Who would have thought that the blow to end a man's life would be met with such a ringing? Vol felt the tremor all the way down the shaft of his warhammer. He must have caught it, he thought, despite his expectations, but even if he'd caught it, he wouldn't have been able to redirect the strike by much. There was only so much redirecting that could be done with a blow like that.
Cautiously, he opened his eyes, taking a step back. He knew it must have been a bad wound, for he didn't feel pain. The worst wounds were those that you didn't immediately feel. Those that shocked the body to the point of numbness, where it took a few seconds for the nerves to process exactly what they'd encountered.
