The Fight Outside, Part Five

A dozen rock spears shot diagonally outward. They surrounded Lilia with her as the acting midpoint. Each spike traveled with whirlwind-high speed and pinpoint precision.

"You're pitiful!" Lilia scoffed while she made a vast leap backward.

The impaling spikes shattered into one another as she zipped through the air. They crumbled into large chunks of stone and dust.

"You think such a thing would defea-" Lilia started with confidence, but her inexperience would be her downfall. Though she was undoubtedly a formidable opponent, her naive arrogance and failure to plan ahead left her vulnerable to consecutive strikes.

When she landed, I'd already hoisted my shield upward on a rock pedestal, and its runes activated.

A flurry of stone shards ejected from the shield while it drew replacement stone in from the earth. What looked like a gray mist of razor-sharp rock filled the space between Lilia and me.