Xander continued to attack me, making sure that it was impossible for me to attack him. However, that was a lost cause.
I was faster than him at dodging. There was no doubt about it in my mind. I was stronger than him physically for some reason even if I hadn't trained my body in over a month.
'Is it because of the aether?'
I couldn't be sure of it just yet. Nevertheless, from the moment I realized that I could move faster than him, I knew that the fight was as good as over.
It took me very few movements to completely overwhelm him as a whole, and by then it was already over.
I thought that it would have taken a lot more effort than this to win against Xander, but it seemed that I was much stronger than I had been anticipating. Maybe Zale had been right all along. All I needed to do was increase the amount of aether within my body.
After all, that was the only thing I had done apart from the battle with Zoe at the very beginning.
