Hearing the other speak has Ignis nod in acknowledgement. "Thank you kindly. And you've quite the grace and skill with your weapon there." The green eyes then have a pointed look at the metal pipe.

Another rat came up and the royal advisor dispatched it easily enough, and as the blade pulled back, he looked around.

"Hopefully that's the last of them for awhile."

He doubted it, but it was easier to fight taller things and inflict multiple hits than stay and fight small creatures on the ground. But so far he hadn't seen anything that fit that description as of yet and it was almost disconcerting.