"Hold tight," the driver says curtly.

Then she takes off. The horse is a construct and goes at up to about a fifth of a mile each moment, depending on how open the streets are. Its driver does not appear to believe in things like "speed limits" or "unwise acceleration." She has somewhere to Be and intends to Be there, really, really fast.

This is in fact faster than Arazni's Phantom Steeds but not by so much she has no basis for comparison. She will hold tight. She's ludicrously strong.

If she holds too tight that might cause problems due to putting too much pressure on Morgan's armor, but she knows how to hold tight to people who aren't completely indestructible, right?

Yep, comes up frequently enough. Most people are squishier than Iomedae.

It's not a very long ride, though it is an exceedingly fast one. The very fast not horse pulls up next to a small hovering horseless carriage; the windows are very small made of something that looks like glass and the outside is armored. Ilderia, a Century acting as driver, and a super Iomedae doesn't recognize are inside it.

Ilderia looks older than she did yesterday.

Iomedae looks the same as she did yesterday, but it's not her men dying out there. She - nods, through the glass.

"Good work," she says, clearly including both Iomedae and Morgan in that. And then just to Iomedae - "Century says you killed Count Heavyhand with a rifle?"

(The other knight is male, young, wearing armor that looks more like Ilderia's than Iomedae's, and will open the door for Iomedae.)

Morgan is pleased (though her facial expression doesn't change) and she'll cock her head and zoom off.

“It certainly looked like it. I would have expected from how Evil he was that you’d need three third circle paladins but it might be that guns are just much better than anything my world has.”

"He was the third toughest they have. Normal bullets bounce off his skin." She manages a grin, though it's still under her helmet so the effect may not be immediately apparent. "Come in, we're going hunting."

They have THREE demon lords???

She gets in. “Will conversation be too distracting.”

"No."

"I was the target of a very impressive explosion very shortly after we first spoke. Did you...anticipate that."

"Not that fast. I'd told Century that you should shift positions once the conversation was over." And the Tyrant fired the moment his interpretation of the truce expired, instead of waiting.

It is not an impossible kind of communication failure. She tries to calculate whether the Tyrant in fact left her enough time to flee, if she’d known she should be. ….with Haste up, yes, she could’ve gotten out.

“Warned, I can usually survive that kind of thing. Not warned - I got lucky.”

"My failure, then. I apologize." She would rather apologize to the dead people, but they're dead.

"The Tyrant rarely spends missiles that size, they're expensive. He thought you were a threat."

"Seems correct. I don't like him much, from what I've seen. Though the buildings are lovely and food seems shockingly inexpensive."

"Novapest's not rich." She pauses. "Technology in your world is - swords, bows, steel armor, horses?"

"Yes. - Azlant had wonders but Azlant was destroyed."

"Earth hasn't been yet. - How did you kill Heavyhand?"

"Aroden grants me the power to smite Evil people, after which my blows will surpass all their resistance to injury, and to give my weapon the guidance of a spirit of Heaven, to make my aim better. It is a very powerful ability even at home and guns seem to improve it further. I exhaust His gifts if I use them too much, but I can smite four people a day, and might be able to do more in an emergency, I've never tried."

"Good."

Ilderia has not explicitly said "our plan is that we wait for a miracle to save us because there is no hope left other than truly extraordinary luck" but that was in fact their plan, starting yesterday evening.

"Does this let you ignore metal armor, power-created armor, walls, fast healing or hitting nonlethal areas?"

Iomedae is accustomed to operating in a context where 'go as far as your strength can take you and hope you've closed enough of the gap a miracle can close the rest' is a completely valid plan! She got the sense it was the one at work here and that doesn't really bother her!

"It improves my aim such that I can usually land a hit despite armor, but won't make a bullet go through armor if bullets simply can't go through that armor even with a perfect shot. It bypasses some of the kinds of regeneration I'm familiar with but not all of them; I may be able to flexibly bypass some other kinds if advised of them. I can kill someone by shooting their foot or wings. I can only smite targets I can see, but if a bullet can travel through a wall successfully then I would be able to smite someone when I saw them and then later kill them through a wall."