Millicent yelled, “Look out!” As the clay copies exploded, shrapnel flew throughout the whole lab. Sarne spun to lift his shield. The shrapnel stuck in the face of his shield as Sarne turned. [1]He continued his momentum and bashed the other injured henchman with his shield. Blood splattered onto the floor from the shards of clay and spikes from the shield cut into the henchman. The henchman stumbled back from the hit.

[2] Nordic rolled forward and lifted his arm to take some shards of clay in his arm and some in the leg. Nordic grunted in pain. [3] Nordic kept moving and rammed the other still-standing henchman sending him in another direction stumbling.

[4] Naesala used others as a shield only a few shards hit her in the side. She thrust her sword and missed the henchman almost getting Nordic. She followed up with the dagger stabbing the henchman in the leg. It went in deep as blood pooled around The dagger. The henchman yelled in pain and fell to one knee.

Vamir managed to move to one side and dodge the shards his Elvin reflexes helped this time. He was near a wall and some distance from the explosions. [5] Vamir took careful aim with the Ray Bow, and the arrow of light formed. With a flash, he released the arrow of light it did strike true in the back of Malik, and it sank into his back making a small hole as the arrow dissipated. The arrow did little damage as Malik looked back in that direction but enough to see Sarne.

[6] Sarne gave him a smile pointing his sword at Malik. the sword fired out a beam of pure light. The beam shot across the room going through Malik. burning him like the sun itself dealing a large amount of light damage. the beem continued in a straight line. The beam passed right through if the beam passed through Malik hitting Gwen and healing all of her surface-level wounds.


[1] Shield Bash with spikes X1 wound to henchman.
[2] Nordic X1 wound.
[3] body Ram to henchman.
[4] Naesala X1 light wound/dagger to henchman X1 wound.
[5] Vamir Ray Bow X1 light wound to Malik
[6] Paladin's Blade beam /Holy Avenger: attacks also ignore resistance and immunity, preventing anyone from negating Sarne's Light damage.

The beam of light pierced them both, Malik screaming in agony as his massive form burned in the radiance. Gwen didn’t even have time to react as the light suddenly encompassed her as well.



Jess and Millicent averted their eyes at the bright flashes of conflict, before jess spoke up. “Holy shit, dude did he just vaporize Gwen?” She looked back up to see the smoldering body of Malik standing motionless in the water, steam rising up from all around him. Another brief flash of light, and the hulking mass of a man collapsed into the sewage, his arms bound behind his back in bright steel shackles still glowing with energy.



Gwendolyn panted, stepping on his back, steam rising from her unmarred body and golden blood dripping from her maul. A primal yell released from deep within her echoed throughout the cistern as the maids look on, awestruck. She panted, before looking down at the man now shrinking before her, shackles shrinking with his wrists to ensure his binding stays secure.



“Malik Imann…” She said, words ragged with exhaustion, before wiping a small bit of blood from her lip. “You’re under arrest. Anything you say… can be used against you… in a court of law.” And with that, the last remaining bit of her strength escaped her. Gwen collapsed into the water beside him.

Sarne sighed in relief as he fell to one knee. He looked over to Gwendolyn with a weak smile. "I thought we were both in trouble there," said Sarne breathing heavily. Sarne looked around, and none of the underlings of the madman were still standing. They were quickly shackled and sat next to one another with Nordic, Naesala, and Vamir watching over them. Then Sarne realized that Gwendolyn was not moving.

Sarne raised to his feet and ran over to Gwendolyn picking her up some. Sarne placed one knee on Malik's back and rested Gwendolyn in his lap. "You are one tough woman I hope never to make you angry at me," commented Sarne placing a hand on her shoulder gently. [1] all of Gwendolyn's injuries start to glow in a gold hue with light coming out of the cuts and bruises as the injuries are healed the light fades until there are no more injuries and Gwendolyn is fully recovered.

Sarne turned to Nordic and Naesala "Help collect any leftover serums we need to bring back to the guild for inspection. Inventory them and turn them over to Millicent for Lady Gwendolyn." conveyed Sarne as he looked to others to heal. Sarne reached down and grabbed Malik Imann lifting him easily. "Too bad you are wanted alive I would feed you to Screech my Terror Bird or if you give me any trouble. I just might anyway," warned Sarne. 

With everyone working together, The party was able to get everything that was required for evidence and the suspects and get them to a door that was not noticed before that led out and to the surface.

Sarne paused in the doorway and took one last look at the room. Sarne gave a grin. "Malik Imann, say goodbye to all your Evil works." he said with a cruel tone. Sarne drew his sword he turned the blade flat and said some words. A wall of yellow translucent light, hanging in the air and glowing in front of them that blocked the way to the lab. With another turn of the sword, the room filled with light in the area of the lab equipment it was like rays of the sun burned threw the stuff left behind.

It exploded on a ball of fire it consumed everything that was there. on the surface, smoke started to come out of some drainage holes and other cracks in the ground. by the time everyone reached the surface city guards and the representatives from Golden Consortium were waiting.


[1] Major Healing Light Domain Spell

The soothing light flowed through her body, curing all that ailed her. If only it had cleaned all the sewer muck off of her clothes as well, though that seemed to be a problem for another time. She breathed a sigh of relief, before giving Sarne weak appreciative grin. “Thanks for the help. Couldn’t…” She grunted, pulling herself to her feet with the knights assistance “…Have done it without you.”



After reaching the surface, a crowd had apparently gathered, along with a well armoured wagon for their prisoner. Malik hid his face under his long hair as he was walked to the guards, several of the peasants throwing whatever they could. Guards held the crowd back as his shackled were attached to the iron bars of the carriage. Gwen helped the maids properly catalog the retrieved evidence with the Consortium representatives. Huge amounts of poison produced by this lab had apparently been found in the nearby watersheds. Luckily, it had been stopped before reaching the drinking supply, though cleanup work would still have to be done.



Reporters for the Lore Gazette arrived, and clamored against the guards, attempting to get quotes from the heroes of the day. Lord Sequoia, Lady Gwendolyn, Naesala, Vamir, Nordic, Millicent, Mori, and Jessica would each be hounded on their retreat to the awaiting carriage. The maids were well trained to not interact with the press, and Gwen waved off most of their advances. Instead, she turned to the nobleman who had came down into hell with her, offering her gauntlet as Sarne emerged from the smoking hidden entrance.



“It’s been a pleasure. Maybe next time we cross paths, it will be in more peaceful times.”

Sarne watched the retrieved evidence with the Consortium representatives. with the large quantities of toxin produced by Malik Imann's lab had been discovered in watersheds in the area. If it had gotten into the drinking water supply, thousands would have died and the cleanup would have taken a long time.

Sarne was impressed with Lady Gwendolyn's maids their efficiency was to be commended. The speed at which they found the additional toxin produced by Malik Imann's lab surprised Sarne. The teamwork between Nordic, Naesala, and Vamir with the Maids saved the day.

"Lady Gwendolyn, I was honored to help," replied Sarne looking a little tired himself. "You can stop by Gray keep any time as my gest. That includs your madens as well," said Sarne sincerely. "I will always be happy to host you at Gray keep," commented Sarne.

Nordic, Naesala, and Vamir were starting to help with crowd control and keeping back lines of people. As the Lore Gazette reporters tried to push threw. Nordic was in their faces not looking happy and had his two axes out. They had tangled with Nordic before and did not want a repeat of last time so they back off some.

Sarne looked at the crowd and wondered if he should make them leave. several thoughts went through his mind and Sarne decided he would let it go for now. there was no need for him to deal with the crowd right now.

Sarne took one last look around and saw that everything was being handled He would go back to the guild and let the Guild Master Shaa the mission was completed.