Clad and Jonan exchange sword blows, with Clad slowly starting to keep up with his speed and techniques.
Tsk!
"Your swordsplay is quite good ill admit!"
"But try handling this!" Jonan said with a smile on his face as he rapidly attacked Clad, pushing him away and making him lose his momentum.
"Shit, he's using our difference in speed to overwhelm me!"
"I have to hold my own." Clad thought as he parried one of Jonan's attacks and struck at him, but he blocked the attacks with his arm, coating it with gray energy, allowing him to attack with his other arm, swinging directly at Clad's neck.
CLANG!
"What the..." Jonan said as he looked at his silver blade, stuck in Clad's neck, as it took on a more tree-like appearance.
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"And you're a dryad too?" He asked in surprise as Clad takes advantage of the fact that he is distracted to hit him in the stomach with a palm strike full of energy, sending him flying through a wall. Jonan grunthed before he rose back up, removing the dust from his clothes in the process.
"Ouch, that hurt," Jonan said as he got up, cracking his neck and slowly walking towards his sword, unleashing an aura as he picked it up.
"Maybe I should take this a little bit more seriously, huh?" He added as his gray eyes suddenly became white as a pearl.
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"His eyes' color became lighter?" Clad thought when out of nowhere Jonan kicked him in the stomach, which he successfully withstood before going in with a horizontal slashing attack, but the scout blocked the attack effortlessly with his blade. Jill watched from the projection as the two continued to exchange multiple rapid blows. She was impressed by the fact that Clad seemed to have gotten significantly better at the sword.
"With every fight he gets into, he gets closer to mastering the blade and becoming a swordmaster."
"Just like my mom before she became one herself!" She thought as she continued to watch the fight from the projection.
Clad started to get overwhelmed by Jonan's speed again, as he got cut at multiple places on his body, but for some unknown reason, his body felt more alive than ever, as he stared into Jonan's eyes, heavily breathing and quickly regained his footing, his pink eyes whitened, leaving him in shock as he witnessed what he expected the least from a man he has never met before.
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"Silvereign divinity!?"