Take your text and make a copy of it. Now move the original text to the back of page and lay the sword on top of it. Take the copy text and place it on top of other text and sword to the front of the page. It will help if you change the top text to a different color so you can see it better, now convert to curves. Move or delete the nodes where you want the sword to show. The bottom text will fill in behind the sword so you don't need to be exact when moving the nodes. When you have the sword and bottom text showing where you want change the color of the top to the same as the bottom and it should all blend in.