I continued walking toward him, step by step, while staring directly into his open eye.
"You've got some nerve. You weakling, you'd better be careful. One single look into my eye, and you'll become my slave," he said, grinning as widely and murderously as I had ever seen anyone grin.
"But..." he said, straightening himself completely.
"You are a very strong warrior. That contradicts your shabby appearance. I don't want to make you my slave. It's been a long time since I've had a fight against someone who could keep up with me. And above all, no one except me has ever been able to deflect Odin's spear."
Odin's spear? What was that supposed to mean...?
"Yes. I was the one who took Odin's mighty spear from him," he said as he now started walking toward me as well.
"Then get your spear and fight me fairly," I said, changing my direction. I walked toward his spear, picked it up, and looked at it closely. It was very beautiful, but this weapon didn't speak to me. It still saw the Viking as its owner.
Slowly, I walked toward him and placed the spear directly into his hand. I jumped backward and grinned at him.
"Then show me what you ca—"
Before I could even finish my sentence, I saw the spear directly in front of my face. Everything became as slow as before. He had thrown it with such incredible speed...?
I struck the spear with my scimitar again, but this time, it didn't move an inch. The spear was moving so fast that I couldn't redirect it anymore. I stepped to the side and once again noticed that time was returning to normal. I heard the familiar voice in my head again.
"You have unlocked Divine Sense."
Divine Sense, then. That must have been the ability that made me perceive time as slower.
But as I thought about the ability, I didn't even notice that the Viking was already gone. He was standing behind me, the spear in his hand. He swung at me with tremendous force, but I managed to block his attack with my scimitar at the last second.
"You're not getting me that easily," I said, laughing at him.
But when he attacked a second time, I didn't notice that time had slowed down...