"..." I and Mikael clash with a sword strike, I hold my sword with my tail striking in a vertical cut while he holds the Mesumari with his remaining arm.
"That hammer attack was impressive, but it lacked enough magic to kill me," Mikael says as he starts to win the strength competition. I jump back, distancing myself and forming a shield to defend against another of his frontal attacks.
Mikael realized quite quickly that in that attack I used more of an existing physical concept to deliver a powerful blow, and only used magic to move the hammer at extreme speed.
So the blow was actually about 97% purely physical and 3% magical, which was the magic I spent to move it and the small magical wave released by Violet on impact.
"You weren't really holding back, I thought you wanted to marry me, not kill me," Mikael says as he makes a large purple cut with the Mesumari that I evade, entering the shadows and coming out behind him, managing to make a cut with the sword.
