It was a good response to an unknown, at least in his book, and against most mortals, or anything less than a dragon or something that could take a dragon, it likely would have worked. Against him in his construct guise, he simply batted the three blows aside with his palm, using a micro layer of force energy to prevent it from scratching the armor, and then vanished from in front of her, reappearing behind her. He stomped once, before making his 'greeting' attack, an overhead, one handed swing, forgetting for a moment that it wasn't his personal great mace, and leaving a fairly nice dent in the ground as she managed to get out of the way of the attack. He gave the weapon a slightly confused head tilt, before shaking his head, and moving to a proper two handed grip, this time moving first, putting her fully on the defensive as he made his weapon dance like it was a rapier, not a nearly thirty pound blunted weapon meant for crushing with single, mighty blows.