Dorrn set himself and lunged forward, swinging his axe twice as fast and twice as hard. The Demon tried to dodge, but the boost in power seemed to be too much for it, and it was caught by a sharp swing that cut a deep gash in its side. It backed up, looking defensive and calculating, as if trying to memorize everything about its opponent.
Dorrn didn't seem to care, though. His blows came in a flurry so fast I could barely follow them. The Demon also seemed to have trouble keeping up with them, cuts and wounds forming all across its body.
It seemed to realize that it couldn't beat Dorrn like this, and it also seemed to realize who had made him so much stronger.
Its eyes locked onto Feiya and it made a mad dash toward her, rushing straight past Dorrn. Feiya shot two hunks of stone at the beast, but it ducked and weaved through them, tackling her to the ground in a split second. It reared back and clawed at her stomach once, twice, three times before she cast a Spell that blasted it off in an explosion of flame.
Her Health pool seemed to have protected her from the first swipe, but hers wasn't nearly as large as that of a Berserker Class, and the next two left long lacerations across her torso. They didn't seem to be fatal, but she was obviously in a lot of pain, clutching at the wounds and groaning as she attempted to push herself to her feet.
The Demon's luck ran out, though, as Dorrn caught up to it while it lay on the ground, stunned from Feiya's fiery blast. He unceremoniously brought his axe down with a grunt, severing the beast's legs from its torso and stepping down on its chest.
"It's Level 14, Arlan!" He called out, "Come on over!"
I rushed over. "Is Feiya gonna be okay? Those cuts look bad."
"I will be fine," Feiya coughed. "Just kill it and we can go home."
I looked down at the demon. It seemed dazed, probably from the intense pain of being blown up and then bisected. At least I'd be putting it out of its misery. I raised my sword and chopped down at its neck, decapitating the Demon as its head rolled–
Dorrn and Feiya crept toward the two-horned Demon, taking care to stay silent, while I hid behind a tree, head poking out so I could watch the fight. The monster's back was still to us as– wait. Two-horned? It didn't have any horns at all on its bare head.
Why did I think it did? Did they disappear or some– oh, shit! The Demon turned around and lunged toward Dorrn, catching him off-guard and swiping at his head with its claws. He brought up his battleaxe to defend, but was a bit too slow, getting knocked across the head and stumbling to the side.
However, even if Dorrn was caught off-guard, his armor and Endurance Stat would protect him from any attack the Demon could throw at him. But wait, the Demon was completely ignoring Dorrn.
It sidestepped the stunned man and headed straight for Feiya. I mean, judging from the fights I'd watched them have with previous monsters, that would objectively be the right play – Feiya relied on Dorrn's protection to cover for her relatively weak defensive options – but how could the Demon have known that?
She threw out a few stone projectiles at the Demon as it approached her, but it seemed to be expecting just that, dodging and deflecting them as they came.
It tackled her to the ground, swiping at her unarmored torso a few times before she cast a Spell that caused an explosion, flinging the Demon back. But it landed on its feet, somehow prepared for her Spell.
Just then, Dorrn finally reached it and swung at its back with his battleaxe, but the Demon turned around at the perfect time, and deflected the axe with its claws.
It swiped at Dorrn a few more times, aiming perfectly for the gaps in his armor as if it already knew where they all were. Feiya launched another chunk of rock at the Demon from behind, but it ducked without even looking, allowing the stone to continue in its path and hit Dorrn square in the face, knocking him backwards.
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The Demon turned back to Feiya, who had to have been running low on Mana at this point, and rushed at her again, seeming intent to finish her off.
It swiped at her over and over, slicing gash after gash into her stomach and chest, but it seemed she didn't have enough Mana to cast another explosion Spell. Magic-Type Classes couldn't use any sort of melee weapon, either, so she was defenseless.
However, Dorrn soon recovered, and swung at the frenzied Demon with his axe. It seemed that it had gotten too focused on Feiya, because it didn't even notice the weapon bearing down on it until it was too late.
Dorrn cut a huge slice down the Demon's back, and then grabbed it and threw it aside. It tumbled across the dirt while Dorrn bent over to check on Feiya, who was in much worse condition. The entire front of her body was torn to shreds. She kneeled on the ground, coughing up blood and breathing raspily.
"Get behind me," Dorrn ordered Freiya, putting a hand out to protect her as he stepped forward. "Do you have enough Mana for a buff Spell?"
"N-no." Feiya managed to get out.
Dorrn took a deep breath and hefted his axe. "Okay. I'll get us out of this."
The Demon had already gotten back to its feet during their conversation, standing tall once again despite the massive wound on its back. It tore forth, seeming energized by the felling of one of its enemies.
It swiped madly at Dorrn while also dodging and weaving through Dorrn's own counterattacks as though it'd already memorized the man's fighting style.
The Berserker was obviously losing the fight, taking hit after hit. His Health must have been running dry, but he was putting his all into the fight. He swung his battleaxe at the Demon in a wild attempt to kill the beast, but it blocked the strike, stopping the axe in its tracks.
It twisted the weapon from Dorrn's hands, grabbing it and flying back out of the man's striking range. Then, it twisted its arm and flung the axe at Dorrn. He dodged, but didn't account for the woman lying behind him.