[ Slowly, Ryo gets back up on his feet, his legs unsteady and a hand pressed to the wound on his abdomen. It hurts like a thousand knives cutting into his flesh, but there's surprisingly little blood—his pendant did that, he assumes. It didn't completely heal him up like he had hoped it would in the event of a mortal injury, but it seems to have mitigated it. ]
Nghh... [ Gritting his teeth, he glares at the guardian with a positively frigid look that makes the blue of his eyes seem like ice. The creature's only response is to lunge at him, claws and appendages ready to finish him off this time—
—but then something sparkles like gold and a sudden bolt of lightning cuts through the air, knocking the guardian halfway across the clearing. ]
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Nghh... [ Gritting his teeth, he glares at the guardian with a positively frigid look that makes the blue of his eyes seem like ice. The creature's only response is to lunge at him, claws and appendages ready to finish him off this time—
—but then something sparkles like gold and a sudden bolt of lightning cuts through the air, knocking the guardian halfway across the clearing. ]