Toz threw the Fireball at the Flesh Ggolem before it could get too close to him. But unlike last time when the Flesh Golem was caught by surprise, the Flesh GOlem intercepted the Fireball with a large hand clad in demonic energy. The hand slapped the Fireball to deflect it. But Toz, after learning from Anaster, made it so that the Fireball exploded on impact and scattered a rain of flames onto the Flesh Golem's arms.
Most of the fire was blocked by the Flesh Golem's demonic energy, but some of it reached and burned the Flesh Golem's flesh. However, the Flesh Golem's regeneration wasn't impeded by some lousy flames, and the injuries quickly disappeared. But Toz wasn't discouraged.
He grabbed his sword, enveloped in flames and burning red-hot like heated iron, despite being wood. Toz dashed forward to the Flesh Golem, who, unlike the Death Knight, actually took damage. Toz's sword wasn't good enough to cut through the Death Knight's armor. He couldn't even scratch it.
But the Flesh Golem was a lot more susceptible to damage. It was just that the Flesh Golem recovered almost instantly.
But Toz was satisfied as long as he could deal damage and quickly approached the Flesh Golem while dodging its massive fist that came flying toward him. It was a little more difficult to dodge the wind that the fist left in its wake, but Toz pushed through until he reached the Flesh Golem's leg.
Toz made use of the Flesh Golem's attempt at kicking him to jump onto the foot and launch himself upward to the Flesh Golem's torso. He didn't forget to stab the Flesh Golem in the foot during the upswing and blast a torrent of flames inside the Flesh Golem's foot.
And when the Flesh Golem's kick had gone far enough, Toz jumped and landed on its raised thigh, which he used as another springboard to reach the Flesh Golem's upper arm.
Coincidentally, Toz began doing what Vatel had done with a sword on fire instead of a spear of lightning. He began running across the Flesh Golem's upper body and dragging his sword across the Flesh Golem's thick hide.
However, Toz made sure to pump in as many flames into the Flesh Golem's body as possible so that they could wreak havoc and destroy its insides.
The Flesh Golem felt the damage Toz wrought on its body and covered its body in a fog of death attribute demonic energy that should have been enough to drive away Toz as soon as possible. It had worked wonders against the lightning-using pest from before, after all. So, even if it was costly, the Flesh Golem deemed it a necessary and worthy expenditure.
However, Toz covered his own body in a layer of flames that kept the fog of death at bay. And while dodging the Flesh Golem's frantic slapping, Toz ran across its shoulders and climbed around its neck, constantly dragging his weapon along the Flesh Golem's skin.
It didn't take long for the Flesh Golem to begin to realize that it couldn't do anything to Toz. And if that continued, it was only a matter of time until Toz succeeded in draining the Flesh Golem of its demonic energy.
So, before that happened, the Flesh Golem called out for help. Both to the lich and the Death Knight.
The lich saw what was happening to the Flesh Golem. And it was already working on a way to help by gathering the stray combatants and servants of death that had managed to escape the mana storm.
The mana storm was still wreaking havoc on the troops, but the lich moved to the side to avoid the worst of it as it gathered the troops. But the lich couldn't quite exert perfect control over its mana, and it took a while and a lot of effort and concentration for the lich to be able to pull off its spell. But it eventually succeeded.
The troops forcefully gathered by the lich were sacrificed and turned into a fog of pure death that flew over to the Flesh Golem.
Toz noticed the approaching spell and quickly jumped off the Flesh Golem. He could withstand the Golem's magic since it was more like a concentration of demonic energy rather than proper magic. But the lich's spell was a concentration of death, and touching it would severely weaken his flames, maybe even to the point where he died.
"Oi! Wanna switch?"
And since Toz wouldn't be able to fight the Flesh Golem while the cloud of concentrated death hung around it, he asked Kahglia to switch.
Upon hearing Toz's voice, Kahglia spared a glance at the Flesh Golem.
"Sure, get over here."
Toz found Kahglia a little rude, but he didn't bother and dashed over to the Death Knight so that Kahglia could fight the Flesh Golem without worry. Thankfully, she had managed to wear down the Death Knight enough to make it easier for Toz to keep it occupied. It would have been meaningless if they switched, and Toz couldn't hold back the Death Knight while Kahglia fought with the Flesh Golem.
Toz ran toward the Death Knight and launched Fireball after Fireball toward its face.
The Death Knight blocked Toz's cascade of spells with its hand since the fires could slink through the gaps in its visor if it wasn't careful. That was something Toz hadn't noticed before, but now that the Death Knight had revealed such a glaring weakness, Toz figured out how to keep the Death Knight away from Kahglia and the Flesh Golem's fight.
So, now that he had discovered the Death Knight's potential weakness, Toz turned the battle into a medium-range one. And since the Death Knight didn't have any means of attacking from afar, Toz dominated the battle as he led the Death Knight around the battlefield while sending an unending stream of fire to its helm.
The Death Knight knew what Toz was doing. But there was nothing it could do about it. If it tried to look away, Toz would slip a Fireball past its defenses and into its armor.
