As the battlefield is spattered with a rain of sparkling and oily liquid, infecting Krys and Kinu with a grim nausea, a large crossbow appears at another upper window. The Bez, having dodged the toxic stream of the Commander and shifted to a lower floor, returns fire with a vengeance. A crackling arrow of energy rockets out of the building and slams into the prone Commander.

- Toxic Commander takes 36 DMG and spends ENR to resist a status effect.

She then shifts her focus and targets the Brute Wrangler, definitely hurt from Krys' attacks early and fires a conventional bolt that nails it squarely in the head and it falls back into the putrid mud with a splash, dead.

- Brute Wrangler (Wagner) takes 33 DMG and is dead.

The Toxic Commander rears upward, pulling the sparking bolt from his molten body and surveys the devastation and fallen bodies of his comrades. He lets out a wail of sadness and rage as the squat creature falls dead in front of him.

"Yer'll all pay for this ya murderers!" he chatters, his body mired in the thick mud - unable to move until he can drag himself clear of it. He points at Kinu, "You! Yer'll be first! Yer talkin' 'bout yer strength and might makin' right!? Well dere's power in this place, power given to me by tha' Viceroy. Even if it kills me, I'm gonna take ya down!" he roars. Krys gets that sense of something within this place, the power of Khazan itself, surging through the monstrous figure, but far greater than before.

His eyes momentarily blaze with a burst of light and his skin ripples and surges as whatever force that is host here moves through him. For an instant, the corroded and wasted away remains of his skeleton is illuminated. In the distance, emanating from the top of the Great Tree, there is something akin to a far distant crack of thunder that echoes throughout the city.

The Commander thrusts his hand forward and once more the tentacles of foul smelling ooze blast out from his fingers. These thick ropes of fleshy ooze had previously crushed a car like a tin can and now those frighteningly strong appendages were empowered far beyond that level and are winging their way towards Kinu with the intention to snuff out her life.

- Kinu you have Defensive Options to to resolve, please report to the Combat Notation Thread.

Krys feels the energy surging out of the Commander, draining him to the last, the great power of Khazan taking everything he has with it.