It doesn’t make sense. Your mana is far more superior to her own, you are far more capable, and you’re undoubtedly stronger than she is. She is a human, after all. And yet, here you are, struggling to keep with a mage who shouldn’t even be deemed worthy as being classified as a threat. She was only using ordinary offensive and defensive magic, so how could it be possible that she was putting up such a fight?

With an emotionless gaze that doesn’t even meet your eyes, she slowly began to approach you. Each step as graceful as the last as the distance only continued to close. Fern’s purple eyes finally locked onto you, before she pointed her staff in your direction, a large circular glyphs forming at the tip as she prepared to fire yet another set of attacks