Chapter 105: Interlude - Battle of the Second Stratum - Part 2
A moment later, Professor Fayren broke out in a burst of magic.
"Quit toying with them and finish this," Fayren snarled at the Knight Commander as soon as he took in the situation.
Rain turned to find Dun’s forehead colliding with his face despite their significant height differences, and he felt a crack in his nose as he was forced back.
"Did you honestly think your little parlor tricks would kill me?" Dun said as he stood, destroying all four of the blades inside him with a single swipe of his sword.
Rain wiped away the blood from under his nose. He almost disbelieved the degree of regeneration he could see through the holes in Dun’s armor. It should have been impossible... unless Commander Dun was a maven with a regeneration ability, but such abilities were typically weak, mana-intensive, and not very responsive to improvement since the most consistent way to do so was to inflict increasingly torturous amounts of pain and damage to the body.
"I’ll finish it with my next strike," Dun said, finally answering Fayren as he began to pour mana into his sword. The edge of it took on a white-red sheen, before transitioning through the spectrum to a blacklight hue, lightning crackling along it...
A sharpness so precise it could cut energy from the particles around it.
There was only one thing Rain could think of to meet such a blade and survive it...
He dropped his claymore, reaching upward, into the halo which had been gathering and mana ever since he’d put it on. It would be his first time truly attempting what he was about to do... The halo closed about his wrist...
As Fayren rejoined the fight, he opened up with a volley of orb-shaped lighting, tossing them out as fast as his arms could swing back and forth.
Kordia dodged as best she could. She had one flame left after drawing on the remains of the second to heal the knife wound.