After ensuring his Runes were spent, and thinking about the area that they were in, Tirek and Blaidd carefully moved out from the area that he found the Grace in, only to find an open area of sorts that seemed to be a festival ground, with the spirits of other warriors waiting for something.
"Champions, welcome!" a voice cried, where Tirek and Blaidd found that it was coming from someone who looked like he was the town crier or jester, given how colorful his attire was, who also carried a thin greatsword of sorts, though his words caused everyone to stop what they were doing and looked up at him, "The stars have aligned! The festival is nigh! General Radahn, mightiest Demigod of the Shattering, awaits you! This is a celebration of war: the Radahn Festival!"
The Crier went on to explain things for those that weren't aware of Radahn's situation, as he rested to the north of where this fortress rested, wandering around like a mindless animal, collecting the corpses of allies and enemies alike to gorge on them, in a desolate area that was only accessible from a Waygate on the beach below their current position. He made it seem like Radahn's last wish, before losing his mind to the Scarlet Rot that ate him from the inside out, was to die a warrior's death, instead of remain trapped in this state, as if he knew he would lose to Malenia, though Tirek suspected that he made no such wish. In fact it was possible that the man was lying about the majority of what he had said, that he just wanted the Demigod to die so he could move on with his life and not be chained here for the rest of his life, though Tirek said nothing as the other warriors cheered, showing that they were excited for this battle. The oddest thing he noticed was that there was a living jar among the assembled group, a warrior jar he recalled, though it was massive, almost as tall as Blaidd, though at this point Tirek decided not to question it as everyone got ready for battle as the spirits started to fade.
With the information in hand the pair walked up to the chapel that was behind the Crier and found a lift that took them all the way down to the beach, where Tirek found the Waygate the figure had talked about, before he paused as he spotted a large figure slowly wandering in the sandy area across the river.
"Is that Radahn? He's massive!" Tirek remarked, because even from here he knew the figure was taller than everything he had faced so far, in fact only the dragons and trolls might be the closest to what he was seeing, and it looked like his next foe was riding on a small spec of dust.
"Indeed, to the point that he would have crushed his favorite little horse... he even went to the Academy to learn how to use gravity magic so he could ride it without crushing it." Blaidd said, something that caused Tirek to raise an eyebrow for a moment as he heard that, since it seemed so unusual and yet utterly common when he considered what he had seen in this world, where the wolfen warrior gestured to the Waygate, "Come, we have a battle to win."
Tirek nodded as they used the Waygate and teleported over to the arena in question, where he quickly found that Radahn, despite his seemingly mindless nature, was already primed and ready for combat as he pulled out a massive bow and did the same with a bunch of arrows, loosing a powerful one right at their location. In that moment Tirek summoned his own power and used a barrier to stop the attack in it's tracks, before discovering that all he could actually do was stall it for a few seconds before directing it into part of the sand to his left, opening the way for Blaidd to rush at Radahn. Since this was a festival, and that all sorts of warriors had come to do battle with him, Tirek's plan was simple, they were going to use the others to their advantage, call in all of the other warriors and pit them against the Demigod, to weaken him enough so they could deliver the finishing blow. While they did so, however, Radahn loosed a volley of arrows into the air, which just rained down on whoever he happened to be targeting at any given moment, but since he could only target one that let the other track down the summon signs that had been placed in the arena, why Tirek didn't know and he honestly didn't care at this point in time.
Sure enough all of the spirits he had seen previously appeared in the sandy arena, warriors summoned to do battle with the strongest of the Demigods, or so the Crier claimed, and they charged at the figure without wasting time, forcing the massive warrior to switch to a pair of large blades as he rode a tiny horse into battle.
Fighting Radahn was far tougher after that point as he swung his blades with incredible speed and with accuracy that just shocked Tirek, because with the fact that his mind and body should have been eaten by the Scarlet Rot he fought like he was in his prime and not a mindless monster. That was why he didn't believe most of the Crier's tale, because if Radahn still had the power to hold back the stars, and fight them with the powers and skills he was showing off so far, it made him doubt that he was as gone as people believed he was, rather he was mostly feral until someone came to fight him. Even with such a thought in mind he had to be careful, as the massive blades hurt when they struck their targets, forcing him to heal with one of his flasks, and Radahn even imbued his weapons with gravity magic so he could tear rocks out of parts of the ground and use them to either further inflict harm on his opponents or just hurl them like projectiles. It was madness when he considered what they were doing, as the Demigod tore through the ground and seemed to transform the rest of the landscape around him with every swing of his massive weapons, or at least Tirek thought so since the ground was more like ash or fine sand.
With how massive he was it was hard to tell if they were actually doing any damage to him, though Tirek knew something was up when Radahn seemed to push his horse into the ground as he launched himself up into the sky, disappearing in a matter of seconds as everyone spread out... only to come down as a freaking meteor that smashed into the hill he had started on, crushing everything around him with ease.
"Seriously?! Is there anything he can't do with gravity magic?" Tirek remarked, though as he said that he watched as some of the other warriors were tossed into the air by the meteor's impact, a power he was thankful he hadn't been hit by since he was sure it would have killed him in an instant, only for Radahn to shift his stance and cut down the fallen warriors, returning their spirits to their own worlds.
"As far as I know, no... I also had no idea he could even do such a thing." Blaidd stated, as the meteor attack was a move that he and his fellows had no knowledge on, since none of the people who worked for their Mistress, who came to fight the Demigod for his Great Rune, had survived to tell the tale.
In the next moment Tirek decided that enough was enough as he summoned all of his power, creating an aura around his body as he lashed out at Radahn with bolts of magical energy, blasting at his armor and whatever parts of his body he could see right now, since he moved to protect his horse. Radahn swung his blades at him while he did that, though both were stopped as Tirek manipulated the sand into metallic chains that wrapped around his blades, because he didn't care about his foe's ridiculous powers anymore and wanted this to end. Such a thing allowed Blaidd to jump up onto their foe's back and slash at whatever opening he could find, doing whatever he could to freeze the giant Demigod and slow him as much as he could, causing Radahn to try and lash out at him while he landed nearby. That movement allowed Tirek to lash out with his most potent attack, an arrow made of pure magic, that struck the Demigod's chest and went out his backside, while meeting some resistance as he expected, but as Radahn collapsed he dissolved into pure mist, allowing his Runes and his Great Rune to surge into Tirek's body.
As he breathed a sigh of relief, that the battle was over, the stars themselves started to move before their eyes, causing a shower of sorts, before one streaked across the sky, closer than all of the others, and slammed into what had to be part of Limgrave, causing a faraway detonation as it struck the ground.
"That's most likely what we're looking for." Tirek remarked, though it was astonishing to imagine that Radahn was able to hold back so many stars, even one that would have changed the entire landscape of the area it had landed in, though this was a step in the right direction for them.
He was, of course, pleased with the progress they were making, though something told him that things were only going to get even tougher for them as they progressed further along the path that would allow them to fulfill Ranni's quest, and he was eager to see what the fallen star had to offer them.