The panther looked to be in much worse shape though, acting much more cautious to Alex than the Mutant class beast did. This just went to show the clear difference between Ordinary class and Mutant class.
The third beast, a multi-limbed insectoid abomination, skittered toward Alex with blinding speed. Its razor like legs slashed at him with a whirlwind of strikes, forcing Alex to go on the defensive. Sparks flew as Virtue's Edge met its attack, with Alex carefully making sure to parry each strike without letting any hit him.
He could see the clearly poison laced pincers it weilded, and Alex wasn't willing to find out what getting afflicted with that felt like.
Caius watched from a distance, smiling as he watched Alex struggle and focus heavily on not trying to get hit by the slew of attacks from his beasts.