After the festival Laurana was informed that Jin was looking for her. She found him in the dueling pit of Jhelom, and was given her next task. She was to kill several creatures using only the axe that Jin had given her. This task worried her, because she would not be allowed to use her shield and she was not used to fighting without it. She hefted the axe and repeated Jin's words to herself, "You must be adaptable"... she would prove that she was able to handle this challenge, and all the others he could come up with. She was not familiar with one of the creatures that Jin had specified, a Betrayer, so he took her to find one. After a lengthy battle she finally defeated it.
She set off in search of her next creature, a blood elemental. She had killed many before, but never without a shield and wondered how well she would fare without it now. It did not prove too difficult.
The next opponent was to be an Evil Mage Lord. "This should be easy" she said to herself as she set off for the island.
Next was a Dragon, which was also rather easy for her to defeat once she managed to find one amongst the dead from other hunters.
The White Wyrm managed to put up a fight before she managed to kill it.
The Ogre Lord fell quickly to the axe.
With these rather minor creatures out of the way, she could concentrate on the difficult ones. She started with the Lich Lord. After a long, and close, battle she managed to defeat him.
Next she decided to go after the Devourer of Souls, since she was in the area where they were known to spawn anyway. This proved to be an even harder fight then she would have thought. Without the shield she was forced to lead him to a less populated area of the dungeon to kill him, and even then it proved a very difficult fight.
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Next on the list was a Chaos Dragoon Elite, another creature she had never fought before. By now she was growing more confident in her ability to handle the axe, and barely missed her shield. She managed to find one of the Chaos Dragoon Elites near the city of Mistas, but he had a friend nearby, a paragon Juka Warrior. Luckily the Dragoon did not prove too difficult, and she was able to kill both with relative ease.
Now for the true test, the last creature of the night she would face. A Skeletal Dragon. This proved to be the most challenging test she had encountered. She had to get it alone, without leaving any corpses nearby for the creature to animate. She finally managed to get him near the entrance to the cave he lived in, and slowly beat him down.