Using everything he had, the captain of the guards blocked an attack from the dark-cloaked assassin, feeling his body going numb as the rippling force of the strike echoed throughout his entire body, every single bone holding him up feeling utterly jittery.
'That's not normal strength, is she even human?' the captain had jumped into the fray nearly just as Maliah had knocked down many of his men onto their asses with the corpses of one of their fellow, still, not even trying anything like before, she just began swinging wildly, her movement impossible to follow as she carved her way through the armoured masses, no amount of group battle arts or coordination could help them.
"Ah, the big fish has finally shown up! Let me peel off those scales!" he attempted to use a sword art, but she spun right around him, killing guards as he went before kicking him in the back of his knee.