⸢Iron Hold: An ultra defensive Skill that creates a solid force around the user, turning any armor or shield into an unmovable roadblock⸥
⸢B-Grade Knight Skill⸥
The impact was cataclysmic.
A shockwave of force and sound ripped outwards, flattening fungi and sending concentric ripples across the black lake.
The ground beneath Mercius's feet cratered, the root-flesh tearing and compacting into a hardpan. Chips of mystical fungus and stone shot through the air like shrapnel.
From the tremor that reverberated, Mercius slid back a foot, his boots carving trenches. A crack appeared in the spectral face of his Paragon Shield, but it healed itself in the following moment.
Mercius held strong. Stopping a powerful charge like that, even with ⸢Iron Hold⸥, would have broken the arms of a lesser man.
But this was Mercius of Brackenbridge. Butcher of Demonspawns.
And after this battle, Butcher of Dragons.
