Magnus isn't convinced of that -- for all his ribbing of Lancelot for all those months that he could defeat him effortlessly (and he might be able to, if he were playing for keeps, but... maybe not, actually?), Lancelot is good. Hanguang-jun is good, too. He can't imagine they're not at the very least evenly matched.
"I wouldn't flip," he says, thoughtfully. "And definitely not back home. Even if I'm fast, everyone else there is, too, and it would make me a bigger target..." Of his hallmates back in Valhalla, Alex was really the only one to ever kill him with any regularity -- flirting, she called it -- but he's pretty sure that even if he practiced a lot, Halfborn could fling one one of his axes or Mallory could hurtle one of her knives in such a way that he'd end up impaled. (They wouldn't. The einherjar of Floor 63 absolutely would, though.)
Which does raise a certain question. "Hanguang-jun, do you mostly fight people who also have swords, or is it more... mixed combat?"
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"I wouldn't flip," he says, thoughtfully. "And definitely not back home. Even if I'm fast, everyone else there is, too, and it would make me a bigger target..." Of his hallmates back in Valhalla, Alex was really the only one to ever kill him with any regularity -- flirting, she called it -- but he's pretty sure that even if he practiced a lot, Halfborn could fling one one of his axes or Mallory could hurtle one of her knives in such a way that he'd end up impaled. (They wouldn't. The einherjar of Floor 63 absolutely would, though.)
Which does raise a certain question. "Hanguang-jun, do you mostly fight people who also have swords, or is it more... mixed combat?"