THE TEST

Strike after strike he parried it without fail, even attacking me with elegant strikes of his own. Going in for a round house kick he bent low on the floor and swiped at my feet but I jumped up out of the way striking down with a great sword made of ice but as usual his sentient lightning axe blocked the attack. "great just what I needed! ". The recoil shut me back through the air like a pin ball.

Sentient weapons have minds of their own, they are made by infusing the mage's will into them. Very hood for covering blind spots and constant barrage of attacks towards an opponent. My eldest stepbrother Malfesto said that all nobles could create and use them. I can't. But then again according to him am a defective noble.

The lightning from the axe had my hair standing on end. I landed on the ground with the grace of a bag of salt. Right swing block, left swing block sentient weapon coming from above dodge back only to receive a swift kick to the abdomen. On and on he kept on coming, my breathing was heavy my arms sore, my throat perched. Close combat wasn't going to get me anywhere.

The goal of the fight was for my to land just a single hit on him but even that seemed impossible. I was running out of options so I jumped back to create so distance between us, following me were some fire daggers he had casted. Ice wall made quick work of them and gave me a second to think. This was not going anywhere I needed something to give me an edge so I decided to cast the high level spell "water bomb".

While holding my ice wall which kept on receiving a barrage of attacks I began to compress the water around a core of pure lightning covering the whole thing with a layer of air. I through lightning spears at him but he deflected them with a sweep of his hand walking towards me like the God of War. I let lose the water bomb and watched him try to deflect it the same way only for it to explode in his face. Seizing the chance I dashed out infused my body with lightning 100% I shot towards him like a bullet but just as I was about to touch him he caught my hand catching me unaware