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It may come to the murloc's surprise, then, that Iosef didn't appear behind the man for the first few seconds.

It wouldn't come to the man's surprise, one would suppose, that Iosef came in swinging his blade (both hands on the sword) at the murloc's knees from behind.  Steel armor or not, the murloc's joints would have a good banging.  Once that was that, Iosef simply slammed the blade at the murloc's neck, repeating the same swing as he did when he used to forge large farm implements.