Exorcist and Praetor
With the water level lowered, there was just one more level to go before they reached the very bottom. From here, the water was already thin enough to see what lay below—the Hex obelisk, emitting square-shaped perimeters of blue light around it that faded away with distance.
Sure, I could just leap into the water right now, and destroy it from there. But there was a problem—beside the obelisk, on either side of it, a Hex mech lay. One appeared to be a Praetor that wielded an enormous two-handed greatsword, and the other was some kind of… weird round humanoid being that somewhat resembled a ball.
But of course, thanks to the handbook the riversnakes left behind, we knew better. That was no ball—that was an Exorcist-class Hex, and a Healer subclass at that.
That was going to be a huge problem fighting them head-on, much less in the water. As such, we decided to just do things the normal way and clear out this floor first.