It seemed the ritual wasn't quite as... ritualistic... as had initially been believed. In fact, upon closer inspection, it looked very much like a ritual wasn't taking place in that room at all. Perhaps elsewhere in the castle, then. However events panned out, Nuva's initial strike had been very successful, one of the wheelmen being taken apart by his attack, whilst the other's axe cracked against the chain of his armour: a heavy enough blow to stagger him and draw his attention, but nothing like enough to cause real damage beyond what would perhaps be a bruise later on, near-black against his already quite dark skin. That said, the man was aiming to bring another blow down upon him, and as Nuva looked past him, it seemed one of his crossbow-wielding friends was aiming to shoot at the Dark Skayleigh past the axe-bearer, and would surely take the shot if the axeman simply died to Nuva's spike. So how, he wondered momentarily, does one take out two birds with one stone?

The answer, of course, is to strike one bird so that it crashes into and brings down the other with it. Codified, in this case, by Nuva bringing his arm-spike round like a club, crashing it into the axe-wielder's gut on the (admittedly spike-covered, though more like knobs from that angle) curve rather than the point, then spinning just a bit further and, propelled by a burst of Khala, using the spike to launch the unfortunate man toward the crossbow bearer, akin to a catapult launching a stone into a castle's wall. With any luck, such a maneuver would keep Nuva behind the closer of the foes as much as possible to avoid being shot at within the short period of execution, whilst also providing a suitably-disabling attack that would let others kill them in their daze, or otherwise ensure they could not continue to threaten anyone else, and allow the half-giant himself to handle some of the other threats in the room more cleanly.