Jing quickly made his way to the Snake Queen preventing her from taking more shots at the rest of the group. As he drew close the Queen drew a set of [url=https://i.pinimg.com/originals/a8/39/1b/a8391b0aa54b9cd7394748e981e3ddc7.jpg]twin curved blades[/url] and the two locked in combat. The queen was fast pressing the attack from the start and putting Jing on the defensive. But luckily thanks to Nanami's enchantments Jing was able to keep up with the Snake Queen although he was being pressed back. But Jing was playing the waiting game knowing the Queen would soon wear herself out or at least that was what he was counting on. He continued on the defensive until he was backed almost off the edge of the throne pedestal where he lashed out with a powerful slash pushing the Snake Queen back although she was able to parry the blow itself without taking any real damage herself. Jing did not wait for the Snake to regain the upper hand and pressed the attack following up with a series of quick jabs keeping his distance and forcing the queen to exert more energy. After Jing's final jab the queen didn't wait knocking aside his blade and lunging forward getting inside the reach of his weapon. But before the Queen could strike the tide of battle changed. Jing smiled and let out a small breath fogging up as it left his mouth. The temperature in the room sharply fell almost instantly as Sybille finished her spell. The Queen slowed and Jing abandoned his weapon with a light jump back while drawing his short sword to continue the fight. Jing easily blocked the Snakes advances with his single blade as her movements continued to slow in the cold. It wasn't long until the Snake couldn't keep up with Jing who not only began to press the attack but was winning the fight being able to land blows cutting into the Snake Queen's skin. With the battle now in his favor Jing knew not to drag out the fight, even though he was winning his age was getting to him and Jing was starting to tire. After one good push to create distance Jing recovered his Glave and with a single strike as he picked up the weapon he was able to cleave the snake in two. After the snake fell her upper body began to flail unwilling to give up. Jing quickly plunged his Weapon into her skull and the snake fell limp. He then turned to see how the rest of the irregulars were faring with the remaining Snakemen. Sybille's spell and the queens death had all but destroyed he snakemen's moral allowing them to easily be finished off by the rest of the irregulars. ------------ (At the same time as above) Gwen came up to Pox with a disappointed look on her face. "Was it really that hard to just dodge?" She asked sounding annoyed as she knelt down beside him with two balls of green aura forming in her palms. As she reached down pressing the balls of light onto the wound Pox would feel a lot of discomfort as Gwen accelerated his body's healing basically stitching his innards back together. Pox would know that she could of made the process soothing, but instead she was making him feel what she was doing, probably as punishment for taking such an injury. Once Pox's lung and other internals were patched up Gwen pulled back taking a deep purple liquid with her. "There you won't die now, and you should still be able to function as a healer. But stay behind our fighters We can't afford to have you injured like this." She said as she got up to look over the rest of the battle. She had made sure to take away any life threatening part to the injury as well as pull out the Venom that would have coated the arrowhead. But the gel filled wound remained probably as a lesson for him to remember. After Alm knocked the first entering snakeman down he quickly readied himself as a second snakeman didn't give him the time to finish off the first. Alm quickly knocked aside the Snakeman's blade with his own before moving to try and counter strike. But the first snakeman had had its time to recover and charged Alm with its counterpart. The snakemen were successfully working together attacking in turns not allowing Alm to act on either of them. Knowing this method would only wear himself out Alm took a risk. The next strike came Alm only deflected the blow enough to avoid any serious damage but still took a slash to his side as he moved forward letting go of his weapon with one hand delivering a strong punch to the snakeman's jaw while still using his weapon to block the following attack from the second Snamkeman locking its blade with his own. With their rotation disrupted Alm took the opening he had made, he quickly returned his grip to his weapon and flicked the snakeman's sword from its hand. After that it was a simple matter to behead the creature and turn his attention to the other snakeman who was still recovering. It was then that Sybille's spell went into action as the temperature dropped Alm charged, and as expected the Snakeman's reaction was slower than normal allowing Alm to quickly finish it off. And as the Snake Queen herself fell the remaining Snakemen either retreated or were slain by the other irregulars. ------------ (after the battle) With the Snakemen broken and retreating the battle would quickly be over finally giving the irregulars a moment to breath. It wasn't long before Jenramo walked back into the room covered in blood (no one really sure if it was his or the snakemen's) and with a big grin on his face and as par for him any wounds he might of taken had been healed by his sword. Allant spent his moments of silence starting to remove the cores of the monsters so they could be divided up by Jing when this was all over. Sybille made her way to one of the walls and plopped down for a rest as the spell had drained her. Shion and Stephan started to check the bodies of the snakemen for anything of value that would be worth taking. Gwen from to member to member checking for injuries and healing anything that was serious, but always left a part of the wound like she did with Pox to teach them a lesson. Jing sat on the ledge of the throne pedestal watching the others thinking over the battle and its outcome. And once the "loot" was collected Gwen looked everything over and found out that there had been two relic items among the Snake Queen's gear. First was her [url=https://i.pinimg.com/736x/69/47/26/694726b2f648a989b1fda49b4ae0677e--martial-arts-weapons-quiz.jpg]Long Bow[/url] which Gwen explained the queen was using wrong before demonstrating that if you flowed a little of your own magic through the weapon it could fire arrows made of magic not requiring any physical arrows. The choice was quick to give the bow to Shion, but his lack in magical aptitude forced him to pass on the bow. Then Gwen decided to give the bow to Octavia knowing with a little practice the young girl could easily master the weapon. The second piece of relic equipment was the Queen's [url=https://www.medievalcollectables.com/images/PRODUCT/large/DK5009_2_.png]Breastplate[/url] And although it was made of a light leather like material the armor was stronger than steel, and still allowed the wearer to move around without restriction to their movement, in fact it seemed the armor gave its wearer a boost to their speed (probably why Jing was forced on the defensive at the start of the fight). Jing quickly decided the armor was going to Nanami and wasn't going to hear any argument otherwise. The rest of the gear and Soulstones were divided up quickly and Jing gave everyone a bit of time to rest before they would make their way back out into the desert and make tier way back to human civilization. After deciding to take one of the Queen's swords for himself, Alm took this time to to go and study the room. It was amazing how much of the artwork was still in tact. making his way around and any type of pictographs or writing he found he tried to roughly copy into a notebook he kept in his pack with hope to one day find someone who could decipher their meaning. When he had copied everything he could from the walls he made is way to a nearby rock and sat down still looking and studying the walls. "[color=00aeef][b]Who would of guessed we would of stumbled across a piece of the old world that was left so intact and preserved.[/b][/color]" he said to himself out loud, "[color=00aeef][b]Now I wonder if this place holds a secret to bring humanity back to greatness like Sir Darkwing had said in his journal.[/b][/color]" Alm continued posing the question to anyone who was listening.