Two Minutes

"You come again to challenge me?" she said, her expression sour.

Warden nodded. "Didn't I tell you to wait for me?"

"You did," she said, eating her orange, looking disinterested. "But I'm not in the mood to fight right now."

Warden frowned. "If you don't fight me, can I just climb up to the top?"

The woman shrugged.

Warden didn't know if this was a trap or not, but he did not plan on skipping this checkpoint. While he would like to climb to the summit, he couldn't deny the amount of improvement he made fighting Karim and Ovium.

The woman appeared elusive to him now, but after he unravelled her enigma, Warden would reach a notch higher in skills.

Thunder crackled in the gathering clouds as lightning burst somewhere close to them. The woman didn't even waver, while Warden had his undivided attention on her.

"Good thing one doesn't need to be in the mood to fight," Warden said as he took his stance.