Bab 149: Ashes to Ashes.

Matalan raised his tower shield to soak up the damage from Dave's [Death Descent]. Then he flung Dave away with a smash from his shield and struck at the draugr as he was recovering. But Dave switched armaments from gauntlets to the Sword of Mercy and Falcon shield and used [Block] to stop the Death Knight's attack. He pushed off, using the force of the attack to help power a flip backwards and create distance between himself and Matalan.

The Death Knight shuffled sideways, circling around Dave, looking for an opening. Suddenly he just disappeared in midstep.

Dave looked around for the Death Knight but didn't have the slightest clue where he was.

"Never drop your guard!" the shout came from above. He looked up to see Matalan descending in a headfirst dive his sword in both hands, pointed at Dave's skull.

Dave dove clumsily to the side as the Death Knight struck, cracking the arena floor.

"That was close!"

Dave used [Stampede] to charge at the Death Knight.