[Rosekitten]

"Oh have I? Good to know I was doing something right. After a few years of working on thinning out your ranks I was starting to think no one was ever going to notice." Ok so he did every so often go out of his way to kill the scouting groups from the Eastern army but still. He had wanted to meet up with this mage a third time, but on his terms. This was as good as it was going to get apparently.

"Should have, but you lost that chance many years ago." He growled before the spell cast was finished. Ah yes ice mage, over the years he had found fighting mages almost a sport anymore. Though most of the recent ones hardly got a few spells off before falling. It bored him really. The idea of a challenge was a welcomed one.

Felix was right in a way. Thalion wasn't all that different from most of his kind. Even if he avoided fighting he still had a urge for a challenge. It had drove him to this. If Mizuki had never crossed that line back when they crossed paths the second time then none of this might have taken place. But that line was crossed and probably caused all of this. The training and the almost obsession to kill every mage he crossed paths with.

But ti seemed this one thought that the battle would end quickly. He wasn't going to make it that easy. Even if he was going to lose he'd make the Eastern General work for his head. He knew he had fire magic but he always refused to use it and this would be no different. Unless his temper got the better of him then he wouldn't if he had a say in it.

No he had means to deal with such attacks as he stepped back once, both blades already drawn as he crossed both blades as a clear barrier surrounded him just in time to block the ice. That was a bit close for comfort though the blades gave away what had caused the barrier. Each handle holding a gem from the looks of it.

He had spent years researching runes and gems with special properties to reflect and dispel magic. He was more then prepared and he was willing to test his training here and now. Against lesser mages the crafted items stood flawlessly. Though he never had given them a true test against a master of the magic arts.

"Your going to have to try harder." He taunted before taking his chance to try to get a strike in against the mage before him. Though he doubted he was going to get close enough to do so just yet. Not to say this barrier was perfect, it would let some magic get through and it didn't always protect as it should. A work in progress that he was risking a bit on at the moment.

Even if it failed he had other means to guard against spells. Till he could wear the mage out or get close enough to make the strikes he needed. The easier option would have been to use the fire magic he had but he refused to stoop that low. It was the one thing well almost the one thing that gave away the blood line he was and he didn't want that to be known information just to cause further trouble.