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"Don\'t touch anything," he said.

Evie, while barely able to feel heat, was visibly sweating.

Her ever-so-cold skin had droplets running along it.

The weather was on the colder side too, a cold breeze always present in the village.

Her eyes were jumping around to any and every sound.

She stood up, unnaturally holding her arm up, making sure she touched nothing. Sure enough, no ice built up, confirming what Vroto thought.

"Just stay behind me. We\'ll buy time until the rest of our troops arrive."

Evie heavily nodded, taking a few steps backward and staying behind Vroto.

Her other hand, which was torn in half, had been frozen solid, she probably hoped to keep it intact until a healer arrives, he thought.

Mori and Griswald were walking down the steps leading to the road.

"Not so smug, anymore? You know, Luxian managed to get four of my limbs?"

Evie took another step behind the knight.

"Where is he?" asked Vroto.

"You better ask Reaper. Oh. Right."

Vroto frowned.

"You\'re quite arrogant, Mori. You\'re acting the same way she did moments ago, you both aren\'t so different."

"Oh but we are, because she\'ll be dead in a moment, and I won\'t."

Griswald rolled his eyes. "Humans, am I right?"

Vroto ignored him, his eyes remaining on Mori.

A small wind had picked up, cold like the rest, but differently.

This wind felt like it was biting his face, dry and icy.

The day was still early, and the sun high up but no signs of its warmth down there.

Aura, Lilae and Xannos were standing on the porch behind, all wearing the cloaks Brök had provided, while Aura had in her hands the extra cloak and the backpack for Mori.

The moment Vroto\'s eyes sat upon them, Griswald whipped forward, a loud snap resounding as it reached him.

As if he had predicted it, the knight easily deflected the whip, turning on himself at the same time.

It looked as if he was about to vertically strike forward, as he took a giant step, bringing his battleaxe in range.

His weapon was high above his head, quickly going down.

Chains came out from the ground around him, but Vroto dodged them all with ease. As his Battleaxe would\'ve reached Mori, he raised chains in front of himself.

"No! Grab it! What are you doing?!" said Griswald.

Next to Mori\'s face, the battleaxe that should\'ve been striking his chains was whistling past his head, heading for the group on the porch.

Griswald quickly turned, grabbing the battleaxe\'s handle with his whip.

As he did, Vroto had already punched Mori, sending him flying meters backward.

Griswald did a 180, swinging the battleaxe horizontally back at Vroto, who jumped to dodge it.

Griswald did another 360, swinging it back at Vroto right away, who jumped while smiling, as if he expected as much.

As Griswald started his next 360 going right, Vroto quickly got inside the arc his opponent was describing, ready to punch the life out of Griswald.

Vroto\'s smile quickly faded.

Griswald 360 abruptly stopped, as he came back on his movement, going left.

Vroto got ready to jump again, but the whip had gotten extremely faster, only dodging by a hair out of reaction speed alone.

Why was it faster? he thought.

As he looked closer, he realized his battleaxe wasn\'t attached to the whip anymore.

He quickly looked left, but it was too late, he tried using his armguards to absorb the shock.

At the end of a chain Mori was holding was the battleaxe. Griswald had traded it with Mori before returning on his 360 spin.

Mori did a 360 himself, going the opposite way, Vroto got his armguards ready to absorb the shock again however on the opposite side Griswald took the battleaxe before it touched Vroto, spinning it the opposite side again.

Vroto turned around, however Griswald had faked out, only doing a 180 to come back the same direction he left.

The weapon hit Vroto\'s side, making a huge dent in his armor, while Mori took back the battleaxe as it hit him.

Mori and Griswald kept trading the weapon between them, describing wide arcs as they flailed it around.

Vroto did his best to keep up, however his position was horrible. He was dead-center between both of them, and their relentless attacks made it impossible for him to cover all angles.

The repeated feints and fake-outs, and them trading his weapon added fuel to the fire.

As he finally got used to their horizontal movements, they both had started adding vertical sweeps, and as he turned around they would use their chains and whips to attack in the small delay they had before picking the weapon right back up.

As Griswald picked up the battleaxe, Vroto stomped. The ground heavily shook, unbalancing the both of them.

Vroto quickly ran toward Mori, who was the most open. Griswald wouldn\'t reach him with the battleaxe for a good second, giving him enough time to turn the 2v1 into a 1v1.

As Vroto would\'ve reached Mori, in a split second his eyes went right, as he heard a whistling sound, stopping his movement and dodging backward.

Evie had tried to send an icicle forward, however, the ground shaking threw her aim off, her projectile was heading straight for Vroto had he not dodged it.

"What the fuck are you doing?! Stay back! Do fucking nothing!" yelled Vroto.

Evie\'s whole body was shaking, as she took a few steps backward.

She looked at her own hands, disbelief on her face.

Griswald who was going to be late on his attack on Vroto, sent the weapon flying toward Evie.

"No you don\'t!" yelled Vroto, sprinting at an unimaginable speed to catch up to it.

In his peripheral vision, He saw Mori\'s chain extend further than it had before, taking the weapon\'s handle before his eyes and pulling on it.

Mori had another clean hit on the same side they hit before in one clean sweep, sending Vroto meters further to the ground.

Evie didn\'t go toward him, nor did she attack to buy time.

She was walking backward, scared.