[The sight of Sebastian charging him with that grin on his human-looking face and the bolt still sticking out of his eye makes a trickle of fear slide icily down Liem's spine. In that moment, he does not remember Bondrewd's presence, to consider either as assistance or further threat. He is struck by the reality of being surrounded on virtually all sides by monsters, with the worst one of all gunning right for him, and it makes the demand for blood sing through him, loud enough to drown out everything else.
He is snapping another quarrel into place and aiming his crossbow at Sebastian's other eye, intent on at least crippling him to reduce the threat he presents, when the demon tears into the bug nearing him. Liem's aim is interrupted, however, by the sudden tumbling of the chitinous creature's body towards him; he only narrowly avoids being bodied by over a hundred pounds of spiny arachnid. Twisting away from its trajectory, he finds himself at Sebastian's mercy instead, and a sharp, pained sound tears from his throat as the demon rakes his wounded leg open, sending him to one knee while black blood weeps from the parted flesh.
He doesn't wait around for Sebastian to finish the job. The magic he calls on to whisk himself out of the demon's grasp taxes him more than usual, but he still manages to shove himself back onto his feet and vanish into thin air — to step into existence further across the room, behind the monster in a man's shape. Pain savages his leg when he puts his weight on it, dragging a snarl from him as he aims his crossbow directly at Sebastian's heart — it makes the shape of his magic a curse that he wraps around his weapon, and the name of that curse is demon's bane.]
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He is snapping another quarrel into place and aiming his crossbow at Sebastian's other eye, intent on at least crippling him to reduce the threat he presents, when the demon tears into the bug nearing him. Liem's aim is interrupted, however, by the sudden tumbling of the chitinous creature's body towards him; he only narrowly avoids being bodied by over a hundred pounds of spiny arachnid. Twisting away from its trajectory, he finds himself at Sebastian's mercy instead, and a sharp, pained sound tears from his throat as the demon rakes his wounded leg open, sending him to one knee while black blood weeps from the parted flesh.
He doesn't wait around for Sebastian to finish the job. The magic he calls on to whisk himself out of the demon's grasp taxes him more than usual, but he still manages to shove himself back onto his feet and vanish into thin air — to step into existence further across the room, behind the monster in a man's shape. Pain savages his leg when he puts his weight on it, dragging a snarl from him as he aims his crossbow directly at Sebastian's heart — it makes the shape of his magic a curse that he wraps around his weapon, and the name of that curse is demon's bane.]