A Sovereign's Banner by Luke W. Logan

Author:Luke W. Logan [Logan, Luke W.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Fantasy, litRPG
Publisher: Luke W. Logan
Published: 2022-07-29T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 25

Lover

Typh categorically did not have a handle on this.

Academically she knew that when it came down to a duel between a melee classer and a mage, the caster typically held the advantage for as long as they could maintain a safe distance. The moment that was over, the mage would usually die a fairly abrupt death—typically one with lots of screaming while they were brutally hacked apart by the melee classer’s weapon of choice. This Alchemic Knight seemed to be a fan of a large two-handed axe, and after their first brutal exchange had cost Typh both of her hands, she’d quickly reverted to a more traditional form of combat, one where she primarily ran away.

Of course, Typh was not a typical mage—she had a noble class now, even if all of her skills were mana related—and so when she ran from the knight, she did so with style. The dragon flew through the cavern at truly ridiculous speeds, especially considering the area’s limited size, while she rained down countless destructive spells on her foe and narrowly dodged the arcs of force hurled back at her. She also had to contend with the walls of the chamber themselves, and the dragon was all too aware that a single collision would likely take her out of the fight. If the impact didn’t do it, then the swarm of glowing blades that raced through the air certainly would.

These green arcs of force emanated from the knight’s axe-head and raced through the air only a heartbeat slower than she could dodge. Her massive intelligence stat just barely managed to let her recognise the imminent threats and yank her body out of the way with a twist of will so sudden that her hairpin turns threatened to cause her to black out from the rapid changes in acceleration.

She responded to this aggression with mana-bolts, blades of hardened light, rays of fire, and plain old concussive blasts that blended force and heat in every contrasting ratio she could think of. After seeing the Alchemic Knight emerge time and again, unscathed and unblemished, while somehow ignoring the searing flames that had literally melted the very ground the armoured figure trod on, Typh had just about given up hope she could win this fight conventionally. It was only the fact that the knight actually made the effort to dodge her attacks that she felt it was worth continuing with their battle of attrition.

However, she was definitely losing.

Just maintaining the speeds required to stay aloft and out of harm’s way was a constant drain on her mana supply, as well as her health. That steadily trickled downwards, and not just from the painfully throbbing stumps where her hands used to be. Her brain felt bruised inside her skull and her joints cried out in agony at every abrupt turn. At this rate she would run out of health long before she did mana, and that wasn’t even accounting for the intermittent spells she enhanced with [Artillerist’s Empowerment].

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