Chapter 15: The Trap
I bent my back unnaturally, ignoring the pain that wracked through me as I limbo under his strike. As I did, Ragnar's body blitzed past me in the air, continuing forward.
I turned around to ready myself to counterattack, then watched with wide eyes as he spun himself around mid-air, his feet planting flat on a tree he had been hurtling toward.
He pressed his feet into the tree, kicking off it and launching forward at me again. Behind him, the tree was ripped straight from the ground, roots and all, as it tumbled over.
I hastily threw myself to the side again, barely dodging the strike as he flew past me again.
"Raya!" I shouted, flinging myself to the ground again as Ragnar blitzed through the air at me, another tree being ripped from the ground as he did, "Just keep throwing them at me! No waiting!"
"S-Sure!" Raya responded, and a spear landed in my hand.
Ragnar was moving far faster than I could - I couldn't even hope to match his speed as he blitzed back and forth through the forest at me. However, he wasn't getting this speed boost for free.
Judging by the way he was crisscrossing past me in straight lines, he couldn't control the speed very well. He wasn't getting a speed boost - he was getting a momentum boost.
Once he was off the ground, he would keep going until something stopped him - as the trees were doing right now.
He wasn't an agile cheetah - no, he was more like a rampaging rhinoceros, slamming into everything in his way without care. I could use this to my advantage.
Just as the spear landed in my hand, I was forced to swing it.