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He holds his own, though, even without a weapon His strength is fierce, his fury fiercer as he snaps, kicks, and punches at the hellions

Beliel and I kill off the last two local hellions while the two from the Pit hover and watch We deliver our final blows at the sah one, and he snaps the neck of the other

Beliel then backs off, stepping away fro two hellions froh they’re clever, they can’t surround me They don’t even try Instead, they fly to Beliel – slow and unthreatening They chirp at hiers atto ally with him to take me out

I take a couple of steps back with my sword raised I want as o down

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He nods to the hellions There’s no glee in it, just a grim deter that he assessed reater threat over these Pit hellions

The two bat-faced uglies circle around – one above me and one to the side – while Beliel walks forward to stand just out of reach Perfect position to charge me head-on as soon as I’m distracted

If both the hellions had stayed atin a circle and kept all three of them at bay But with one above, I can only cover two directions and be vulnerable to the third

Before I can work out a strategy, teeth and claws coht Beliel holds back, forcingonme from my side At the same time, I’m sure that Beliel will leap onto dive on me, but he holds back

At the saet into e to slice one across the torso and the other across the face, but neither is a killing blow

Beliel chuckles as I go back to my ready stance They all had tried to double-cross each other

If they all had dived on me, I would be dead But if one had betrayed the others by feinting an attack, then I would have probably killed one and maybe injured the other The one who betrayed the others would have had the best chance of being the only survivor

But now they all know that no one can be trusted Their alliance is over

The two Pit hellions fly up in opposite directions as far as the angel doured out that if they stay up there, Beliel and I will have to fight it out on the ground One of us will die, and the other will be tired and easier to kill

Beliel curls his lip in distaste ‘Outhter of Man Insult upon insult’

We get ready to face off, Beliel and I