The start of the battle was not very exciting as both of the fighters were sizing each other up but soon Tomoe decided to go on offensive when she felt like it was the right opportunity. Even though Karl was mostly a mage, as a duke class noble vampire his physical abilities were top tier and he was not worried about close quarters combat.
But as soon as the close quarters combat battle started, Karl almost got killed within only seven exchanges. His head was still attached to his body only because he was a noble vampire with extremely powerful regeneration capabilities. But still he had to spend an insane amount of mana for this regeneration which was not a good thing, specially because he was just at the very beginning of his bout.
