The longsword, as a battlefield weapon, requires much more in terms of application techniques and maintenance compared to war hammers and axes.
Therefore, by general battlefield standards, it isn't really suitable to be a soldier's main weapon.
Geralt now had a firsthand experience of this fact.
In the hurried clash with the enemy just now, he failed to maintain the proper angle, resulting in his Wolven School basic steel sword not only getting chipped, but also causing nearly a quarter of its blade to deviate in direction from the rest of the blade.
The accumulated damage had left the blade's edge misaligned!
The edge is crucial for slash-type weapons to exert their lethality.
Simply put, it's the ability to control the angle at which the blade strikes the target. An inexperienced swordsman might end up hitting an enemy with the flat of the blade or sword rather than cutting into them.
"Damn it!"
