At least Mandragora weren't particularly tough enemies on their own once the screaming was dealt with and Lydia should have no trouble taking them out on her own. It was just finding the little critters in the underbrush as they were quite small; poisonous too if she didn't keep her wits about her.
The bigger problem -literally- to Sephiroth was that as he continued to dance around the Golem avoiding its heavy punches where he could, he couldn't keep too much of a good eye on Lydia's position or even give much of a thought to defending her if she were struggling. A ranged, multi-target spell or something would be helpful but he were too busy using his close-quarters job; the new SOLDIER one, to give very much thought to what Scholar skills he could help with.
It was very much a give-and-take fight, frustrating a little in the fact that Sephiroth knew if he'd been equipped with his stronger Warrior job the Golem wouldn't have posed so much of a threat. The difficulty came from urging the muscles in his body to remember technique that he had used all of his life as opposed to the adjusted versions he'd made thanks to the difference in Warrior. Mako-strength, though powerful, was a task in itself to control and kept throwing his balance off especially with the weight of the Golem's punches that came in.
On one such occasion, Sephiroth overstretched with a parry and the Golems opposite arm came up, right up with a heft of a noise, into the middle of his chest. It knocked the wind from him instantly, Masamune flung a few feet away as the Sephiroth's frame heavily fell back a foot and hit the ground. The moment of being stunned was short, and frantically he felt around for if his sword had fallen nearby -which it hadn't really- drawing laboured breaths as he tried to will that crushed feeling inside him away.
The Golem, seeing it's opportunity, began to shuffle closer, pulling it's arm back-
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The bigger problem -literally- to Sephiroth was that as he continued to dance around the Golem avoiding its heavy punches where he could, he couldn't keep too much of a good eye on Lydia's position or even give much of a thought to defending her if she were struggling. A ranged, multi-target spell or something would be helpful but he were too busy using his close-quarters job; the new SOLDIER one, to give very much thought to what Scholar skills he could help with.
It was very much a give-and-take fight, frustrating a little in the fact that Sephiroth knew if he'd been equipped with his stronger Warrior job the Golem wouldn't have posed so much of a threat. The difficulty came from urging the muscles in his body to remember technique that he had used all of his life as opposed to the adjusted versions he'd made thanks to the difference in Warrior. Mako-strength, though powerful, was a task in itself to control and kept throwing his balance off especially with the weight of the Golem's punches that came in.
On one such occasion, Sephiroth overstretched with a parry and the Golems opposite arm came up, right up with a heft of a noise, into the middle of his chest. It knocked the wind from him instantly, Masamune flung a few feet away as the Sephiroth's frame heavily fell back a foot and hit the ground. The moment of being stunned was short, and frantically he felt around for if his sword had fallen nearby -which it hadn't really- drawing laboured breaths as he tried to will that crushed feeling inside him away.
The Golem, seeing it's opportunity, began to shuffle closer, pulling it's arm back-