The Earth Spirit ducked beneath a swipe of my dagger and actually punched upwards into my wrist, its sharpened fists breaking through the skin and cutting into my flesh to give me my first wound.
Thankfully the monster was so small because otherwise this could have been really bad; already it was a sharp, hot pain that flared up in my wrist and 'shocked' my hands, causing my fingers to lose a little strength which almost caused me to drop my weapon.
Having two little holes in my wrist certainly wasn't a fun thing to have happen to me, but it could have been much worse; with the adrenaline flowing through my veins it didn't really seem to matter all that much since I was able to backhand the rocky doll and send it flying backwards.
Now that it was off balance and reeling a little from being struck, I stepped forwards and unleashed a diagonal cut across its chest, the steel biting into the rocky armor it had, cracking it open and slicing through the flesh beneath.
