Sheer strength

Yakov knew that he was going to die, the mountain golem despite its ugly appearance was smarter than he thought.  As he looked at the big stone palm that was heading in his direction, he understood that today he might die watching all his plans fall right in front of him. But he didn't want to die—— not so easily at least, he wanted to fight and if he was going to go down today then he wanted to take this beast down with him, there was no way he was going to let this thing go just like that.