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Ishmael smirked as he parried with the dagger instead, ducking back before moving forward in a downward slash with his sword. Rather than outright block, he decided to sidestep, putting the sword arm between him and the dagger arm and swinging hard towards the extended sword arm. If the sword was indeed knocked out of his hand, he would follow up with a blow towards his helmeted head, aiming to connect and, if nothing else, dent in the helmet and cause discomfort and injury from the blow before dancing back out of reach. If the sword wasn't lost, he would still just move out of reach rather than try and make another assault so quickly while he was still armed. Either way, Ishmael had decided this was taking too long in a normal one on one fight, and he needed to wrap things up. He heard conflict from Max's direction, so it seemed Sage had engaged after all. Good, more focus on the fight at hand then.

Keeping his wrench in hand, he pulled on a black glove before reaching into his pocket and grabbing a pouch full of something Sage would recognize the moment he used it. The project that was requested of him had left a bit of scrap product so far, shavings from the iron used. By accident, he had found a rather unique property that he would abuse here to end this quickly, if everything went as planned. "Not doing bad, new blood. Let's up the ante, shall we?" Ishmael didn't even care if he sounded like a comic book villain or not, he was going to enjoy this. Quickly withdrawing his hand, he threw up a good handful of Stygian iron shavings, not caring whether anyone approved of this trick or not. He averted his gaze from the shavings, as they did what one would expect of a material used in the underworld. It abruptly devoured the moonlight and starlight in the area above Lucas, casting him in utter darkness. It wasn't permanent or long lasting, but it would do as he circled around Lucas until he was behind him and drove the wrench for the back of his helmeted head, and did try and avoid making the same mistake as before in not watching where he stepped.