Mantle of the Gods [LitRPG / Slow Burn / FTB Harem]

The hammer fell.

It landed where Astrid had been sitting, but she wasn't there anymore. She was on her back a few feet away.

Both of them looked completely confused, but I started laughing as tears streamed down my face. I knew what was about to happen.

Rix appeared behind the bull-man and a dagger grew out of his throat.

The Minotaur dropped the hammer and grabbed his throat. His hands began to glow as he focused on healing himself.

Rix looked at Astrid and said something then pointed at the MInotaur. The hero vanished and appeared behind the Minotaur, this time aiming for the back of his neck.

The bull-man twisted and tried to slap her, but Rix vanished again and appeared a few steps in front of him. He pulled his other hand away from his neck and I could see that the wound was mostly healed.

Except he'd forgotten that Rix wasn't the only one in the ring.

Astrid slid behind him and stabbed the blade on her left arm-shield into the back of his right leg.

Without his hammer, all the Minotaur had was his fists. His right fist slammed into the small spikes on her right arm-shield and knocked her away from him, but that also exposed his back.

Rix's chain-sword snapped out, planting itself into his left shoulder. When she pulled it out, she was able to knock him off-balance, so that he fell forward and caught himself with his left hand.

Astrid was back on her feet and running at him. The Minotaur swung wide with his right arm, which she ducked under and went to stab him in the chest.

With her in front of him and on his knees, the Minotaur used the only other weapon it had on it.

Its horns.

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The bull-man tucked his head and charged.

Astrid got both of her arm-shields up in front of her, which saved her from the brunt of it, but one shield cracked and the other one was gored and was yanked off as the bull-man ran over her.

The Minotaur turned around and stood up, yanking the bloody arm-shield off of its horn. He threw it to the ground and smashed it with his hoof. It tried to roar in triumph when Rix appeared beside it and stabbed it in the right side with her chain-sword, as a sword.

Rix danced out of range of the fist that tried to slam into her. She stopped beside Astrid and said something to her.

The other woman was trying to get up. She had a hole in the side of her right arm where the horn had gored it, then yanked the arm-shield off. Her red outfit was torn in so many places, and every one gave a peek of bruises on her golden skin. Astrid was favoring her left leg as she stood, but there was a fire in her blue eyes that I recognized.

The Minotaur was laughing as soft green light began to wash over it. The bull-man walked towards its discarded hammer like it didn't have a care in the world.

Rix tossed a knife in the air and Astrid caught it with her right hand, then they both disappeared.

The Minotaur froze as the crowd got quiet. Even the Authority were engrossed with watching the fight below us.

The bull-man started running towards his hammer, but part way there Rix appeared on his back with her chain-sword in his neck. Instead of pulling it out, though, she started wrapping the chain around his neck.

The minotaur grabbed at his throat with his left hand as he began to glow again. He tried to grab at her with his right arm, but she planted a knife in his shoulder. The blade began to bend as he struggled against it.

Rix began trying to pull her blade out sideways as she kicked at the back of his knee. It took three tries, but she drove him to kneel in front of her. She swapped her hold on his left shoulder and her sword to grab both of his horns. She pulled her knees up into his back and pulled as hard as she could.

Astrid appeared under him and the knife that Rix had given her was in his skull from under his exposed chin. She blocked the right fist as it hammered onto her left arm-shield. While he slammed into her, she pulled out the knife and kept stabbing faster than his healing could keep up.

One of the downsides to healing magic is that while it could heal a wound, it didn't replace the blood that you lost. A health potion would do both, which is why sometimes they were better than a healer.

The blood loss was slowing the Minotaur down, until it didn't have the strength to raise its right arm. It began to sway as its left hand dropped to its side and the glow vanished, but Astrid didn't stop stabbing.

Rix rode the bull-man to the ground as Astrid flashed twice.