Dunn turned toward Talen's position to engage with a follow-up attack, but he noticed the Grand Magus was no longer there.
Nor anywhere at all.
What he didn't realize was that his view had already been distorted to see things a few seconds later than when they actually happened.
"View Warp," Talen whispered.
And with that in play, Talen had already closed the distance by warping his position to achieve the effect of teleportation.
He reappeared at Dunn's blind spot with the aim to drive the tip of his katana right through Dunn's back.
But the blade met an invisible barrier around Dunn's body.
The katana snapped on impact and Talen's eyes widened in shock.
At the same moment, Dunn's view of things corrected back into order and he reacted on instinct, vanishing from his spot and reappeared several meters away, still on air.
A grin spread across Dunn's face as he stretched both hands out to his sides.
