He was pretty clever , Rodetta was not ready for the man to use his own sword as a spring board to clear the the part of the field which were littered by her caltrops. Plus now she was off balance,  her backstepping had failed her, she could feel her self falling backwards, and she did not care, this might just work. She was now squeezing her right fist as once again the red energy was boiling again in her spirit, the man would probably have a counter for her sword or shield at this moment, so she decided to forgo either. It was scary seeing this deft warrior falling toward her like a meteor, but she was a dragon princess this was not going to shift her resolve.

[color=ed1c24]Let's see you spring board off this![/color]

Her right hand was now glowing with red energy, and Rodetta was growling with what sounded like a dragon's guttural roar. Rodetta the Red tapped into her natural pyromancy and launched fairly large fireball straight up at the man, who was falling towards her. Rodetta was no eastern ninja, but she knew as well as anyone that aerial attacks left you basically no room to dodge, gravity had already dictated your path. Rodetta was quite accuarate with her fireballs and with this fairly imposing man so close falling in her range [i]she didn't even have to be accurate[/i]. The fireball was about 3 feet tall and wide and shot with the speed of a cannon, this was launched while rodetta was falling backwards, she hit the floor hard as part of the recoil of the fireball.

The stumble hurt as her shield and armor bashed against her own body upon impact,she expected some bruising from the tumble. She did her best to tuck her feet in and roll backward to return to her feet hoping to lesser the impact and gain just a foot or two more distance backwards, before the the Ryllan hit the ground...[i]if there was anything left of him to hit the ground.[/i]