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Waking up to dawn was surprisingly funny seeing as he never normally sleep. Knoll would usually stay up for days researching Tomes in Grado's libraries trying to figure out things from Spells, to Alchemy to Necromancy.
Looking out his tent before walking out he spotted Natasha looking at him shivering from the cold air. He never noticed until recently but her robes were a lot thinner then they appeared and must have cause her to have less protection then most people when attacked.
"Natasha are you ready to make leave?" Knoll asked as she nodded before they walked over towards the cliff top.
Gerik was already their with the Dancing Gipsy. It was derogatory to call her such but he didn't know what her name was besides it starting with a T and ending with S or Y.
"So are you ready to leave or do you need to look one last time." The lady asked as Knoll drifted off answering as an informal no.
Getting their to the City of Vijin wasn't hard but escaping was. Knoll didn't know a seal was cast on the area so when he attempted to finish of some type of zombie the seal activated. It didn't stop his magic but instead amplified it to dangerous levels causing the Zombie to implode but also destroy the foundation holding up the lower level of a storage room.
The group of four made it out the area but they were surrounded by ghouls and could barely move from being loaded with items. The items were worths tens of thousands of gold and without a carrage they could carry everything.
"Can't you levitate everything and teleport us somewhere Gerik asked stupidly not understanding the fundamentals of magic."
"I'm a Druid not a magician? Even if I could move us to some random spot I can't move more then I could carry because I'd over tax myself and then there are to many of you and how fast I can move in doing so?" Knoll yelled angrily.
"Then what can you do besides destroy things?" Gerik asked as he used a silver sword to cut down an incoming flying eyeball like enemy.
"This!" Knoll answered summoning a trio of Puppets then after letting the Gipsy heal his fatigue attacking with an Eclipes spell destrying a good portion of the oncoming army.
"Ok that's how we got here in the first place." Gerik commented not in awe in display of Knolls spell ability.
"Then do something." Knoll said as he seen Garik move forward to kill another zombie.
"Let us just leave since they probably are defending what is theirs?" Natasha suggested as Knoll and Gerik both said no.
"How about leaving behind this excess stuff and leaving with this?" The Gipsy suggested as Gerik and Knoll agreed as they all fleed.
Rolling over to wake up wasn't the most comfortable thing nor was it the best. Instincts kicking in as Knoll felt his body press against something Knoll self-preservation skill was to flee once more.
He was no coward but the last thing he wanted to do was wake up to a crazy woman. It was far worse then he thought he didn't wake up to a crazed mage he woke to a crazed Swordsmen.
Apparently Kent the tactician that Erika hired for an mission didn't want to sleep with the beautiful yet deadly Marisa so instead he lied giving Knoll the wrong directions just so he would be safer with Lute.
Thinking that he could leave Knoll turned to leave coolly but was instantly grabbed by the woman.
She jacked him up believing him to trying to rape her and threatened to cut off his genitalia but never went on through as Garik luckily came by to stop her just as Knoll was ready to knock her unconscious with a spell.
Stopping as Knoll was back to reading this time a Book entitled "Light VS Dark the Misconception" Lute strolled by reminding him of their last encounter and with him learning her name he was also advised to befriend her.
"So you must be…" Knoll began before he was ignored then cut off.
"You must be Knoll. I have been researching you and I will find you Achilles' heel sooner or later." Lute said dementedly as her hair fell past her face as she leaned towards him on her horse.
"…OK. Why would you want to do that? Aren't we allies?" Knoll asked trying to calm her as he was well aware of her unusual and unpredictable behavior.
"Because THERE IS NO ONE BETTER THEN ME." Lute responded darkly before adding. "Ok" for good measure.
"I'm sorry?" Knoll said challenging soon regretting his tone as he knew everything was heading down hill.
"I said there's no one better than me. And if there is, I have to stop him. I can't have you threatening my natural superiority here." Lute responded lowly and rather softly as Knoll was surprised by her multiple persona's.
"I'm threatening you're..." Knoll said as he was yet again cut off.
"I've seen you. You use magic, and that makes you competition. And you use dark magic, which makes you the enemy of light." Lute said reminding him exactly of what Forde meant when he said he wasn't a threat since he didn't use magic.
"That is a common misconception, actually, about dark mages; and besides, we're allies here." Knoll pleaded going back to trying to be a friend to calm the bi-polar woman down.
"No, not until we make it clear who is superior." Lute demanded.
"Oh, fine..." Knoll said grudgingly agreeing.
"What, you think you're better than me?" Lute challenged confusing Knoll again.
"I never said that! Look, we're on the same side here. Does it matter? Who's better?" Knoll pleaded once more getting tired of being nice.
"Matter! Of course it matters! How could you possibly think it doesn't? Personally, I think I'm clearly superior to you. Don't you agree?" Lute said with Knoll wanting to say no.
"Do what you like." Knoll said submissively though he didn't like the sound off that as he readily cast an eclipse spell to appear behind Lute.
"... That was close. You were trying to trick me, huh? That's dirty pool." Lute whine as Knoll smirked as she sent an EnFire spell at knoll which he side stepped and attacked hitting her leg but not directly.
"... What I'm saying is..." Knoll tried to explain as Lute began to leave.
"Not safe for me here. I must retreat... for now." Lute muttered as she galloped away on her horse.
"...Crazy woman." Knoll muttered leaving to finish his book.