The Coming of Wisdom by Dave Duncan

Author:Dave Duncan [Duncan, Dave]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Fantasy, Epic, Action & Adventure, Fiction
ISBN: 9780759279155
Google: hxXdEai_4t4C
Publisher: E-Reads
Published: 2001-05-31T04:41:47+00:00

Nnanji played with Vixini a little and talked to the slave woman a little, but mostly he thought swordsmanship. This shipboard technique was very interesting: very little footwork, and then only short steps. Tremendous armwork; point, not edge. He wouldn't give Tomiyano a fair match, even on land, but he would certainly beat Thana there—she'd never get near him. Yet obviously on the ship he was a scratcher again. A good swordsman ought to know both ways, and clearly Shonsu did.

How good was Tomiyano? Two or three ranks below Shonsu. But he had been fighting with a longer sword than he was used to. Give him a half rank for that and take one off for being on his own deck, and at least two for wielding sword against foil. The trouble was knowing how to grade Shonsu. There was no measuring Sevenths. "To be a Seventh," Briu had liked to say, "is simply to be unbeatable." Shonsu was the best in the World, maybe a ten?

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