Zadi's Sword Studies [Training]

Zadi's strength training was going well, but it wasn't at the level that Zadi wanted it to be. His magician-level strength was almost nonexistent with all the current training, but it wasn't up to the standard of other fighters such as the low-high ranked fighters. Zadi continued his daily rock training while adding things that upped his physical stamina such as running certain distances or jogging in place for a certain amount of time. It was taking a while, but Zadi continued his goal of being a "Warrior Magician". That pretty much just means a magician that can use melee weapons.

After a week of continued training, Zadi felt it was time to go back to the coliseum and take a look at some other fighting styles of melee combat.

"Now what kind of match is on right now? Oh! Two warriors with melee weapons of sorts! Perfect."

Zadi sat down and the match started shortly after. Both fighters just started to charge from 25 meters away. It was a rather long distance to cover at such fast speeds, but such a thing was probably nothing for the two warriors. Zadi could probably pull it off later in his life, but at the moment, he would probably use magic to run that fast and that far. He wouldn't dare run slowly over such a distance. Anyway, the two fighters continued their sprints and eventually reached each other with the fighter with a mace swinging down while the other fighter with a sword thrusted. Both missed because the mace fighter arced his body for a roll to the left and ended up tripping up the sword fighter.

"Whoa, nice dodge!"

However, the sword fighter seemed to anticipate a dodge of sorts and rolling with his trip. The two fighters ended up about 7 to 10 meters apart after their initial struggle. It seems that they recognized each other's strengths and just slowly paced in a circle around each other with their weapons in front, probably ready to parry an oncoming attack from the other.

"Ah man, that was a nice reflex to the trip. What's gonna happen next?"

The fighter with the sword seemed to have the guts to run forward with his sword ready to swing downwards from his head towards the other fighter's head or torso. It looked like an easy hit for the mace wielder, but the mace wielder just side-rolled and ended up 5 meters from the swordsman. They paced again with the sword fighter making a thrust. It was easily dodged by side-stepping and countered with a downwards swing with the mace, but the swordsman anticipated with a followup swing. The swordsman swung his sword horizontally in the direction of the mace fighter's gut, successfully hitting him, too. The swing from the mace wasn't quick enough to block so the fighter was torn apart in the abdomen by the swordsman's blade. He collapsed as he tried to stop the bleeding by clenching his wound.

"Before I see anymore bloodshed, I better got outta here. However, that was a great fight! I gotta practice counter-strikes and follow up maneuvers."

500+/500 Words - D to C-tier Strength Spec