"If I sneeze too hard, this stick might shatter," Victor muttered dryly as a magical beast with a wolf's snarl and a serpent's tail lunged at him.
He spun low and flicked his cane upwards, striking the creature across the jaw just enough to send it staggering but not enough to damage the cane.
A minor vibration crawled up the shaft of the stick, but it held. Victor exhaled sharply and moved onward, striking the beast again multiple times before it fell off the ledge.
Elsewhere, Elyra Vorn wasn't having as much luck.
Her every movement seemed to ripple the very air with mana.
The green-skinned S-Ranked Warrior was practically a mana magnet. Despite her attempts to suppress it, strands of greenish-blue mana curled around her limbs with every breath she took.
Each time she swung her cane, it attracted enough force to smash through a wall, let alone a weak magic beast.
