to handle the situation. He's not much of a raid kinda guy, or a planner usually so he figures he'll probably just end up going with the flow. If anything he feels like he's more just support than anything at this point. Even if he is suppose to be one of those 'Dark Generals', or did the story consider him a 'Mercenary'? He'll have to figure that out later cause Kirito just dropped right into the enemy base!

So far he's kept to the same attire as before. A black robe that almost seems more like mage attire than vampire attire, whatever that's suppose to be. For now though he's sort of just on the outskirts with the others who haven't decided to step into the spot light yet. Waiting to see if he needs to step in.

"Hey Kurobo, do me a favor and keep it easy with the death threats this time will ya? Last time you freaked that priestess out pretty bad." The boy directs the statement towards his sword recalling the last time he had decided to let him act as their voice since Touta's seemed a bit more...Not very threatening.

"Oh come now, I said what was appropriate for the time. Anyway, pay attention. You'll likely be going out there soon."

The boy scratches his head with a bit of worry before putting the hood on. Whelp, one can only hope for the best.
Staren     Staren doesn't have any flying constructs, so instead he's flying alongside Tomoe. The wings look like Cait Sith wings, so it's not at all unusual here.

    He's kind of lost as to what to actually DO here. Usually he either attempts to vaporize enemies, or occasionally talk to them.

    What are they going to do?
Tomoe the Mistress of Mayhem Dark Silicon is here she's on the back of an Ice Boar and she's now not along no she's got more of her minions with her. The strange cloaked mage pauses for a moment and start to turn their head, with the amount of clothing they have on it's hard to tell a gender. They turn their head looking out to the tree line eyes narrowing for a moment and they hop down from their perch moving towards the tree line.

Yuuki meanwhile is planing to take out the heroes supplies is a good plan. However, the food and other supplies are near the center of the camp rather than the edge. It seems Bolt and company have enough sense to keep their goods on hand and nearly by till it should be possible to get at them.

then comes Kirito calling out and getting attention the female of the twins looks up.

"Hey it's them looks like we dallied too long!"

She's already pulling her weapon but doesn't move to attack yet.

"Oh what of you think. Money, fame, after what you all did to Grandia? Sides your worshipers of Oberon that's enough of a reason to kill you after his subversion of the world tree!"

Bolt meanwhile is getting ready to go in but he has been distracted pretty well, the monk seems welcome as one of the camp people calls ou.

"A monk?! Good we could use the help your timing in perfect."

The priest can't be seen within the camp today, from the looks of it thankfully but the others are mounting and they are getting ready to attack the mage seems to be chanting and bolt's making prepertion the twins wings are out and they are making ready to move.

"Any last words?"

Meanwhile Tomoe looks to Staren from the back of the Dragon.

"What ever happend to all that riot contcrol gear you had? Why not try that or look into disabling spells, there are items that can mimic spells right?"

Meanwhile the heroes may be using Kirito's talk to prep or they may not and Bolt seems to be hurrying on his preperations now.
Silica     Silica watches from afar. Then she spots the hooded figure moving closer to her. She clicks her tongue to her pets, getting them ready but making sure they're not in an 'aggressive' posture... looking to see what the figure does. She lifts her chin imperiously, but makes no move to retreat or advance, and says nothing until she's certain the hooded figure /has/ seen her and is moving to engage.
Kirito     Money, fame, and vengeance. Those are the reasons these so-called heroes have assembled under to threaten his dear friend's life. Behind the mask, Kirito clenches his teeth. He's not sure whether he's dealing with NPCs generated by the lore of Alfheim or some players who are just like him and take immersing into the world a bit more seriously than most.

    But to Kirito, the difference is pretty much nil. Bad reasons are bad reasons. Threats to his friends are threats to his friends. And in this new, strange world, an NPC is as much a person to him as any other could be.

    His disgust is all but palpable. It seethes from him.

    "Heroes. That's what you call yourselves? With reasons like those? Maybe if we actively threatened your lands and pillaged your homes, you'd have something to cry about. But!" Kirito's not sure what's gotten into him. Because he rarely has any hero speeches in him. He's always liked to keep most of his words to himself and avoid granstanding.

    Yeah. It's probably the atmosphere of the moment.

    "You're not here for justice. You're not here to protect loved ones. Bloodlust and greed, that's all you're here for!"

    Dramatically the Dark General swipes at his menu and rapidly fingers through a flurry of inventory options. Elucidator, the enchanted blade of obsidian that peeks over his right shoulder, vanishes in a flicker of blue light. It's replaced swiftly with a very different, larger blade. A gleaming luster that can only be gold, guard inlaid with three brilliantly cut green gems, with another spherical green gem for its pommel.

    Kirito reaches both hands up and clasps Holy Sword Excaliber in his right hand and Dark Repulsor, the blade of white-blue crystallite, in his left. Both are drawn smoothly as he drops into a battle-ready stance.

    The holy sword catches the light spectacularly, seeming almost aglow as it's brandished against the would-be heroes, held by a figure so contrastingly garbed in black.
Staren     Staren blinks at Tomoe. "You saw me use it the first time, when we fought in the town, remember? The taser bullets didn't /do/ anything to them. But I guess we can try the foam, or some tear gas or something..."

    Seeing that negotiations are breaking down below them, he pulls an SMG with some kind of underbarrel device from his bag and aims it down at Bolt, firing a series of tiny pen-sized missiles, which explode into quick-hardening foam. It's not much per missile, but maybe if he can hit one person with more than one of them...

    "Who the heck is Oberon and why would we be worshipping him? Wait, wasn't that the avatar of the creepy guy who kidnapped a bunch of people and trapped them in Alfheim?! Why would we WORSHIP that?!"
Yuuki Konno     As Kirito boldly ruins all their planning by going forth and confronting the enemy, Yuuki frowns in irritation. It should be HER charging in recklessly, like her teammate Leeroy! Well, maybe not like Leeroy. Perhaps it's better that Kirito take that role for now so Yuuki can continue to look cautious and wise!

    Besides it gives her the chance to exercise her SNEAKY NINJA SKILLS!!! While everyone more or less is probably looking mostly at Kirito, she swoops off in a ground-hugging flight between trees and around boulders, using her uncanny agility to keep her mostly out of sight rather than doing anything actually stealthy.

    It's not that she really wants to solve this with stealth rather than in a blaze of glory, though she does want to maintain some degree of role here as the evil ninja minion. She just doesn't want to entirely foul up Kirito's attempt at diplomacy by being spotted taking advantage of his actions! Flitting forward, she makes her way closer, closer, trying to set up an attack on the heroes' supplies. Destroy most of their supply stash, they're stuck with whatever they're carrying in inventory. Enough for a single raid, but not enough to allow them to fall back and recover repeatedly while learning the defenses and the fights involved in the raid.
Xiaomu "A monk is never late," Xiaomu murmurs, inclining her head to the camp member who greeted her. "Nor is she early. She always arrives ..." She lays a hand gently on the flank of Bolt's warbeast, as if to soothe the animal. "... exactly when she needs to."

Her arm tenses; mystical energy courses through her - and she sends a surge of energy directly into the beast's haunch, not to heal but to hurt, jabbing the 'needle' as deep as she can.

She'd probably do better with an *actual* cattle prod, as opposed to the variation on her rarely-used 'lasers' of yin energy, but she didn't have time to go shopping. As it is, she's gambling on her magic working more effectively to shock the beast into sudden and uncontrolled motion than any mundane implement would, under the circumstances. And this might even give her a better chance at plausible deniability, since she *doesn't* have something which clearly could have set the beast off.
Iria Meanwhile, Iria has been hanging off to the side, keeping an eye on things from a distance. Her katana has been drawn and has materialized into a solid blade from its usual chain-blade form. She's a little wary about the whole thing, as it's not the typical online game thing that she's been used to, but instead happening in the real world. Which means more consequences than usual if she messes up in any way.

She uses her binoculars to survey things, watching and waiting before making her next move. If one looks closely, though, they'll see her right foot is twitching a little as if she's eager to get moving. Her right lip narrows to show a slight sneer as well.

Then Iria notices Yuuki moving in, and she puts her binoculars away and attempts to move in as well, albeit off to the 'side' a little so that there's less chance of her being discovered. "I'd love to see them duplicate skills like this in a video game," Iria says with a grin. "You can't copy eliteness like this!"

She lands in a crouch nearby just as Xiaomu attempts to 'needle' the warbeast, and a smirk forms on the bounty hunter's face. "Whatever you're up to Xiaomu, I doubt it's anything pleasant!" The katana is raised once again as Iria prepares to move in. She doesn't entirely know what Xiaom is up to, but she's got a hunch that it's definitely going to prove that they're in this spot for something other than conversation.
Touta Konoe Looks like this game doesn't present people's names to people or if they're suppose to be an enemy. Otherwise Xiaomu would have been so busted....So Touta decides to follow her example! It's at this point that Touta waltz into the camp. He's not charging in. He's not being sneaky about it. He's not even disguised. Well...Kinda sorta. He's usual clothes would probably seem pretty off so instead he's just wearing that black robe without the hood up and his sword tucked away under it. So honestly...He looks like a spikey-haired twelve-year old whose loitering around Bolt's camp. He's got a similar plan to Yuuki's except instead of sneaking around, he's literally in plain sight. Plus it gives him a great view of Kirito challenging the adventurers.

Sadly there isn't time to observe. He needs to make sure that he finds all the supplies these guys have. While he figures that there's plenty hanging about outside, there's probably even more inside their tents or bases or whatever it is they are using. So Touta looking like a pretty average NPC takes the opportunity with all these schenanigans going around to literally just look around this place till he finds something worth taking.

Hmmm, maybe he's becoming a thief class.
Tomoe The mysterious mage has indeed seen Silicia now and is starting to chant, golden runes fly about their body they cast a spell it's a seeking one they are marking Silicia they know she's there and the mage is moving in now chanting again, but this time it seems like it's a far bigger spell, and then it goes off it's not an attack spell, no it's a speed one and they are rapidly closing on Silica the bait has been taken.

"Or we didn't use enough you know how many of those it would take to pause me my dear dark general."

Tomoe notes as she continues to watch she wants to jump in but she' got a par tot play and she fears what major deviation might do, they are stuck in Cardinal's narrative for the moment.

Yuuki meanwhile is going to go after the food, with everyone's eyes on Kirito save the mage? Xiaomu's plan is getting into action here she moves to lay her hand on the war beast then comes the magic cattle prod get that beast to rear up and kick Bolt in the chest seeing him flying back with a cry of shock meanwhile the best is running away now and the big bulky Gnome is trying to get up.

"Wait a moment Misty.....said..."

He looks right at Xiaomu but he's rather busy getting the heck back up.

Iria now has a chance to move and Bolt manages to utter.

"Vieo game?! Game?! YOU THINK THIS IS A GAME GIRL?!"

He's getting up and he's now very not happy here,m he's also going for his weapon but s things happen.

One could think of these heroes existence as somewhat tragic they were made or altered to be like this, even if they have free will they had to start somewhere? The spriggans eyes go wide at that blade, no both blades appear. Both say in unison.

"How do you have those swords!"

The twins are quite, shocked and stare Bolt is too out of it and dealing with other things to notice just yet and the mage is after Silica so Touta gets a chance to sneak around and look for things with the supplies targeted what Touta might notice is a /map/ detailing where they plan to hit the castle with and several more camp sites...

The female of the twins is gaping at Kirito.

"You can't... have that holy blade it would burn you to cinders."

she takes a rush at Kirito with her strange daggers out, and her brother

"Wait don't"!

He's now starting to move into action going after his sister.
Silica     Silica sees the spells being cast... She clicks her tongue to her pets, who spread out... the mage is buffing themself, not attacking with magic, so they might not be an actual magic user. Instead they may be a melee fighter who heavily relies on magic buffs. This could be tricky. She begins chanting her own spellwork, casting a shield on herself and her pets. The interlocking blue plates appearing for a moment before they fade out. She begins casting again, her tail lashing lightly behind her. This time it's an attack spell, needles of wind magic appearing around her, but holding off on releasing them. They hang there after the spell completes, the Mistress of Mayhem holding them off and giving the hooded figure a dour look. "You thing you can take me on your own? You are more foolish than I first believed."
Xiaomu More or less exactly as planned. Which is, really, the best you can ever hope for.

Xiaomu grins widely beneath her broad-brimmed sedge hat, twirling her staff briefly before *slamming* its butt down on the ground in front of her. "Do not meddle in the affairs of foxes, for you have a lot of gold that could buy a *lot* of fried tofu," she remarks.

And where her staff struck the ground - and remains pressed against it - ice starts spreading out around where the sage fox in monk's clothing is standing. Mostly she's aiming to ice over the ground underneath the "heroes'" collective feet - Bolt in particular, so he can't get up again, but also the rest of his allies, whether they're flat-footed or in motion. On the other hand, that kind of intentionally-treacherous footing could catch her allies as well - so the least she can do is warn them.

Granted that sheet ice underfoot isn't going to stop *all* of the self-proclaimed good guys, but it's a start - and Xiaomu can't encase all of them in enough ice to immobilize them as quickly as she can try to mess up their footing. Really, keeping Bolt and his buddies off-balance is the most she expects to get right now ... but KEEPING them off-balance is just about as good as a win, right?
Yuuki Konno     Okay well things are well-and-truly started now. Part of Yuuki wants to swoop on in and peel one of the twins off Kirito. Considering how fast those two are, he's probably not up to taking on both of them. And Asuna won't talk to Yuuki if she allows Kirito to get too badly hurt!

    Then there's another part of her who, despite wanting to fight the good fight, figures the best way to resolve this is NOT with a potentially-fatal fight. So she continues what she's doing, swooping in to cut hell out of the Heroes' portable feast. And with that done, she starts slashing all the tie-downs for the Heroes' tents and such. Just wrecking the camp really, chopping into anything that looks breakable and heavy or bulky. Or just breakable really. She doesn't need to be fussy.
Iria Wait, was Iria talking to herself out loud again? Damn. She thought she was whispering or thinking to herself. Apparently she was talking to herself again.

"Of course this is no video game!" Iria snaps, her smirk now replaced with a fierce scowl. "This is life or death we're talking about!" She holds her katana so that the blade gleams a little. "See this blade? It's real as anything, and it'll cut you down if you're not careful!"

With that, Iria proceeds to go into a demonstration of blade techniques, although the purpose isn't to actually attack anyone, but to show that she's serious about this whole thing. "I'll slice 'n' dice ya into rice!" She would've smiled, but that quote from Xiaomu gets a nasty scowl from Iria.
Kirito     "Would it? Or have you just /convinced yourself/ that your cause is so righteous?!" Kirito retorts, the moment clearly very heated now that he has the familiar weight of swords in his grips. Everything feels so much more Him when he's wielding his favored weapons. On the one hand, this battle is utterly pointless. He really doesn't want to go against anything that's not a designated quest monster or otherwise unquestionably open season!

    Behind the mask, he again clenches his teeth. He KNEW this was a stupid idea from the start. They're not going to be turned back so easily. But... he knows for a facct that even if they're Quest NPCs on a mission, they CAN change course if he changes their minds hard enough.

    If a certain Elf can make her own decisions, then why can't this crew?

    So he brandishes his weapons in a 'come at me!' manner when the young woman comes at him with her daggers. He ducks down under the first swipe and swings upwards with Dark Repulsor's flat to her wrists, aiming to knock her grip off and if not disarm her then at least mess up her offense or balance.

    Wordlessly, the boy rises up with his swords turning into blurs of blue and gold as he aims to beat her back with a quick flurry of strikes - strikes that he's holding back with!

    He doesn't just stay there and press forward though. Kirito shifts to a defensive style after that first bit of aggression, attempting to lure the twins into following step after step. After all, each step they're following him in a rage is a step further out of range of their allies!

    And the more attention on him, the less is on his allies!
Tomoe Bolt is almost on his feet and then comes the foam carrying missiels and for the moment he's now caught in place not able to move and while he might break free there should be a moment or two to act against them.
Staren     "Or we didn't use enough; You know how many of those it would take to pause me, my dear dark general." Tomoe replies. Staren looks at her. "Oh, I've been promoted? Well, let's find out!"

    The 'cait sith' mad scientist dives down -- once he's closer to the ground, he starts firing the SMG -- it IS loaded with those shock-generating gel rounds, so he'll find out just how many it takes to bring Bolt down while he's stuck in place! Even if he has to use the whole magazine!
Touta Konoe So doing absolutely nothing to hide your appearence is apparently the best kind of stealth around. Maybe he should consider being the ninja...

That's irrelevant though. What isn't irrelevant though are these maps and base locations that they just have lying around. This could come in handy.

But if he ends up just taking them then they'll probably know that the Dark group knows that they know...About knowing. So instead he's just going to pull out his cellphone and take a few pictures. That'll be okay right? Probably!

And with a few snaps of his phone he thinks he's done a good job. "Alright, so now I just gotta bring this back to Tomoe and the rest and we're all se- Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaghhhhhhhhhhhh!!!"

Apparently when Yuuki takes down all the tents, she may or may not have accidently taken out the one he was currently in. And now instead of being in a secure and properly built tent he feels like he's stuck in an oversized blanket. Well at least he got the pictures. So it'll take him a bit of time but when he does, he sees that the fighting's really escalated a bit. Well, he could choose to fight if he needed to, but honestly everyone would probably appreciate it more if he took the path of less resistance. So he just starts bolting away from the direction of the action without his hood on. If anything he kinda figures people will think he was just a kid who thought he could handle being an adventurer and just scrammed. Yeah, that'll probably work.
Tomoe The unknown Mage is now hot on Silica's heels and it's time to get this showdown started, as the mage chases after Silica, they know ther emay be a trap and maybe theya re just buffing? It could be that but it seems it may be somethign worse as more runes come that's when the magic is going to be let lose, nothing is said zave more spell canting and then comes an barrage of powerful winds and several bolts of lightning at Silica and her beastsd.

"Or are you, your cut off!"

The gender of the mage is hard to tell but what sort of magic user could someone like this be?

Bolt is stuck in the foam for now, and this gives Xiaomuy time to move and well ice up the whole cant site.

"You your the one Mistuy is after!"

Bolt Manges to get out he does not seem happy at Xiaomu's very good imperession of Saya level antics here. Several of the other there are slipping and sliding and not able to get up or get to flying, the beasts are also having issues but one is bable to dig it's claws into the ice and chages at Xiaomu roaring loudly.

The supplioies are expiosed and yuuki makes her move. The supploes meet a grim fate aas she makes a mess of everything she can but there won't be much time to delay if she wants to help save kirito's hitde.

Irira meanwhile is. Bolt growls at her.

"You called it a game not I!"

He looks confused as she just shows off as he tries to break free before she choses to remove his head.

Kirito meanwhile is getting the attention of the twins and they are mocing after him, moving after him hard.

"We know it is!"

Comes the female Spriggan and she's pretty darn fast all things considered did Cardial crib notes from Kirito's states when it made them?

the two arte attacking but Kirito's style is pretty brutal given his experiance not just his own inate avatar abilties the fight goes 9on but something happens s they attack but Kirito p parryin them the otehr twin comments as he attemsp to come fromt eh side. 5R
"Really I saw the ruins of the city state with my own eyes! I'm a theif not a butcher like you!"

Well he just admitted to that, but there's something odd with his ssisters blade, it's whowign major signs of damage, cracking and showing wirelines which grow with each strike.

"Someone has to run the science R&D, evil science after all is immortal."

Bolt meanwhile is hammere swith stun rounds as he's trying to get lose and it's not looking very good for him given he's cleary being effected as Staren just isn't letting up, Touta has done well to gather some intel which will be of use, and he's able to get out without notice in all the chaos that is going on here.
Staren     "Holy shit." Staren swears as he sees how many shots it took to take Bolt down. Emptying the magazine on a normal human would be torture, or maybe even lethal, but that's what it took to get this guy?

    He'll come back and spray the freezer foam solvent after the fight.

    Staren grins at Tomoe and gives her a thumbs-up. Then he ejects the magazine and loads a fresh one, looking for anyone who needs help, happy to send more stun rounds their opponents' way.
Xiaomu Relying too much on the terrain to do your work for you is risky, and Xiaomu knows that about as well as anyone should expect to. But at the same time, when trying to fight against a numerically superior force, you kind of *have* to use the playing field against them - you just have to be careful of the foes it doesn't work on.

So when one of those beasts manages to dig in past the ice and get enough footing to charge, Xiaomu has an ear perked and an eye open for it - and since it *is* a beast that's charging her, not a person (PC or NPC), she feels little compunction about drawing blood.

It's not exactly a maneuver that would make a matador proud, but Xiaomu goes from 'standing still' to 'moving quickly' with relatively deft timing - and as she moves, she draws Suiren from its sheath, hidden inside the staff she carries. The straight blade glints in the light, not like steel alone but like a layer of flawless ice, and she slashes at the beast's flank in an effort to sever tendons.

It's not going to be anywhere near surgically precise, but it shouldn't have to be; she just needs to put this beast off-balance - and more importantly, it's time to get going. Touta's got the plans, the "heroes'" supplies are pretty well wrecked, and Bolt has gone down hard enough to possibly reconsider his career plans. In short, mission accomplished; time for the Dark Lady's side to skedaddle.

Re-sheathing her elemental sword, Xiaomu conjures up another slab of ice and begins 'sledding' off, using more ice magic to propel her ride over the ground. If any of her allies are in a good position to jump on board en passant, she'll tweak her speed and steering for their benefit. Otherwise? Well, as she's so fond of saying ... High Speed Xiaomu!
Kirito     "What ruins?!" Kirito demands. It may well be that this is just a glitch of some sort, but that does not matter. Tomoe did not do it and therefore, these two are lying! Because that's just how it is to him.

    "Where's your proof?!"

    The twins have an advantage of wielding far more weapons than he, but Kirito's a quick and nimble fighter despite his emphasis on overwhelming assaults! Shifted to full defense like this, he parries blow after blow. Only a few get through his defense when they split up and flank him. Blades sink into him again and again, but NEVER anywhere critical. Never enough to completely offset his Battle Healing. He grunts and hisses from blow after blow but none of them really amount to anything as he stays on the defensive...

    All until...

    He waits until the twins have committed themselves to another assault and then brings his weapons about. Both shine a brilliant white-violet---!

    "HUUUUOOOOOOAGHH!!!"

    Swoosh-slash-slash-slash! The two holy swords become a blur of strikes back and forth, criss-crossing, as Kirito aims to overwhelm the two's defense. Disarm them, maybe even shatter that ailing weapon entirely!

    But it's timed to avoid strikign vitals, if luck is with him!
Tomoe Tomoe says "Looks like it, about time wait how many did you, the full clip? That's gnomes for you Staren."

Bolt is finally down the man is quite tank, with all things considered and with Iria on watch he shouldn't be an issue there and with Yuuki ninjing about he should be out of the picture.

Well then with Xiamou doing her darnest to make a mess of thing with the beast charging her.

This beast though is a digital being much like the NPCs or the local PCs avatar state what is done though is a heck of a lot of damage as it hits a crit point so to beat and it goes skidding it tries to recover but it's hurt bad and she has time to get out and do her thing.

"What do you mean I saw them myself we both did!"

She yells the fighting continues them and the attacks come in from Kirito 5RR the attack comes in the sister is faster she moves again and again to parry as and here bother is not facing as well but the damage to her weapon comes, the cracks grow larger and larger and then it explodes in a shower of crystal like shards she screams dropping, not from the injures shes taken but something's happened.

The quest log for everyone pings.

the heroes defeated count rises from 0 to won. Her bother curses and even with his injuries grabs her and flies for it. Bolt's still laid up and the mage is forced to flee from Silica's beasts
Tomoe It's not over Tomoe make as a stratled sound as she feels a pressure on her back as two large black draconic like wings grow forth almost a moment afdter the first hero was defeated, and she's one very confused they flap they feel like a part of this skin.

"Wha...what what?!"

The dragon speaks up.

"My lady have you not forgottont heir relics supress your true form and power..."

Tomoe just looks to Staren and the wings twitch in annoyanbce not at him but the situation.
Staren     "'Magazine'." Staren corrects Tomoe automatically. Then his eyes widen at the quest ping. "We defeated a hero? Which one counted?!" He looks around.

    And then looks from the dragon to Tomoe with a curious expression. "True form? Can you tutn into a demon now or something?"