Janius saw the opportunity as Meesei presented it. It was creative, but no less effective. With braver strides, Janius advanced, sidestepped, and chopped at a target in the fog. The swordsman that Janius had fended off earlier was all of a sudden too beleaguered to effectively parry and took the full force of Janius' strike on his shield. Given the chaos that was ensuing, the swordsman desperately tried to defend himself, but had his shield shoved to one side by Janius' before he felt Janius' axe bite into his leg. Quickly following up, Janius cut the back of the swordsman's neck and pushed him to the ground with a kick. There was no time to give him a quicker death before he moved onto the next mercenaries; another moderately armoured spearman, Bosmer this time, and a heavy Redguard hefting a claymore up as his faculties started to return.

The spearman grinned at Janius menacingly as a fiery spell glowed in his off-hand. Janius realised this just quickly enough to cast a ward out in front of him, but the spearman's magic was stronger than he expected and a single explosive fireball shattered the ward instantly. Janius stumbled backwards and tried to regain his balance. The Bosmer might have expected to kill him with that spell, so he might just have used up all his magicka attempting it. Might have.