It also didn’t help that Umbra’s fighting style was very skewed toward feints and exploiting her unique magic. Having her arm swinging a dagger suddenly turn into two mid-swing would probably take most by surprise and make it hard to dodge, but to Jake, this was just Umbra wasting resources, as he could easily tell the true arm and the shadow arm apart.
She kept trying new things over and over again, switching up her strategy slightly on the fly, but Jake stayed one step ahead at every turn. Jake could feel her frustrations mounting, but Umbra didn’t let it affect her combat prowess in the slightest.
Also, while it was true his opponent failed to land any hits, Jake wasn’t doing that much better himself. But… he did know he was winning in the resource department. As a fast assassin, Umbr
