Balter faced his enemy with a blade made from its soul ready to chop Amal to pieces when given the chance as a moment of silence filled the area, both monsters started to get tense from the lack of noise as they glared at each other.
But eventually, a loose rock from the ceiling fell and landed on the ground with a crisp TAK TAK TAK that echoed, this acted as the signal for them to start, from the sudden dash of Amal Cracks form on the floor as its weight shook the ground a little with every step of the way as pebbles and small stones on the ground bounced up in sync with its movement, this was the common tactic the monster used to break his enemies form/stance that they held.
Something that Amal used on Balter before which resulted in the loss of an arm and leg!
As the weaker the form/stance the less power they could bring out while it worked well against regular people, the Elder goat man, however, wasn't like regular people it had the passive skill 'blade mastery' so common tricks won't work on it a second time!
Balter widened his stance and lowered its body to wait for the perfect time to deliver its attack!
By the time Amal raised its arm to deliver a hammer fist a whip-like kick sent its head upward which confused it for a bit as the scenery suddenly changed before another kick landed on its throat!
The misshapen had to abandon its attack before it grabbed its throat thanks to the constricting feeling it had and unable to breathe While Balter quickly had his blade dig into the monster's flesh through the side of the rib cage hoping to ruin its lungs and possibly the heart too, as the blade grew in length and exited through the other side.
The pain made Amal make a muffled roar of agony before activating its lightning ability no longer caring for the consequences of what might happen if it did so as a coat of lightning covered its body, burned its internal injuries nad zapped Balter into the nearby wall crashing heavily into it while in a daze.
Amal fell to the ground struggling to breathe as it coughed up blood and burnt flesh out of its lungs heaving loudly with every breathe becoming harder to maintain!
The monster pressed a hand on the entry wound then removed its hand to look at whether if it was bleeding still with some traces of blood still as it had forgotten it wasn't even 10 second from when it received the wound, before its face warped in more anger with its fangs showing with a death glare towards the Culprit of its injury then started coughing again!
Its eyes blurred but it was still looking for Balter as once it managed to complete the promotion ritual all of its injuries would be healed!
The elder goat-man struggled to climb out of the wall with a few bones sticking out of his torso and the ulna and radius of its remaining fleshly arm had passed the pinky showing the extent of the damage that he received, but he was still capable of fighting and moving just not with the same finesse as before.
He Bleated angrily at the Misshapen that was struggling to get to its feet too now Amal opted not to use its lightning skill again unless necessary while trying to get one of the skulls on its back to eat.
Balter ignored the pain in its chest as it crouched down then used its leap skill to propel itself towards Amal as they collided just that in this case the whip kick failed but it did manage to give Amal's face a good knee, hopefully, that will help it stand up straight~(not really)
Unfortunately for the Misshapen, this caused it to drop its snack and fall to the ground as well as lose an eye that literally exploded under the attack before Amal rolled on the ground a bit thanks to the additional pain then grew even angrier as it started using its other lightning skills to fire out some projectiles made from lightning wildly all over the place while finally getting to its feet.
While Balter felt something crack from his erratic movement which made him sprawl to the ground while clutching his chest in pain.
both monsters were on their feet/hooves at this point, luckily for balter the promotion ritual Barred any other creature from interfering with their fight or the crowd of monsters that were watching outside would've attacked right now with it being the best time to do so.
Thanks to Balter being connected to Walter spiritually the man's stats and natural recovery helped the elder goat-man recover a bit, something that many monsters lacked was the ability to recover passively, they needed to consume others or something to jumpstart their natural recovery one of the reasons why the stronger the monster the more minions/food they had around them.
The time they waited to somewhat recover was about an hour as Amal the headhunter was eating one of the heads spiked on its back, It thought that it had outsmarted its foe as the only reason why it collected the skulls of its prey was to help it last in any future rituals!
Since no other monster can enter the boundary of the fight they are unable to recover like they always did in regular hunts this method allowed it to prevail over many monsters.
As Amal got to its feet with a large disgusting smirk formed on its face it looked at its enemy thinking that things will be just like always waiting for them to tire themselves out then feed on their despair and flesh while unable to defend themselves.
But the imagination it had didn't come true a look of surprise and disbelief on Amal's face now.
Balter was already on its feet ready with its blade while it seemed tired it lacked the labored breathe any monster would have from getting electrocuted and sent flying into a wall with more than a few broken bones.
The Misshapen snorted in annoyance as it assumed that this one was just acting tough, or was actually slightly better than the rest it'll fall eventually as it had over 20 more skulls on its back as well as the protruding pieces of bone made it obvious that there was still a high chance of it claiming victory yet again!
It released a growl as some of the internal injuries were doing a lot better before beginning its next choice of attack before spitting out a white orb made of lightning with incredible speed headed towards Balter!