Your own conclusion was shared by Theresa apparently, as her favoring of a single a weapon, as powerful as it is, is something she rapidly retrained herself out of if Loren's memory is correct. Even the addition of your own spell pistol and the little bit of gear you've already gotten has significantly increased both your versatility and your ability to keep other people alive should you so choose. You saw her gear yesterday, and not only did she have a spell pistol and small shield, she had a number of throwing items with her as well as a small knife along her back. That and the intense six months of combat style retraining she locked herself up to accomplish after this. You did notice in the moving portrait that she only somewhat understood the basic attack styles that you've seen her use with your own eyes, likely a bunch of dueling habits. Having learned proper use of weight and momentum at the level she operates, she's going to be significantly more dangerous.
Internal monologue aside, you see the portrait restart, and this time, you notice the dwarf throwing his smoke bomb before hiding behind it. You manage to spot a deployed magma field gun again, although it's quickly covered by the stone wall that's being thrown up in front of the unloaded Hawk. The other one is in the process of unloading before Theresa steps out. It's hard to tell because of the blur of half second portraits, but it looks like several people are trying to form up before the Hawk is swatted out of the sky. You ability to see what's going on behind the stone wall is limited, but you do make out the initial action. There's one of the Stonebreakers caught off guard when Theresa comes through the wall, but it doesn't last long before he's covered in stone, but Theresa leads with a grab onto his helmet before driving her knee into his face, cratering the stone helmet.
At this point, many of the fighters are still stunned by the massive lightning storm, but a few seem to be doing well enough. An elf surges with power arm swelling with raw power and mass, charging Theresa and she adopts a form that gives you bad memories, shifting to a fully braced elbow block. The elfs fist stops, shattering, and the two arm bones behind it follow suit, rupturing out side ways. He's stunned, and Theresa takes quick advantage, shifting in for a roundhouse to the head. The pink and red cloud that his head becomes actually begins to crawl its way back toward becoming a head, but you know that the souls grasp on the brain is tenuous at best, and if there's enough residual healing magic to put his head back together, there's probably not going to be anyone in it.
The minotaur whose armor you spotted earlier charges in, swinging his war hammer which Theresa tries to block. Unfortunately, that's one of those lessons she needed to learn about, and she doesn't quite stop the head of the hammer from ringing her helmet like a gong, and she stumbles. The tauren though is shaken, and he can't seem to get the hammer back around before Theresa catches her balance and turns it into a full body punch to his chest. As you expected, that blow smashed in his chest, along with sending him bouncing off the wall. One shoulder is crushed, and he manages to get his helmet off as he starts puking up blood before scrabbling to take off the cratered chest plate. A flash of lightning rips from Theresa along the remaining fighters on her side, accounting for more another half dozen lives.
Theresa actually breaks her momentum when she spots one of the few people still left on her side, who draws the sword you noted as stolen. Theresa tanks the hit as she closes in, before she grabs the dueling arm and snaps it half, twisting his hand off. The man begins to panic and tries to run before the princess grabs one of his feet, pulling him back and smashes her fingers through his chest armor, pulling out a handful of ribs and some organs before she slaps him against the stone wall. The audio is almost pure screaming and panic by this point, but a chorus of pure voices begins to sing, and a glow erupts from the opposite side and lightning begins hammering your sister. After the third strike, she begins to give ground before the bright light is too much to see through. Many of the remaining casters are bunching up to try and join the fray before a stone column erupts between them and Theresa. Even so, the onslaught is devastating, and the stone column is soon gravel and dust surrounding her.
As the barrage dies down, a sharp orange glow comes from the dust cloud before multiple fingers of high speed magma rips into the built up caster position. A spike of fear from behind you almost distracts you before you spot Theresa charge out of the cloud and engage the orcs who are finally getting their shit together. Knowing how it ends, you turn around to see Dina Sturmyaeger. Well, having survived that, it's no wonder she's got some residual fears. "Hello. I wanted to thank you from keeping a fight from breaking out."
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- Dina Sturmyaeger
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And thus concludes the tale of how Theresa met an attacking army and broke them across her knee.