When I hit the ground I noticed something. The nuns where coming. I only needed to buy a little more time and a distraction so Theseus wouldn't notice them.
So I pretended that I had a hard time crawling up. I could feel the warm blood dripping from my nose. But I didn't wipe it away to keep up the act. Without looking I could tell that the demon was slowly approaching by the slight trembling on the ground every time he took a step.
When I was almost standing I felt its hands closing around my neck like a beartrap around a small bunny who had un knowingly stepped in it.
Theseus lifted me up and brought me close to its face. "Now you understand the difference in our ability's, you better… wait what is that mark on your chest?"
I had waited for Theseus to approach me so I could strike. But the confusion caused by my mark gave me an even easier target. What would you do when facing a opponent that is faster as well as stronger than you? As long as the battle isn't for honour, you will have to do everything you can to win. That includes dirty tricks like this.
Fast as lightning I struck its left eye. Theseus roared from the pain and dropped me while reaching to the hole in its face where once had been its eye. I used this moment to slash at its side. Its hands were in front of its head and the chest was to heavily armoured for me to cause damage in such a quick moment. So, I aimed for the spot I could reach that would hinder its movements the most.
With luck on my side I scratched open its left side before Theseus kicked me in the chest.
I gasped for air as I heard a snapping sound and landed a few metered away from the demon. I could barely breathe and every movement hurt.
("Did I break something?!")
I had broken my left arm once. I could barely move it during the time it took to heal. This pain reminded me of that.
Theseus drew closer in merely an instant. While the demon hit me in the face I managed to rip open its muscular arm. The flesh was a lot more tough than that of any creature I had faced before. Thus the wounds weren't deep. I felt like that if the attack had come slightly more from left it would have dislocated my jaw.
I jumped up. What placed me slightly above Theseus. When I came back down I attempted to scratch the demon further open with the claws located on my feet. However, the demon had somehow predicted this movement and grabbed my leg. Only to throw me to the ground.
Once again I felt the air slip out of my lungs. Breathing became even harder.
But that didn't matter now. when I stood up, prepared to either evade or attack, I saw the nuns exiting the forest carrying the remaining holy items.
They were a bit stunned when they saw the fight between demons. One of them nearly fainted from pure fear.
Now that the demon was distracted by its wounds, I quickly stretched out my consciousness to Gwen who had just entered my line of sight.
("Gwen I will try to stop the demons movements. When I do so you need to attack it with the holy items!")
I retracted my consciousness before Theseus noticed what I did. Even from this distance I could see the scared and confused expression on Gwen's face. But I only nodded in an attempt to reassure her that it was me that talked to her.
Then Theseus charged at me again. due to my wounds I couldn't doge this time and took the attack head on. Again I stumbled over. Theseus pridefully walked towards me. "Now, now. I can't have you die here. I need to know who made that interesting mark. A true masterpiece indeed."
I gave the demon an angry glare, but I couldn't do much. I was surprised to see Gwen and the other nuns run towards us.
("Shit, can't they see that Theseus is still able to move freely?")
I needed to stop the demon as quick as possible. But my body had a hard time moving and the only magic I could use at this point was making illusions.
I decided to just try it since I could do nothing else. With the image of the blue fire still in mind I made a fake replica. I pretended to spit out fire and then control it.
The demon was a little confused why I didn't use fire at the beginning of the fight but still tried to hit me. Tough more careful not to touch the fake flames.
I was really glad with that reaction since it would give me less hits and as long as Theseus didn't touch the illusionary flames the demon would probably not notice that they were actually not there.
But it still kept me wondering. (" Why doesn't Theseus notice that there is no heat radiating from these flames?")
I shoot some fake flame arrows at Theseus and the demon evaded them as expected. I used this opportunity to with the last remaining strength I had in me to dash forward and slice the back of its right knee with my claws. When the leg could no longer carry the weight of Theseus I kicked the demon from behind and stood on its head in order to hold Theseus down.
If I wasn't as badly wounded as I was now I would have finished the job right now myself. But the truth was that I could barely stay awake at this point.
Luckily the nuns had just arrived and they tried to kill the demon by placing the holy items on its neck until its head was burned of by the holy energy contained in these items.
At this moment I could no longer stay awake due to my severe injuries. The presence of so many exposed holy items didn't help at all.
At least I managed to lay down on my own instead of falling over.