Western Tower [3]

"Gahhh," Aurelia was sent tumbling into a nearby building when Minotaur charged her, she felt her bones cracking as she rolled at high speeds, almost collapsing a rackety wooden structure.

Before she could get her bearing the Minotaur charged at her, his fist colliding with her armor, sending her reeling back before the Minotaur appeared above her.

She raised her sword above her head before Minotaur's first collided with the blade, bending it out of shape.

"Well, I am in deep shit now. Arent I..." Aurelia looked at the crocked blade with a saddened expression plastered on her face.

"Where is that smirk you had earlier, little girl?" Minotaur spoke mockingly as it charged again. The next hit shattering the blade and sending Aurelia to tumble once again.

The Minotaur jumped back, its whole body steaming.

Aurelia stood up, supporting herself on a nearby wooden structure.

"I will still win..." Aurelia spoke confidently, despite her face being a bloody mess.

"Aghahahahah, I do love myself a lively woman." Minotaur primed himself for another charge, easily shattering the wooden building.

Aurelia rolled as she cast [Lesser Heal] on herself, she glanced at the shattered blade.

Her bones cracked into place as the spell took effect, and her bruises and cuts closed.

'[Holy Strike] is out of the question it seems...'

She was out of the options, a single hit like this from a Minotaur would have killed her with a mere graze in the past, yet now she was tanking a hit after hit, despite Minotaur apparently not going all out.

The Minotaur charged at her once again. Fortunately for Aurelia, the only two moves the Minotaur used were Charge and Punch, which allowed her to use her buffed speed to avoid it, although it was barely.

'I might be able to dodge this, but I need a way to damage him.' Aurelia looked over the battlefield, not many things could be used as weapons.

Wooden splinters certainly wouldn't be enough as she looked over the demihuman gang. Their daggers would also be out of the question, as this Minotaur's hide was as strong as steel. If she tried to approach too close, she would be pummeled to death.

She jumped out of the way again.

"If you surrender, I will let you be my concubine. My collection has women of all races, from Harpies to minotaurs and all other kinds of species!" The minotaur grinned as he offered, his gaze piercing Aurelia's spirit as he charged once again.

"No thanks!" She jumped up above the Minotaur once again, dodging his now predictable attacks.

"A shame, that wasn't a question." As she landed Minotaur managed to grab her and throw her against a wooden pillar, shattering it and collapsing the wooden structure on her.

[Lesser Heal] Aurelia healed once again, using the dust of the shattered building to escape and find a window to strike at the Minotaur.

She gripped her shattered blade as she charged at the minotaur, with him clearly not expecting her to charge.

Aurelia activated [Holy Strike] as she used all her strength to stab the minotaur, alas [Holy Strike] failed to activate. It required a weapon in hand after all but she needed to bet on it.

Blade got stuck in the fur of the minotaur before a punch knocked her back into the squad of inactive Angels.

"I bit more than I can chew..." Aurelia coughed up blood before activating [Lesser Heal], her wounds were accumulating too much. [Lesser Heal] wouldn't be enough soon.

She glanced at one of the Guardian Angels, they had their weapons. "Can I borrow your mace, sir Angel?" she asked politely.

Fortunately for her Guardian Angel did not question her words but merely handed over the mace.

As she gripped it she was astonished by its weight.

It was like she held a cubic block of gold on a stick. Even with buffed power, she could nearly wield it.

"How do these summons wield this with such ease..." Her confidence shattered, she considered herself pretty powerful, and yet these summons wielded such immense weights with a single hand.

'They are Cedric's summons, I don't need to question it...' She blushed as the Minotaur charged once again, crashing into Angels and yet they were not scratched or moved at all.

Its whole body glowed red for a moment as it roared like a beast.

Minotaur seemed to have lost his mind as he entered something akin to Berserker's rage, its attacks grew more powerful and wild, and yet.

"Predictable." Minotaur buried its right hand's fist in the ground elbow-deep as Aurelia dodged.

Just as he was about to pull the arm out and continue the attack.

CRUNCH-

Bone shattered and flesh was ripped apart.

[Holy Strike], skill activated imbuing the mace with even more power as it collapsed onto Minotaur's elbow, severing the hand almost effortlessly.

As the mace was heavy, Aurelia did not have time to move, Minotaur used his other hand to throw a punch at her, making her let go of the weapon as she gasped for air.

'This punch was even more powerful than ones before...' She gasped for air while reeling from pain, [Lesser Heal] her wounds closed, and yet the skill was less effective each time she used it.

Her armor was in ruins, and this Minotaur was not even her target.

"I can't let Cedric down before even reaching my objective..." She looked at the mace, still buried in the ground next to the Minotaur's severed hand.

The berserker minotaur charged her again, its attacks even more predictable as it lost its arm.

Aurelia quickly discarded her armor as she dodged another heavy attack, Minotaur gave no sense of stopping its onslaught and yet it was easy to dodge such a predictable opponent despite power difference.

A single hit would most certainly knock her out.

She rolled under Minotaur's legs grabbing the mace, while holding the mace she would be considerably slower, but it was her only way to beat this opponent.

Another strike swished right next to her face as she spun her body to hit the Minotaur's body with the mace. [Holy Strike].

The Minotaur reeled as the strike tore a chunk of his body, cauterizing the bleeding in holy fire.

Its berserker rage ended as it realized how much of a danger he was in.

Its calm mind returned once more as the Minotaur screamed in pain, its colossal body fell forward exposing its head.

With a swing of Angel's mace, Aurelia Crushed the head of the gang Boss.

Aurelia fell backward while exhaling, "It is done... I thought I was a goner."

Other gang members were horrified, the moment the 'Boss' had fallen they dispersed, not wanting to draw the ire of someone who had beaten the 'Boss'.