Draiss simply stared at her, before shaking his head. "This was a mistake, one I will strive to repeat only if I have no other options, including death. But if you so desperately want to die, then face me, and my wrath. Once I called you friend, now, I know not whether to call you friend or foe, so I will give you this one chance. Pull back, now, or die trying. Verdelet, the Marilith from our adventure together, still lives. And if you honestly think that she is a smaller threat than I, than you are a bigger fool, and far dumber, than I ever considered possible. The blackguard is alive as well, and only the assassin from that room still remains unaccounted for. I would rather work with you, to prove through my actions that I mean no harm to those whom offer mine none, but if that will not convince you to stay your hand, then... die."<br/><br/>She forgot the most basic of rules when fighting another god, and also the simplest. Do not engage on their ground. And she was so firmly mired in his ground that she had no way out but what he offered. Already the very land under her was changing, lava boiling up, heavy with metals and radiation, to poison her and destabilize the magic fields around her, allowing him to form solid attacks outside, and launch them in. She had three seconds to decide, and then he would strike her with the destabilizing lava flow, several physical attacks of adamantine, cold iron, and silver, points like needles, to find and punch through any holes, while he directed several divine blasts through tiny dimension doors to hit her from multiple sides, using more dimension doors to keep the beams from lancing out of play.