Korde reacted fast to the onslaught of throwing weapons coming his way. He didn't expect his own fire blasts to do much, but it looked like the challenger had finally decided to do more than just sit back. He dashed forward with a devilish grin, closing both the gap between them and possible angle the projectiles could fly. he was able to take quite a few of them in one swing of his ax, but there were still that seemed to cut him. Oddly enough when he went to chagre in toward Leon, he was wielding his axe in a rather strange matter. he held it with the axe head down and him holding out the shaft like a sword. With a flash he was upon Leon, interchanging blows between using the shaft and axehead interchangably