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"You sure you want that?" He asked once more as he took hold of his own blade.
A eyes darkened in colour as the seriousness was set to steel, a look of a bird of prey focussing on his potential opponent.
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"But of course," Leo replied as he moved into a guard stance, straightening his posture with his free hand held behind his back and his sabre pointed forward at Tyrhallan. "We could be facing the biggest fight of our lives soon. A bit of last minute practice wouldn't hurt. Much."

Tapping into the energies of his very soul, Leo closed his eyes and breathed deeply until he felt strength flowing through him from the core of his heart to the fingertips of his sword hand. In another breath that strength extended to the hilt of the sabre then onto the blade itself, forming a sheathe of ki around it and reinforcing the bonds within the steel until it hummed with power. When Leo opened his eyes, he felt as though he could cut down Gaia herself as he cracked a smile at Tyrhallan.

"Will you oblige me by attacking first, sir?" the Silver Spider asked amiably. "Or shall I make the first m-"

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Sensing a disturbance in the air, Leo looked away from his opponent as he searched for its source and saw a squad of battlemages gathering nearby, one of them looking back at Leo in particular with hands raised in front of him. Seeing the faint distortions of light in the space between them, a clear sign of mana at work, Leo lowered his sabre as he said, "It looks like we have an audience."

Whatever his differences with the other knights, if it was one thing Leo shared with them it was their rivalry with the mages. All knights had this in common. That was unless their noble leader, Tyrhallan, had anything to say about it of course, but then again Leo was never one to pass up a good opportunity for entertainment. Shooting a mischievous glance at the Captain, Leo raised his hand in greeting towards the mages as he called out, "Ho there friends! Looking for the war or are you just lost?"