With each strike warriors only became, faster, stronger, and keener.
Meanwhile, the speed and force behind each of Adams swings kept on decreasing.
Worse, the warriors had realised that Athena was his weakness and kept on targeting her.
Adam understood too late.. . that he was beginning to lose.
[BANG!]
A spear smashed against his chest and forced him backward.
Another slashed across his thigh.
A third pierced through his side.
Blood rapidly soaked his clothes, and even his monstrous body was beginning to fail under the constant assault.
And yet, somehow, despite his worsening condition, not a single attack reached Athena.
Because he moved like a madman.
His body miraculously broke through enemy encirclements and raced continuously across the battlefield, intercepting every incoming strike no matter what it cost him.
Again and again he parried and repelled their vicious blows, butt every second spent defending Athena was another wound on his body.
