The resulting explosion sent the man flying, gravely injured, but he wasn’t dead. To make matters worse, the healer had already repaired most of the obvious damage for the first woman who Aster nearly killed. The same woman punched out at Matt and broke one of his ribs with the strike despite the protection from [Cracked Phantom Armor] and his physical armor. Caught by surprise, Matt dodged the next attack, and was about to bring his longsword around at the woman when he caught an arrow in his arm that interrupted his swing. Cursing, he pulled back and tossed a half-dozen [Fireball] talismans out of his spatial ring and activated them with a thought. The streams of fire went in nearly every direction, and seemed like a chaotic and uncoordinated attack that would miss each of the attack

