At the last moment before he was hit, he managed to crawl to the side and get up on his legs as he attacked the dwarven Slayer once more. With the Excalibur in his right hand, he slashed at the Slayer Gotrik Gurnisson, narrowly missing the dwarf's mohawk, as the dwarven Slayer agilely dodged the strike.
During the entire set of exchanges that followed afterward, Valkorion felt that the Sequence 7 Warrior Potion was already on the verge of being digested as his Physical Strength was rising steadily a bit, and his Combat Proficiency was getting the final boosts.
Suddenly, as he clashed against the twin war axes of the Gotrik Gurnisson, he felt that the Potion was wholly digested and that he could now advance to the Sequence 6 Beast Knight once he finished the fight against the Slayer.
In the end, because he was getting more and more tired with each passed exchange and his arms were becoming a bit numb from all of the force of the strikes from the Slayer Gotrik Gurnisson, as with the final one, he felt one of the waraxes to breach his defense and appear near his neck.
With that being done, Valkorion yielded the fight, as he lost, but he was rather satisfied with him very much.
He achieved far more than he initially anticipated, managed to digest the Sequence 7 Warrior Potion completely, and was ready for further advancement. He also managed to fight the Slayer of the Slayer Cult for more than half an hour, which was an achievement that not many could tell.
Even though most was due to the fact that the Gotrik Gurnisson was holding back and was fighting him on equal grounds, even that was rather a steep achievement because not many could fight against the Slayers even with the same level of mastery over the martial arts.
"That was a good fight, laddie... you'r pretty skilled with the sword."
The Slayer Gotrik Gurnisson stated as he walked away to the exit of the Grand Volantene Arena, because neither of them had any interest to continue in the fighting within the Grand Volantene Arena.
Even the dwarven Slayer, this wasn't the first fight, and after fighting in the good fight, he wasn't really interested in fighting against the next opponents. In the end, the second Bracket wasn't really that interesting right now.
Most of the contests that were Low-Sequence Beyonders and even some of the Mid-Sequence Beyonders couldn't match members of the Slayer Cult in the aspect of the martial skills, so after fighting in the few matches, Gotrik Gurnisson was rather tired from it.
He had to admit that most of the matches were rather boring.
"Such a high praise coming from the member of the Slayer Cult."
Valkorion knew that the Slayers of the Slayer Cult rarely praised others, especially when it came to their martial skills, so receiving praise from the Slayer of the Slayer Cult was a certain degree of honor.
"Also, it is rather rare to see members of the Slayer Cult on the surface world. Most of you would be fighting in the Underground Kingdoms against the Skavenblight and other monsters dwelling in the dark."
The Valyrian hybrid stated as they walked out from the Volantene Grand Arena as Valkorion was really curious about the presence of the Slayer. From the books, he learned that the members of the Slayer Cult rarely ventured into two places in the world.
Valyrian Freehold and Seven Kingdoms of the Westeros.
Albeit for the different reasons.
Within the Valyrian Freehold, the place, while having some worthy foes of slaying, was mostly taken care of by the Valyrian Legions or the powerful Beyonders from the Noble Families and Dragonlord Houses.
Westeros on the other hand, didn't have many Extraordinary Creatures or monsters, and those who were located within Westeros were, generally speaking, either killed by some of the Churchers or the Churches themselves forbade their hunting, because they wanted for the Extraordinary Creatures and monsters to breed to have access to the stable source of the Extraordinary Ingredients.
The density of the Spiritrons was several times higher in the Essos and other continents compared to the Westeros, making the environment far more suitable for the monsters and extraordinary creatures within those places.
"Searching for the worthy prey to slay, of course! There were rumors of several trolls across the roads to the shores. I've been trailing them for many weeks already."
Valkorion didn't know that there were trolls somewhere around here, so hearing that, he found it explainable that it attracted the attention of the Slayer from the Slayer Cult. At the same time, though, he had already started scheming in his head.
It would be rather good to invite the dwarf into their party to join them on the Orange Shore.
The Undead Asylum Catacombs would surely be a really good challenge for the Slayer, and their party with Mellisandre would obtain one really good heavy hitter, which they desperately needed right now.
And because Gotrik Gurnisson was a member of the Slayer cult, he wouldn't care a shit about the Red Temple or the Church of the Dragon Gods or anything even remotely connected to it, as the Slayers cared only for slaying the more powerful enemies.
"Then I may have knowledge about something that would be certainly worthy of the attention of the Slayer. Actually, it is a place where I am currently heading to together with my companion."
Valkorion carefully said as he wanted to tempt the Gotrik Gurnisson to join them in their mad quest because he really felt that the addition of the dwarven Slayer in their crazy attempt to enter the secondary Headquarters of the Chaosflame Covenant of the Izalith within the former Firelink Shrine would do them only good.
"What's yar talking about laddie? Consider me interested. Truth ya be told, those fuckin trolls are that good at evading!"
Gotrik Gurnisson had been pursuing the group of three trolls for several weeks already, but those dumbheads were actually pretty good at hiding. It was rather surprising truth to be told, and certainly, some part of him was already loosing the interest in the trolls.
Not to mention, he already slayed a good number of Trolls, even though the Trolls were at least Sequence 6 Extraordinary Creature, but they could be brought down even by non-Beyonders rather easily because the Trolls were not really the smartest ones around.
Most of them were as dumb as they could get. Due to this, even the non-Beyonders, if they were well-trained and prepared enough, were able to slay trolls easily. While dealing with the trolls was really problematic because of their unnatural physical strength, tremendous regeneration, and other capabilities, their mind were really holding them back.
As the trolls were not particularly intelligent, they acted solely on their instincts or based on their experiences. If the troll was just strong, but not experienced enough, then it would be even easier to slay them.
"Orange Shores, ruins of some old faction, that is full of the Undeads. Rather powerful ones from the information provided to me by my companion, some of them should be around Sequence 7 Extraordinary Creatures."
Valkorion stated carefully, as he wanted to hook up the dwarven Slayer to join them out of his free will.