The guardsman staggered back, he was green but he wasn't going to let some monster walk up his sword. Anger cleared his mind in a refreshing way. The spite it had shown his captain would have drove him to lash out if he wasn't having a hard time standing up. Before he could even pull his sword arm back and make a swing at the monster bearing down at him it was upon him. He yelped and tried to leap backwards, but Soah's strike landed across his face. His sight was all at once red and his mind scattered by pain. A sickening warmth ran across his face and his extremities immediately felt cold. The guard was staggered back and he fell with a tremendous thump and rattle of his chain to the ground. He writhed there, hands flying to his mangled face. Before the fight could progress, newly summoned guards arrived, bearing crossbows and spears at the report of 'By all the fucking gods get to the docks.' The men at the front knelt down and fired their volley of bolts immediately in the general direction of the monstrous looking man standing by a butchered guard and a screaming one. The other set turned away the lightly armed Arcarti sailors and prepared spears in the event that crossbows weren't enough to detain whatever it was that had sent a soldier of the guard in utter hysterics to the barracks.