Odessa quickly moved to his side, catching him before he hit the ground.
"Jaenor! Are you all right?"
He managed a weak smile. "I think so. Though I'm starting to understand why you were so surprised about the dual energies."
She helped him sit up, checking for serious injuries.
"That was... I've never seen anything like it. The way you fought, the techniques you used—it was like you were making it up as you went along."
"I was," he admitted.
"But somehow, it felt right. Like I was finally doing what I was supposed to do."
Around them, the town square lay in ruins, but the people who had fled were already beginning to emerge from their hiding places.
The immediate threat was over, or so they thought.
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Meanwhile, in the narrow defile before Berdshire Fortress, something happened that startled everyone present in the narrow field.
