The cloaked individual standing behind Tyr, his shadow unfortunately gave him away as Tyr could react in time to his attack, although he did lose a single strand of dreadlock.
He rolled away from the assailant before equipping his two axes, but one could tell just from a look that Tyr was in no mood for this.
An attempt had been made on his life? They had to be more to this than meets the eye because there was no reason one would want to kill him, was there?
Of course, there was, he was the leader of an entire army, and not everyone would be pleased with this, not even his supposed comrades.
He was an outsider in the end, a title he was familiar with as it hung over his head all his life.
"Who are you?" Tyr asked but part of him knew he would never get an answer to his question.
He was a tad bit disappointed but his question was received with an attack from this assassin.
Author here, we are nearing the conclusion of this arc.
I think I will return to how I was telling the story in the next arc and it won't just focus on fighting anymore as love interests will be introduced so that is something to look forward to.