Anvil had barely rushed out of the shack when he saw Kane already confronting Hammer Bone alongside two other believers who had successfully advanced.
[Block]
The warrior believer gripped a longsword seized from the goblins and roared as he stood at the forefront. With his suddenly enhanced strength and fearless stance, he actually managed to take Hammer Bone's heavy blow head-on.
Though the impact drove him stumbling back again and again, splitting the web between his thumb and forefinger, he had ultimately blocked it.
Kane, meanwhile, circled Hammer Bone like a ghost. Every viciously angled slash of his broken blade carved deep marks into Hammer Bone's leather armor, constantly disrupting him at critical moments.
Farther away, the mage believer was protected by the other believers. He raised the hand missing its ring finger and chanted twisted incantations, gathering negative energy into a sickly green ray that shot toward Hammer Bone.
[Weakening Ray]
Hammer Bone flew into a rage, forcibly enduring the Weakening Ray as he fought Kane and the others.
"Roar! Annoying insects!"
After several exchanges, Hammer Bone let out a roar and suddenly erupted with strength. Both hands clenched around his spiked mace, his muscles bulging like chunks of rock as he brought down a crushing, thunderous blow.
"Clang!!!"
Amid the terrifying crash, the longsword in the warrior believer's hand snapped apart. His entire body flew backward as though struck by a catapult stone, blood spraying from his mouth before he slammed heavily onto the ground, unable to rise for a while.
Almost at the same moment, Hammer Bone's seemingly clumsy giant hand shot out with speed utterly unfitting his size and seized the arm of Kane, who had been trying to take the chance to ambush him.
"Got you, little rat!"
Hammer Bone grinned savagely, his other hand