I advance towards the swordsman while the little girl focuses on the mage, I hear the clinking of the metal blade against my hands.
"Can't regenerate, can't you?" The rupture effect drastically affected the regeneration, especially the one done by magic, so the mage could only stop the bleeding of his severed arm but couldn't regrow it with healing magic.
To regenerate that lost limb would require sacred magic.
But even with just one hand, he's still a skilled swordsman, and there aren't many useful openings for me to take advantage of.
'He's pushing me away from the mage...' Our strikes and movements are slowly pushing us further away from the mage.
'He's planning to get serious.' I decide to press him with speed, I reinforce my body with mana and accelerate my movements while he does something similar.