Surprising Retreat

Damian slipped the powerful downwards Fire Fist that was aimed to his face, then swiftly with the same movement grabbed onto the arm of the Pyro Mage.

His arm was burning hot, but to Damian, who had a high pain tolerance along with a high resistivity to heat and fire energy, it wasn't something that was unbearable and he rolled backwards.

Damian's grip strength after training in a bow for so long and making sure that both his hands were trained evenly, along with tempering his entire body thoroughly made it so that it was impossible for the Pyro Mage to escape his clutches.

As he rolled backwards, he swung the Pyro Mage who was already striking downwards with as much force as he could muster and the Pyro Mage was helpless, while his companions had no way to help him and didn't even react in time.

Swinging him backwards from his arm and using his own force and momentum against him, Damian slammed the Pyro Mage face-first into the ground behind him.