Reima picks the girl up and teleports back to Solaire who's surprised at the new addition to their party. "May I inquire on the girls identity?" he asks from his seated position.
Reima shrugs, "Rhea of Thorolund, ex-mber of the way of white... "
Solaire "Do I want to hear how she managed to find herself down here?" He receives a brief answer, "Not unless you want to kill that man called Petrus."
Solaire shakes his head, he'll ask the girl later once they've completed their quest. "Are you going to take her to the sisters or bring her along?" he asks but receives an answer from the person herself, "I wish to accompany my Saviour, I'm well versed in supportive miracles and healing... Please don't leave behind."... Reima rembers two other won saying that exact line, he shrugs, she's undead so maybe the experience will help her beco more confident? Right now she's a inch away from a ntal break down. He's especially worried about her apparent fanaticism for him. "Sure, but rember to let or my friend Solaire here take the front-line... Actually, could you lend her that spare sword?" he asks his friend while pointing at the sword he had lent to him previously.
Solaire nods, "Here you are milady, now everything is prepared for so Jolly cooperation!"
Reima fist bumps Solaire while renewing his Light spell, he lets Rhea have a couple sips of his Estus flask to get her energy up before they start moving deeper into the cavern yet again.
The formation remains relatively the sa, Solaire in front with Havel's shield, Rhea behind him with the spare Silver sword and Reima protecting the flank against anything that may slip past. The first thing they notice however is Rhea's lack of skill while swinging her sword... She'd almost clipped Solaire in the back while they were fighting off the Quadrupedal Giant Humanoid skeletons, unlike the ones wielding weapons these are much more aggressive, charging head first into Solaire, the impact causing him to be dragged backwards, only maintaining the front-line with the help of the legendary shield. This could not be allowed to continue so they taught Rhea how to stab from behind Solaire to assist him, instead of wildly swinging and endangering not only Reima and Solaire, but Herself as well.
However, even if she did injure Solaire it would have been fine due to her ridiculous talent in the healing arts, a small healing miracle usually only heals external damage but in the hands of Rhea it can almost completely heal any wound they might've sustained. Truly she is an excellent edition to their party, if this were in another world where people weren't cursed with immortality she'd probably be hailed as a Prophet of so sort by the church. Her interactions with Solaire are strangely amusing to Reima, the venom laced words she utters when speaking about Lord Gwyn and his spawn almost cause him to laugh out loud. Solaire can only continue to stand there and listen as she accidentally insults him to his face.
Eventually the trio find themselves out of the darkness and standing on a path that's seemingly carved into a mountain, with light being readily available they look over the cliff and see an almost bottomless drop to the floor below.
Reima makes small talk as they keep walking. "Nice view." he says as he observes the distant landscape, funnily enough he thinks he spots Ash lake from here, the lake that holds the EverLasting Dragon that allows you to enter the dragon covenant. "Indeed it is my friend." Solaire adds as Rhea looks on with a single tear running down her face, she honestly never thought she'd see natural sunlight again. The touching mont doesn't last long as they're interrupted, a red figure appearse wielding a strange shield and a giant hamr... Rhea seems to recognise him as she shouts a na in surprise, "Paladin Leeroy!"
Reima asks in surprise, "Jenkins?", Rhea stops him, "No my Lor-Cough, Sir Reima... Leeroy, the church said he went hollow while trying to recover the Writ of Kindling... They must've lied again though." she says bitterly.
The man called Leeroy speaks up, "Halt, I cannot allow you to progress any further. Lord Nito has done nothing to anger Lord Gwyn, why does he seek his death?"
...
Reima "You haven't heard? Gwyn linked the first fla by using his own soul as fuel, we're here on our own volition."
... "I see." Leeroy says as he runs so kind of cloth charm over his hamr, causing it to glow brightly. "Nevertheless, I cannot allow you entry. My honour forbids it."
Reima snorts and starts conjuring a Crystal Soul spear, "Yeah well your honour can go do one douche."
Solaire drops Havel's shield to the side and retrieves the Crystal knight shield from his back while drawing his sword. "Do not listen to my companion, It's an honour to face you Sir Leeroy."
Rhea can only stand there in shock as her two companions imdiately challenge this legend of the church, it is said that Leeroy was the most talented warrior they had ever had... She shakes her head and starts preparing so supportive Miracles, if the history of the church is correct then they might have so trouble.
The paladin roars while charging at them, "LEEEEEROOOOYYYYYYYYY JJJJJJUUUSSTT-" he's cut off after successfully dodging the Crystal Soul spear, Reima casts Aard at the floor below him causing Leeroy to slip... Solaire isn't slow as he plunges his sword into the paladins unprotected neck, instantly killing him...
The group look down at the dropped items, shock, amusent and irritation effecting each of them.
Rhea "H-h-how... This was said to be the most fierce warrior the church had ever produced..."
Solaire "What a shaful display after those arrogant words."
Reima "Pfft, typical Leeroy." he chuckles as he picks up the items he had dropped, a Divinely enchanted great hamr called Grant and a heavily enchanted shield called Sactus. Reima stores grant and gives Sactus to Solaire to swap with his Crystal Knight shield. He suspects the shield will improve his miracles and make him last longer in combat, he'd have to take a closer look at it to confirm that theory though.
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