"Haa… Haa… Haa…" I released labored breath after labored breath. The battle I had just finished has drained me of more energy than I expected.
Tael is a remarkable wizard. There is no doubt about that now. Had he been working with others, I may have lost. A part of me shudders to think of what Jask the Hell Guardian had to go through.
I slowed my breathing. The dust settled back onto the ground while I returned to my neutral state. My adrenaline stopped pumping and my bloodlust ceast. I no longer was thinking of violence.
At the edge of my hearing, I could hear Tael's breathing. It was so quiet that I mistook it for something in the distance falling over at first.
After a moment, I turned my gaze to look at him. His chest slowly rose and fell while he clung to life.
Watching his battered and broken body… The split lip and the blood that seeped out of it…
