The common warstrider lets out a hideous shrieking noise, half metal twisting apart under the glowing impact of the daiklave, and half the man inside's dying cries as the warstrider collapses, eviscerated, long chains and a surprising quantity of blood sagging out of its metallic chest from the deathblow that King has dealt to it.<br/><br/>'You are indeed formidable, Anathema!' comes the cry from the Noble Warstrider, as it swirls its blade, and brings it down towards King. Two blows strike like meteors, falling downwards seemingly simultaneously. These blows are accurate enough, from the hands of a Dragon-Blooded warrior, to pierce the skilled defense of even a strong Anathema, and rain down with enough force to pulverize King. As they strike, the force sends up a spiralling cloud of sand, the Dragon-Blooded's anima beginning to burn energetically as he expends his Essence, igniting the sand, leaving shards of glass to fall. As the sand slowly falls in a rain, it tinkles as it encounters a resistance- The gigantic, glowing anima of King, a tall human, six golden wings erupting from its back, its fist mirroring King's Daiklave, which holds the tremendous Jade daiklave of the Dragon-blooded back, both straining, until finally the Dragon-Blooded withdraws its arm, yielding to the unbreakable stance of the Heavenly Guardian Defense, the shimmering golden light of King's anima refracted in a shimmering rainbow by the shards of glass surrounding him, effortlessly crushed back into powder underfoot.<br/><br/>The remaining Common Warstrider charges in, and strikes a blow towards the Night-caste, but her nimble feet send her tumbling beneath it, and as it tumbles over her in an overextension of its attack, she fires the blossom of golden death upwards into the jade warstriders belly, making it visibly rise in the air before crashing to the ground, in a recovery roll to face the Night Caste.<br/><br/>OOC: King stops both attacks with Heavenly Guardian Defense, Muse dodges the attack, and gets 7 successes, which net 3 health levels of damage. It's at -1 currently. Saffron is up.