Shang-qing would have been a rather pathetic excuse for a god if he hadn't been aware there were intruders to his mountaintop headquarters before they had even arrived, but the old man didn't show half the concern Cosmos did. Instead, he muffled a little chuckle of amusement as Giselle found herself surrounded by armored Basilisks. If she couldn't handle this little match-up, then she didn't stand a chance against the armies of Cosmos and Chaos, or at least that's how the God of Balance saw it. Without another word, he simply disappeared from where he stood on the surface of the pond as if he had never been there at all, retreating to a nice, comfortable spot to watch the events down below unfold.<br/><br/>Up in the area of the Keep, to Isabel's possible irritation, she would find this particularly creature less slow and dim-witted than most monsters, as it actually managed to jump back out of the way of her quick attack, hissing at her and swiping at her arm with one blade leg. The other three would start to cautiously advance in as well, but these four would turn out to be just the beginning of her problem. Even with just the moonlight, she would be able to shadows in the shapes of these same creatures climbing up from pits all around the complex, sticking themselves to the undersides of walkways and the walls of buildings, on the roofs and going into windows. There were probably dozens of them in just this first wave, and, for the moment, it didn't look like there were many other people around to fight them.