@dualwho Asked " don't come any further, that's close enough. "
The mage had dealt with zombies before, it was almost a rite of passage at this point. However fighting ones like these were... difficult. Like him, they healed as he fought them, meaning only completely destroying them was the only way to actually keep them dead. To this end the mage had changed his load out, mostly fire to erase them to ash.
Although it took him time, he did manage to deal with the group that had stumbled into him, leaving nothing but ashes and a very exhausted mage. It was in this exhausted state that he had seen the next thing come running towards him. A fireball is sent in his direction, exhausted as he was, and seemingly as skilled as the thing was, the fireball merely explodes a few feet away from him. Still with enough force to slam the man, perhaps not off of his feet, but enough to hurt.
Sidereal was about to throw the next fireball when the words came out to him. It earned the desired result, the mage freezing as he tried to focus on the man in front of, fire wreathing his hand as he stands panting with his eyes on the man. "Who... What... Are... You..." Had he misjudged? Was it a human?
