Seeing the sword approaching so swiftly, even Jash was startled at first, and his brain couldn't react in time.
Thankfully, his body was fully active after fighting for so long and reacted on its own before he could think of anything.
It all happened in the blink of an eye as Jash leaned back and let himself fall to the ground but he reacted at the correct time.
—Trrng!
His sword clashed with Helios's and he used the moment of contact to kick Helios in the shin in order to not fall to the ground completely.
After all, even he would need more than a second to get up and that would be detrimental when he was completely surrounded.
There was no way he could escape unscathed and did get some minor flesh wounds, but they weren't even noticed.
All the attention was on his sudden and instinctive movements as if he had decades of battlefield experience and nothing could stop him.