How Monsters do Battle 6

The San-Baka for the next five minutes took turns in attacking, getting demolished, and taking a break. Tino who started the match absolutely dominating felt a shiver of fear slowly creeping up on him. Originally his Aura protected him from everything, his attacks turning the bastards into bloody pulps.

But the longer the battle went on, little by little the tables started to shift. The Impetus was the [Straight Pierce] of Aurum. Everything started to go downhill from there.

In the beginning, there was such a big leeway that Tino didn't even bother to use his defensive skills. However, when his armor and defenses started to get breached he began to think otherwise.

'It is not my imagination, their blows are starting to hurt a lot more. What's worse is it's like they are using me for combat practice. The moves that originally worked on them are now getting countered without fail. What the hell is this?'