[He's so glad they have air support, has he mentioned that? Because he really is. If anything comes at them from the top of the stairs, they've got dragons to take it out.
Gan Ning keeps pace with Gaius the whole way, reserving his power and doing his best to just run right past any nightmare soldiers of any ilk that try to leap at them from the shoulders of the mountain. It seems like a good tactic up until they near the top and he glances up. There's something much larger standing at the very top of the staircase. Taller, broader, and carrying a scythe almost twice its own size.]
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Gan Ning keeps pace with Gaius the whole way, reserving his power and doing his best to just run right past any nightmare soldiers of any ilk that try to leap at them from the shoulders of the mountain. It seems like a good tactic up until they near the top and he glances up. There's something much larger standing at the very top of the staircase. Taller, broader, and carrying a scythe almost twice its own size.]
...oh hell no...