Avan
It depends on how Emery spent 36 hours, will you be doing a chapter after this one when you explain what he did in that time or will you go straight into action ? Btw, Emery killed like dozens of black elves so I don't think he'll lose against a bunch of neutral losers, especially that he already used one of them and the other captain is on the same level, the only worry are two grand Magus and Emery is on par with one when it comes to stats, so most feasible thing to do is buy a grand Magus slave or at least hire one to help, at least in my opinion