Rate of movement: two hundred and eighteen hundred meters per second. I’d practiced using it to help use Haste more effectively, but this was my first time trying it in a real fight.įrankly speaking, using it in this way was a gamble, but it was one I liked better than taking the swing head-on.Īs his shockwave approached, my mind raced. The spell wasn’t designed for combat, but I’d known from the start it might have combat applications. If someone without an attunement got hit, they were going to have a very bad day. Even splitting it in half with my own swing would have potentially allowed for collateral damage. I could have dodged easily…and if I did, it would have gone straight into the crowd. The only difficulty was that being a ranged attack, it had more than one possible target. I thought mine was, too, before I’d seen literally every high-level sword fighter I’d met using it. He probably thought his shockwave technique was original.

“You have my answer!” He swung his aura blade, but it wasn’t close enough to hit me. “Again, I offer you the chance to yield.” Instead, I raised my own aura blade and spoke again. I could have taken that opening, but I didn’t. I’d sliced his badge of rank in half in the process.Īs we both recoiled from the aura blades colliding, he looked downward in disbelief. I left a long trail of crimson across his chest, but that wasn’t the real damage. I pulled my blade downward, slicing open his uniform shirt and parrying at the same time. He was right, but that didn’t mean I wouldn’t cut something.

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