Without the benefit of weapons, and most importantly sight, the battle became more intense. Xelkitti and Verath now had to rely on their hearing and reflexes to save themselves from becoming injured. This wasn't all that hard, both of them were well conditioned and had no trouble evading their attackers. The preps never thought of any battle tactics at all, everything was done on whim, which made evading more difficult (because you couldn't rationally predict where the next blow would be) or easier (their speed and reflexes were atrocious). The only problem was that Xelkitti and Verath's offensive was down to next to nothing, since it is quite difficult to evade half a dozen randomly place slashes while trying to grab someone's sword. Xelkitti thus began dodging and leaping towards the wall with the weapons. Verath, however, had other ideas. He plucked ninja stars and steel-edged cards from dead bodies and threw them in the general direction of assault. Several preps fell to this new trick.