Demiurge - Claws and Speed

As the situation continued to evolve rapidly in the space of a few blinks, Remedios had closed their distance and swung her Holy Sword down diagonally.

Jaldabaoth jumped aside and used his tentacle-like wings—Or maybe they really are tentacles?—to hurl the bodies of the impaled adventurers at her.

She had no interest in catching them.

Removing her left hand from the hilt of the sword and punching them aside, she simultaneously used a martial art—“Flow Acceleration!”—to swoop in. Then she lunged.

The Holy Sword she’d thrust toward his throat was parried with nails that had lengthened instantaneously—

“Holy Attack!”

The moment her sword connected with the claws, her power flooded into him through the blade.

This skill paladins gained early on was really supposed to be used when their sword cut deep into their opponent’s flesh, but it was still possible to use even with a glancing blow. The holy energy would bubble away on the surface of their target’s body, so the damage wasn’t terribly high, but the reason she used it anyway was that her instincts as a paladin—“animal instincts,” her sister called them—screamed at her to prevent a fall in morale by demonstrating they still had a way to fight Jaldabaoth even after all those adventurers were killed.

“I see…”

The angels positioned themselves between Jaldabaoth, who had jumped back farther, and Remedios.

Floating at nearly her height, they attacked Jaldabaoth.

Tch, Remedios clicked her tongue.

The high-pitched metallic noise that had rung out when her Holy Sword clashed with Jaldabaoth’s claws told her how hard they were. And though her form hadn’t been perfect, the fact that he could easily parry her boosted attack spoke to his physical strength.

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Volume 12, Chapter 1.4