Board Thread:Roleplaying/@comment-17114085-20170908205632/@comment-25073873-20170917130435

(Taliesin's back is facing away from her since he keeps his front facing her, there's no way she can hit him there. The side maybe, but not his back)

Taliesin didn't even bother to parry the kick, as part of his armor detached and became a solid barrier which shattered to Marutha's kick. However, this gave him enough of an opening to strafe sideways, since the barrier would block the kick and reduce its force dramatically, altering the attack's course. That, and his armor self repaired via his ability.

The shards from the armor all turned into needles and stabbed into Marutha's leg, while the stakes pinned in her shoulders also bored into her body. Marutha would feel the Darkmatter carving its way through her body again, as even more stakes shot at her from all directions. They were all aimed at her body, though.

Taliesin was not stupid enough to engage in pure melee combat where he would be forced to defend, since he didn't win in the strength department, despite not actually being weak or slow himself. The fact Marutha had to engage him in melee put her at a tremendous disadvantage from the start, and he would capitalize on that.

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Eidys could observe what was happening, and frowned. However, she didn't seem very fazed at what she was seeing, figuring all she had to do was to actually get something past the wind barrier. Of course, if she fought a mage, the mage would definitely keep away from her.

And against a mage, shock damage was effective. Eidys' hands sparked, and from them she fired multiple jagged bolts of lightning to pierce through the wind shield directly. As she didn't need her hands to summon sword copies, making Ysabel use both a ward and a wind barrier to block attacks would eat up her opponent's magicka faster than her own. The lightning meant Ysabel was going to lose magicka either way.