Chapter 56: Stuck in a Stalemate
"[Sonic Flight]," Chanted Jacks, his feet lifting up off the ground as a faint, high-pitched ringing echoed around him, before he shot towards Tacitus with immense speed.
Tacitus swiftly raised his sword up defensively, grimacing as Jacks shot past him and inflicted a shallow cut across his left side, his sword only partially deflecting the slash of the Knight’s blade, before a crash echoed out from behind him.
He glanced back, to see Jacks sprawled across the ground, before getting back onto his feet with a slight groan, a couple of trickles of blood running down from the middle of his forehead as he wiped his sleeve across his forehead with a slightly dazed look in his eyes.
"I see...you can’t yet fully control the speed that Spell gives you. Good, that means you definitely can’t use the more powerful Supersonic Flight Spell," Surmised Tacitus, before turning his gaze to the left as Dox came charging in with his spear poised forward, trails of blood running down his face from his hair, the front of his hair matted down.
A dark mist burst out around him as he closed in on Tacitus, before the spear came shooting out of the shadowy cloud. Tacitus sprang back to evade the thrust of the spear, before swinging his sword across to his right as a barrage of light projectiles came shooting towards him, batting them away before he quickly turned his gaze forward as Jacks came zipping towards him with immense speed.
"[Nullification Zone]."
The Knight’s eyes widened in alarm as he suddenly stopped speeding up, quickly crossed his blades in front of himself as Tacitus whipped his sword up towards him, a loud clang echoing out as the large weapon slammed onto his blades and knocked him back several meters.
His feet hit the ground and skidded back as he managed to maintain his balance, his arms trembling from the impact as he glanced at his blades, a couple of cracks across the middle of one of them.
Tacitus then jammed his sword into the ground and arched his upper body back as Dox sprinted in towards him and drove his spear towards Tacitus, the blade cutting through the fabric over his chest before he swiftly grabbed the handle of the spear and gave it a firm tug.
Dox let out a startled yell as he got yanked off his feet, before Tacitus swung him across and flung him off to the left as Diar came charging in, his eyes widening in alarm before his squadmate crashed onto him, the pair collapsing in a heap before Tacitus turned his gaze forward as Jacks raced towards him and leapt forward with his blades raised high.
Tacitus swiftly pulled his sword out of the ground and raised it up defensively, Jacks’s blades slamming onto it with a sharp clang before his left blade snapped in half, before Tacitus swung his arm out to push Jacks back.