The mocking words of the necromancer had not yet been fully processed by Desmond's brain when the latter felt a tearing pain in his abdomen, Desmond only managed to see a dark blur impact him in the stomach when the sparks jumped from the friction between the condensate miasm and its armor.
Desmond was immediately invaded by pain and the sensation of weightlessness, the landscape around him blurred for a moment until Desmond hit the ground in the distance; The necromancer's attack had failed to pierce through his enhanced armor but still sent Desmond almost fifty feet away.
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Desmond cough a few times for having his lungs spit out all the air inside them, but as soon as Desmond managed to catch a little breath, he looked up only to see just inches from his face a dark spike going straight for his skull.
