Tal didn't get a chance to learn if his threat with the knife worked or not. He'd been pushing forward against Noah, and when the Sentinel suddenly backed up the courier was left with nothing to brace against. With a stifled yelp he started to fall forward, losing his balance even as the demigod was bringing his weapon around.
He barely knew what hit him as the spear came up beneath his chin and knocked his teeth together, lifting him up and back, stunned even before the dome erupted outward and blasted him back into the snow.
Tal lay groaning from the combined seventy-seven and a half points of damage he'd taken in the course of seconds, but the spear didn't seem to have done more than knocked him a bit silly. The dome had done him the most damage by far, his Vest barely blocking half of the harm of the divine power, and this time the courier stayed down and contemplated the sky from his new resting place.
He barely knew what hit him as the spear came up beneath his chin and knocked his teeth together, lifting him up and back, stunned even before the dome erupted outward and blasted him back into the snow.
Tal lay groaning from the combined seventy-seven and a half points of damage he'd taken in the course of seconds, but the spear didn't seem to have done more than knocked him a bit silly. The dome had done him the most damage by far, his Vest barely blocking half of the harm of the divine power, and this time the courier stayed down and contemplated the sky from his new resting place.
