In front of them was a very heavy built dwarf wearing crimson armor and wielding a giant hammer. He and roughly fifteen Duergar were facing off against a Giant Tiger.
"So it was a Dire Tiger that massacred all these Duergar" June said looking at the Tiger furiously swiping at the Dwarves.
"That Tiger is at least six feet tall so that means we could have made it here without crawling through those tiny fucking tunnels! June you suck with directions!" Micah started complaining.
Alice began to give Micah a death glare as Skylar spoke up "Should we not capture this beast and grant it to Mel Ray as a present? She doth hast a lot of animals on her floor".
June nodded and said "Why not. After we capture it lets bring it back for her. We should save it from the Duergar then, although it does not seem to need saving."
June breathed a sigh of relief as he realized that he was thinking about the worst-case scenarios too much, and was getting himself riled up for nothing. Although caution was bad too much unnecessary caution would just cause undue stress.
"Let's finish off these Duergar, capture the Tiger, then quickly finish this Dungeon. I don't know if monsters respawn anymore, but I would assume they don't." June gave his order.
The four nodded and Skylar quickly started sprinting towards the dwarves. She was wearing gauntlets that were silver in color matching her hair and had spiky fingertips making them look like claws. Most Gauntlets were big and bulky so that they could block weapons, but because her Gauntlets were made out of her own scales, they were very thin and looked just like gloves.
Aurelia grabbed her Pernach which was pure white, and she also ran forward and began bashing in the heads of the Duergar. A one-hit kill for every one of them, because they were such weak monsters compared to those two.
Micah started chanting as flames appeared above his head before flying towards a group of Duergar incinerating them to ash. At this point, the Duergar finally noticed their new enemies, and the biggest one with the Crismon armor started shouting in their Dwarvish language commanding them to fall back into a formation, but at this point, there were not enough Dwarves left to have any semblance of a formation.
There was only four Duergar left including the leader, and they were all huddled next to each other on the defensive, as they knew they had faced some strong enemies.
The Dire Tiger also slowed down its momentum and crouched low to the ground and released a threatening growl towards the group of five trying to ward them off because it could feel a sense of danger emanating from them.
"This poor cat is so frighted! 'tis because thou lacked elegance while killing that 'twere so frighted! Thou just bashed their heads in making blood fly everywhere! Thou knows thou could hast killed them much cleaner!" Skylar said to Aurelia complaining.
"And what of you? You sliced all their throats with your own hands!"
"But 'twas clean!" Skylar said "Even the woman man knows how to pretend to be quaint!"
"Hey! Who said I was pretending! I always have been and always will be a virtuous woman! And it is with good virtue that I say that I will take a man's big fat co- *ough*" Micah was cut short by Alice sending him a punch in the gut.
"Don't sully Master's ears with your disgusting mouth" Alice said glaring at him.
"Yes even though I would love to hear of your fantasies of you engaging in copulation with Master hearing about it with anyone but him is just disgusting," Aurelia said.
" 'Twas why I quoth 'twere naught but an illusion," Skylar said.
At this point, both the Duergar and the Tiger were looking at each other with wide eyes while watching their comedy act.
"Aurelia go finish off those Duergar would you? Skylar, you come with me and subjugate this Tiger" June said to them not getting involved in their comedy act, even though he seemed to be always the topic of their conversation.
"Hey, kitty! We are going to bring you to our hear okay? You see my friend likes to collect cute animals like you" June said as he began walking towards the Tiger with his hands up in an unthreatening pose.
The Tiger began to growl at his and bare its fangs. "Aww, it's so cute! Look its smiling at us!" June said to Skylar. She nodded and said, "Mel Ray will be jubulant".
As they got closer the tiger began to growl even louder and when they were just five steps away the tiger was going to pounce when it felt thick bloodlust being directed at it from all sides. It began to shiver as its legs were wobbling underneath it.
Its mind was near breaking point as the whites of its eyes were shown, it was secretly feeling relief that its bladder was empty otherwise it would have leaked. Wait why was it worried about its bladder when it was about to die?
"Alright that's enough girls, I think you've scared it enough that it will gladly follow along with us," June said.
The bloodlust retreated as Skylar said "Such a moronic beast thinking of attacking Master" and at the same time two "hmmph's" were heard from both Aurelia and Alice. This showed how much Aurelia though of the Duergars not even giving them half her attention, but focusing on June instead.
A quick second later a few bangs were heard from behind him and Aurelia began skipping back towards June with an unconscious Dwarf in tow.
June began petting the Tiger feeling its fur which made him feel good. The Tiger, however, was feeling anything but, because when June started petting him he began to feel bloodlust leaking out of the woman behind him.
When the Tiger subtly tried to move his head away the bloodlust increased, so he was stuck in a lose-lose situation. Either he lets June pet its head which angers the woman to no end, or he can try and stop June from petting his head which might lead to his death!
As the Tiger was tearing up from frustration wanting to cry, June relieved him of his suffering taking his hand away from the Tiger's head.
He looked at the Dwarf then at Aurelia with a question mark above his head wondering why she didn't kill it.
"We can question it for information!" Aurelia said.
"You are right. I didn't think about that" the thought slipped June's mind, because in Rise of Kings they were just Monster's who attacked any intruder, and you could not communicate with them, but during the fight earlier he heard them speaking to each other in Dwarvish, so maybe he can ask it if it knows anything.
"Okay, wake him up then and let's ask it some questions. Cast the Translation spell on me first." He said to Aurelia to which she nodded and complied.
She quickly cast the spell on him before smacking the Duergar in the back of the head causing him to wake up with a groan.