Book 6. Chapter 23: Lionheart
I get a feeling Lionheart thought he’d be fighting the good fight against me, leader to leader.
That didn’t happen, because Father was Father. He got the first hit in.
And the second hit.
And third, fourth and fifth hit.
Honestly not much of a fair fight when it came to the two Deathless here. The moment the fight started, he overclocked his systems to full, and moved as fast as his Feather’s shell possibly could, swords easily pinning the veteran Deathless’s weapon from the very start, while his other blade slashed again and again at the exposed target, making perfect use of the occult guard modification I’d added to those blades.
Lionheart tried stepping back in an attempt to free his blade, but Father was stronger than relic armor, faster, and already predicted the Deathless would try that.
The sixth hit actually got avoided, and only because Drakonis had precommitted to casting his shockwave at the both of us, throwing us off our feet and sailing away.
Father traveled a lot less distance given his mass, and his body’s perfect calculations allowed him to land back on the ground ready to fight.
I on the other hand, got a faceful of occult as Drakonis cast an occult leash directly on me, then yanked himself off the ground right into my face midair, left arm glowing with poorly hidden flames, the windup looking like he was about to suckerpunch me.