With her somewhat uncanny ability, Milia soon gained the upper hand in her battle against Riful.
Though she was still a long way from killing the "West Abyss," she could keep her firmly pinned down.
Elsewhere, Clare used her High-Speed Sword technique alongside Helen, who had mastered devastating slashes, to lock down Dauf, whose entire body had been reinforced until it was harder than steel. They targeted the joints his armor could not cover, preventing him from interfering with the other Claymores.
Meanwhile, Galadria, Fūrola, and the other elite fighters pressed their advantage, subjecting Isley, who had expended the most energy and was already somewhat exhausted, to a righteous group beating.
In barely a dozen minutes, they had reduced the Silver King to a bedraggled figure on the verge of defeat.
There was nothing he could do!
He had fought too hard earlier, wasting far too much life energy against the Dark Twins and the Abyss Devourers. Now he could not even fully withstand the Claymore Warriors' slashes.
At his peak, Isley would not even have needed to dodge. He could simply have taken their attacks head-on.
The destructive power Galadria and Fūrola displayed was nowhere near enough to break through the defense formed by the life energy surrounding his body.
Now, however, he had to drag his enormous centaur body around like a beaten dog, trying to stave off defeat and death with a running battle.
Whenever they cornered him, he inevitably suffered a host of frightening-looking wounds.
If there was one phrase to describe him, it was "at the end of his rope."
Gradually, Isley began to run out of stamina. His wounds regenerated far more slowly, with some remaining unhealed even after seven or eight minutes, and his movements and reactions grew increasingly sluggish.
With Galadria, an