"OPEN FIRE DAMMIT!"

The rather clumsy and uncoordinated attack left more time to react than what the White Hand perhaps ideally would have given them. While a lot of the Night Elves in the back had scattered to move behind walls and support beams to gain cover from the shooters above, it did not matter much however as most of the gun barrels seemed to be trained at the largest target; Serphia, as well as Rithrynn and Vashi who were standing at her sides.

Rithrynn, who had already prepared her bow and arrow, quickly aimed it and fired off a rapid shot at the chevaliers above! The arrow zoomed through the air towards the head of the chevalier on the furthest left and hit straight in his mask, right between his visors! Fortunately for the man, he escaped the near death experience as his steel mask was enough to stop the powerful arrow as it bounced off him, leaving a dent in between his eyes; but not without violently knocking his head backwards as he stumbled into the wall behind, accidentally discharging his rifle!

Vashi was next to act, rushing in front of her mistress, Serphia, as well as Rithrynn, before conjuring a magical barrier between them and the group of chevaliers. As the remaining two shooters fired off their muskets, the bullets dissipated and lost all momentum as they passed through the barrier, the lead bullets merely plonking down on the barrack floor! The battle mage however launched a vicious fireball towards the group, which exploded as it crashed into Vashi's barrier, destroying it and launching sparks and fiery tendrils in every direction!

While all of this was going on, Serphia had thrust one of her swords into the wooden beam next to her before she motioned to the Sentinel standing behind her to give her her spear. Holding it in one hand above her shoulder, she pulled the spear behind her while stepping forward before violently throwing the spear through the fiery inferno left behind by the combination of Vashi's barrier and the battlemage's fireball! The spear flew up to the second level, biting off a chunk of wood as it glanced the banister; before going straight up into the upper belly of the battlemage, a good portion of the spear tip chewing through his armor to penetrate his ribcage as he was thrown back!

"I think you severely overestimated their defenses." Serphia commented to Sharon as she marched forward through the hall with long step, picking up her sword which she had buried into one of the nearby wooden beams. Up above, the remaining chevaliers had all sought cover from the arrows from the rest of the sentinels that now peppered the banister; either to reload their cumbersome flintlock firearms or to see to their wounded comrades.

Walking into the corridor that Sharon had pointed at, the rest of the group followed shortly behind their captain, Rithrynn and Vashi still sticking close to Serphia. 

"What was the point of that climb if we're simply going back down again?" Came a slight complaint from Rithrynn as they spotted a door leading down to a staircase.

"Unless you intended to get that little beardling to blow us into the core of this reef, then the climb was necessary." Serphia was quick to answer, kicking in the door only to stare down into a long drop through a deep shaft no less than seventy feet straight down, with only a small staircase no more than three feet wide built into the wall leading in a spiral down to the bottom! Taking a step closer to the edge, Serphia threw Sharon an odd look.

"Did you say something about 'safety'?"