With a groan, Jake pulled out the bolt. The Warmaster didn’t miss a beat and went in again, the dropped longsword replaced with a shortsword. He engaged with the expectation that Jake was weakened from the bolt… unaware of the mistake he had just made.
Jake didn’t even consider being defensive, as he was done playing around after the insult of being hit by a crossbow bolt. He dodged the first swing and stabbed forward, and after finding himself parried once, he skirted to the side and into the Warmaster’s right flank.
The man turned to face him as Jake attacked again with ferocious intent. He didn’t hold anything back; both katars began glowing with arcane light, and both started to give off small shockwaves of destructive arcane energy with each blow. These shockwaves didn’t really do a
