For the most part, Morkus wasn't have that hard a time. Attacking places was nothing new to him after all that time he spent with his old warband. And with his exceptional physical prowess, he cut through the defenders like a hot knife through butter. Soon enough, Morkus reached his 1st house and kicked down its door to begin his search for occupants to kill. Morkus didn't have to search for long. He quickly found a swordsman standing ready to defend his family, with his wife acting as the last line of defense should her husband fall.

Weapons drawn, Morkus charged forwards, jumped into the air, and brought his swords down on the swordsman, who blocked Morkus' blades with his own. Morkus attempted to knee the swordsman in the groin with bone breaking force while he was distracted, but the swordsman had anticipated this. Instead of causing the swordsman debilitating pain, a steel groin guard rendered the underhanded tactic useless

Seizing the opportunity, the swordsman pushed Morkus away and then charged forwards in an attempt to skewer the orc. Morkus deflected the blade and ducked the sucker punch the swordsman attempted before preemptively rolling away from any counter attack Morkus might have made otherwise.

Now understandably bothered by this turn of events, Morkus began to slash at the swordsman from all possible directions. The swordsman stood his ground and blocked all incoming blows like they were nothing.

Noticing an opening as Morkus' slashing frenzy ended, the swordsman began a slashing frenzy of his own. However, Morkus was just as good at blocking as the swordsman.

Upon noticing a subtle opening, Morkus moved in for a decapitating blow. But the swordsman reacted quickly enough to duck Morkus' blades and slash at the orc's stomach. Morkus managed to move away quickly enough to avoid the blade though.

Capitalizing on Morkus' backwards motion, the swordsman advanced on the orc, the 2 continuing to trade blows as they moved about the room. A few rounds later, the swordsman made a face like he had just thought of something and began to prioritize pushing Morkus back. Lacking the intelligence necessary to decipher facial expression meanings or detect unexpected traps while focusing on combat, Morkus took the bait and backed up until he was struck on the back of the head by a blunt object and sent sprawling onto the floor.

The blow Morkus had received made the sound in his head even louder than usual. He even thought he could make out a voice, but he couldn't make out what it was saying if that was indeed a voice. When he got up, the swordsman and his family were gone. Morkus searched the entire room, but they were nowhere to be found. "Must have run off" Morkus said to himself as he left the house, not once thinking that he should also check the other rooms.