The two heavily armed knights barely have time to walk into the arena, as Amroth casts his lightning almost immediately. While it doesn't hit them, it's a partial succes, the dust at their feet is blown into their faces, and Ishar uses it to their advantage: he jumps in to disarm one of the knights, smacking down on his weapon-hand. The direwolf attacks the other one, but the second knight noticed his pal's mistake, and dodges the direwolf, although barely.
This gives Amroth an excellent opportunity to blast the second knight on the back with his lightning. Electricity sparkles around the knight as he falls to the ground. He is not dead, but definitely knocked down. Ishar's training definitely paid off, he dominates his opponent, not allowing him to recover his weapon. Despite the excellent armor, Ishar's attacks start to take their toll after a while, and the knight fails to notice the direwolf approaching from behind. The wolf grabs the helmet in its jaw, and completely cracks it, with the knight's head still inside. Ishar calmly walks to the second knight - still lying on the floor - and stabs him through an armor joint. The fight is won, and no gladiator was hurt in any way.
500 gold, plus 100 for the wolf's critical kill.
The direwolfs charge the gladiators immediately, but Mog welcomes them with a flmathrower. The beasts are definitely hurt, and even slow down for a moment. Cadmus uses this opportunity to shoot one of them in the leg, and Medea knocks the other one over with an ice ball. Mog sneaks in a firebolt before the injured direwolf reaches Dog. The injured beast fails to use its obvious size and strenght advantage against the much smaller wolf, trips and falls to the ground. Dog bites at its throat and holds on tight, but fails to do any immediate damage. Cadmus takes a shot at the direwolf that Medea flattened, but the cunning animal evades it, and rushes at Cadmus. Medea tries to freeze it in motion, but fails, and Cadmus is knocked to the ground under the weight of the enormous direwolf.
If ice doesn't work, Mog is always there to provide fire, and casts enflame on the direwolf's fur coat. It is successful in the sense that the beast combusts, and ultimately collapses on Cadmus, who suffers severe burns. The team turns their attention to Dog, who somehow managed to bite through the thoat of his opponent. Both of the beasts are down, the team wins.
You gain 300 gold. Cadmus is injured (not the first time...), and I need to add: you had incredible luck with the wolf vs direwolf thing. Even with the war training, that should not have happened.
Tyd tries to open the fight with his trademark headshot special, but the clever little green bastards expected this, and neither of them is hit. They try to storm the kobold together, but Ettad stands in their way. The human might not be the best fighter in the arena (at least definitely not yet), but he outclasses any goblin by far. He kicks one of the greenskins on the chest, and as the helpless enemy tries to get back up, he buries his axe in the goblin's shoulder, incapacitating it. The other two goblins try to flank him, and one of them spears Ettad in the leg, as the human only manages to block the other attack with his shield. Tyd shoots the goblin with the head injury, and Ettad breaks the spear stuck in his leg, and the spearhead falls out from the wound, onto the floor.
That leaves one of the goblins dead, one of them left with a stick for a weapon, and only one of them completely able. ettad is bleeding quite heavily, but the wound itself is not deep. Judging the stick-wielding goblin to be unimportant, Tyd shoots the other one, and the shot gives Ettad a nice window of opportunity to behead the golbin, and he does exactly that. He turns around to face the last goblin, which left him, and choose to attack Tyd instead.
The panicking kobold fires and misses, and the goblin closes the distance between them, and smacks Tyd in the head with his broken spear-shaft. That might not have been enough to harm a strong human like Ettad, but Tyd passes out from the sudden blow. Unfortunetly for the goblin, Ettad reaches it and finishes it off easily.
You gain 150 gold, plus 50 for the beheading. Tyd is injured, and starts the next battle with half HP, or he can sit that one out.
The team knows they overextended themselves a bit with this fight, so they try to use every advantage they have: Medea deep-freezes one of the trolls, and Celeborn shatters it with his first attack. This incredibly lucky start inspires the gladiators, but enrages the other troll: it grabs Celeborn, lifts him from the ground, and tries to shatter his ribcage. Celeborn fails to free himself, and only Thranduil's arrow saves his life: the shot strikes the troll's forehead, and shocks it with a powerful electrical blast. Unfortunately, Celeborn suffers some damage from that, too, so he falls to the ground, barely conscious.
The three tigers try to finish him off, but are blocked by Wraith again. The direwolf smacks one of the tigers in the face, but the other two jump him, and wrestle the beast to the ground.
The copper plating protects him for a short while, this allows Medea to heal Celeborn, and Thranduil to shoot down the tiger that Wraith clawed seconds before.
The recovered Celeborn kicks one of the tigers off Wraith, but the other still tries to finish the direwolf, with little luck: Wraith struggles back on his feet, and manages to put some distance between himself and the pair of cats.
The troll starts to recover from the lightning arrow, but Medea puts it back down with an ice ball. That kind of thing holds it down for a little while though, so the gladiators know they need to finish the tigers quickly. Celeborn does exactly that, by slashing one of them on the side. While this might not have been a killing blow normally, the injured tiger collapses anyway - this was the last straw. Wriath collides with the last tiger, and the two injured beasts roll on the floor together. The team leaves them be, confident in their wolf's abilities, and turn their full attention to the troll.
Thranduil shoots it in the head again, however, the monster manages to stay on its feet again, and tries to grab Celeborn for a second time. The elf is ready for it now, and not only evades, but slashes the troll's wrist, and it starts bleeding heavily. Medea smacks it with an ice ball, and Thranduil finishes it with an arrow to the eye-socket.
As it was expected Wraith killed the tiger, although he is limping, so i seems it wasn't as easy as it normally is. That doesn't matter, since the team ran out of enemies: this makes them the winners of the most difficult arena challenge yet, so they earn some serious bonus gold for that.
You gain 1100 gold, plus 200 for the critical kill at the beginning, and another 200 for having balls of steel, for even
trying something like this. You should be dead, by the way, that deep-freeze probably saved half your team's life.
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