Troublesome though its ability to reform wood was, it didn't seem to be as quick as it needed to be. This time, as Oliver closed the distance between the two of them at lightning pace, it needed to use its other arm in an attempt to block, for the spear-arm was still having trouble reducing itself to meet him.
He feigned an attack towards the thinned-out arm. The creature hurried to block, forming a wooden shield with all its mass. Oliver ducked down, carried by the momentum of his own attack, and swept the Wood Sprites feet out from under it, earning a cry of surprise in return.
Disoriented, the Wood Sprite's vines sped off in the wrong direction, attempting to anticipate the strike that was to come. Oliver had already shifted to the other side and cast his sword down towards the Wood Sprite's neck.
