Battle with the beast (Part 1)

In my situation, anyone else would probably either panic or just burned through his entire strength in a single attack, hoping to change his fate by going all in.

But that wouldn't yield any results.

This beast was simply too strong for me to overcome even the sheer resilience of its body with random attacks, not to speak about any other defences that it was bound to possess with such level of strength. 

Only by keeping my calm, playing it tactically and perfectly managing my mana and spells would I stand any chance of winning this battle!

But before I would even start preparing my spells so that at least at the beginning I would have an edge, I raised my eyes to look right in the beast's snout.

"Would you mind giving me one more moment?"

My main problem right now lay in my lack of means to support Eve, for as long as I was confined to the space of the arena.