SOLVED. Dystopian Fantasy - Protagonist was a fighter using two sticks. [s]

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I read this book in the early 1980's. I remember tiny bits like the protagonist going on a Conan-like journey. He was so strong that in one part he was fighting a very fast man with two very sharp (feather edged) knives and it described the scene as the knives not being able to get through the gristle in his neck. He had plastic armour plates under his skin.
I remember the two sticks as his primary weapons and he carried them on his back. He also used other ones but those were his "signature" weapons. He was a gladiator of sorts travelling around fighting in arenas.

Please help.

[Ky]

Could it be Var the Stick, which is the middle volume of the Battle Circle trilogy by Piers Anthony? All three novels are in a post-apocalyptic future in which people have regressed to a more violent and nomadic culture.

Battle Circle is available on archive.org so you can read it for free to see if it might be your book. You need only an email to make an account.

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That's it!!!!!! You are awesome! Thank you!