"Heh," Evian let out, "Of course you came. Pervert like you, I knew you'd not be able to stay away."
Zayda chuckled while shaking her head slowly,
"I almost did. You were quite convincing in telling me not to intrude but then I thought, on what grounds should I give heed to your wants? I thought 'Since when have I tried not to be intrusive while I watched a couple of horny fuckers get it on."
"Haha, Well, see you being all vulgar, Commander," Evian said with amusement.
"What would you have done if I had actually stayed away? The power I can feel from her-- You could not have taken her on your own."
'I planned to engage her as much as I could, get as much information out of her as I possibly could before testing my strength against her. If she proved too difficult to handle, I'd simply use Wraithic Phasing to Escape.
She doesn't know I have that card and although risky I can't just run away. It's the first time I'd face another person who was capable of using Eldritch energy so it's certainly an opportunity.'
Evian said all this in his head but of course, said none of it out loud and rather chuckled,
"I'd have managed. But I'm glad you're here."
"Don't be. For all I know, I might have to fight the two of you," Zayda said with a frown.
Although it took her getting very close for Evian and Karenssa to sense her presence her senses, more powerful than either of the two and especially strained to eavesdrop on what she thought would be sounds of pleasure, picked up conversations that appeared to confirm what she already suspected.
Zayda was jolted out of her thoughts when Evian's hand landed on her shoulder and it managed to provide her with a strange emotional warmth even before his ensnaring voice left his delectable lips,
"You don't have to worry, Zayda, I am on your side."
"Keke, How sweet!" Karenssa said and after dropping her arms, she let loose a powerful wave of cold aura thick with Eldritch energy impurely mixed with Spiritual energy but of course, Zayda felt it as the opposite,
"'You abomination! To think you would dare mix sacred Spiritual energy with something so deathly and unnatural' is what those nuts at the Arcane Temple would say and I agree with them.
You can't be allowed to live."
Zayda took on an attacking stance but Karenssa just threw back her head to laugh,
"You can't stop me!"
Her talons (Too long and much too sinister and vulture-looking to be tagged as Claws) extended from the tip of her ten fingers.
*Whoosh*
*Splash*
*Splatter*
Finally, the reason for his ease and the sole reason he was 'happy'...
[52 Quasi-Eldritch Essence Absorbed]
... Was that, although little in the scheme of things, he was heading closer to his target goal and eventual breakthrough.
It was why he had not yet left even though he could have.
By using Karenssa's Monster creation to his advantage, he might have an unlimited amount of Quasi-Eldritch essence to absorb which in the long run could empower him enough to put up a fight against her and not rely on retreat or external support to survive. And even if the numbers he would have to crush for that to happen was daunting, Evian was feeling very optimistic.
"Well, now that we are alone," Karenssa said and suddenly she was behind Evian. So fast and so sneaky that he had not even sensed her.
The Beasts stayed away from them because they recognized her as their master and as the Eldritch Baroness pressed her perky and full breasts into Evian's back, she stretched out her tongue and licked him, her entire body shaking from the pleasure it gave her.
Evian felt annoyed by the unwelcome touch and the unsolicited lick but he remained calm, knowing full well that he had Karenssa letting down her guard around him because he was weaker and because she still desired him.
"Let's move somewhere else shall we?" Karenssa asked and before Evian could say anything whether in resistance to begrudging acceptance, he felt himself get dragged away and headed toward the Portal.
"No," Zayda called out when she saw this.
*Bang*
She avoided getting struck by her opponent and as the blow cracked the ground where she had stood only seconds before,
Zayda let out her Pressure and coated her leg with her Spiritual energy, letting loose a kick that forced the Beast aside with a good bit of broken bones,
"Step aside, you moronic meathead," she said with annoyed urgency but it was already too late...
... Evian and Karenssa had already passed through the portal.
"Damn it," Zayda said and her eyes widened in realization of a coming blow which she again, gracefully evaded.
"STOP RUNNING!" the Beast yelled, annoyed.
"And you stop yelling, you loggerhead," Zayda said in a taunt, "I've hit you much more than you've hit me.
And I'm about to hit you more. First I'll kill you and then I'll enter that portal and kill that bitch of a Master you have!"
"HAHAHAHA... FOOLISH HUMAN! You can't pass through that portal and even if you could, do you know what will await you?
An Alternate dimension of absolute Eldritch thrill... A Region devoid of Spiritual energy or the despicable hot rays or brilliant light of the sun.
In that world, you will have no Power and are at the complete mercy of its Master, My Lady, the Eldritch Witch, Karenssa Lockhorn!"