He deflected her blade to the side and was moving in to kick her knee when a second version of her weapon chopped out at his leg.
Reflexively, Matt shifted all the filigree that made up [Cracked Phantom Armor]’s second layer to reinforce the exact area that the attack was about to strike. Queen may have been fast, but he’d been fighting faster foes than himself since even before he could double the potency of his perceptions on command. Her attack rebounded off 1,200 mana perfectly positioned to block it, though even then it very nearly broke through his primary defensive ability. In retaliation, Matt brought his own sword down on the smaller woman after stepping forward to close the distance.
Queen slipped to the side as if the ground was ice while chopping upward at his extended arm.
