He didn't wait for the other man to finish his defense. He watched his movements just as closely as Arkaeis watched his own, and what his movements revealed was telling. He was fast, for sure, but not as fast as James could be. He watched his eyes, waited until his attention was on the antenna he was catching rather than the man that had thrown it. It was a foolish mistake to assume there would be no follow-up, to leave yourself unprepared for a second defense. He burst forward and covered the distance between them in an instant, while Arkaeis was still focused on the spear, and his right fist drove toward the man's unprotected left side at the same instant the polarity of the void around the spear would be shifting. The blow carried only a fraction of James' full strength, but would be far more than enough to pulverize a granite boulder into little more than dust, which did not bode well for the health of its target should it land.