The Earth Shifter slammed its powerful tail against the ground and used the momentum granted by that action to instantly accelerate itself towards Izroth. Its movements were incredibly precise and exact, almost to a fault. When something was too perfect, it eventually would become easy to read the next course of action.
Izroth leaned slightly to the right side while maintaining his sword stance. He successfully dodged the Earth Shifter's attack. At almost the same instance as the Earth Shifter's deadly claw missed Izroth, he shifted his sword 90-degrees clockwise and quickly sliced down through the air and struck the body of the Earth Shifter ruthlessly.
As soon as his attack connected, Izroth immediately resumed his previous stance. During that entire sequence of movements, Izroth's left hand remained rested upon his right wrist.