[A horse's strength is mostly in its size and mobility, and in this case, Kaede's very quick reaction helps, as the strong Chimera kicks into the legs of the creature, sending it stumbling down.
There's something that flashes in the back of Maria's mind, skitters through the darkness of the Underground Corpse Pile and her memories of Ludwig, like a flash of lightning, scattering the thoughts. It's anger, and she doesn't care where it came from, it's more clarifying than the horror her mind is remembering.
It spurs her into action, but a split second afterward, and she lets the furor drive her onward. She leans her considerable size - and weight, though she is not overweight, dense muscle and a huge frame means her scale tops out a lot higher than it seems like it would - and pushes forward with a vicious slash into the belly of the beast. The Rakuyo cuts easily into the muscle, deep into the bowels, severing muscle and wavering a little only through the thicker ligaments and tendons, and only stops when it bites into the ribs and pauses half an inch buried into the cage. Then, Maria rips out and backward, and the creature squalls again, in rage, in pain, in vengeance, and she steps backward, but the "step" turns into ten feet as she flashes magic, and teleports well out of its range of motion as it flails back at her, and misses, stumbling between the gutting and the wounded leg. Her pants are soaked nicely in blood and viscera, but she doesn't seem to care.
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There's something that flashes in the back of Maria's mind, skitters through the darkness of the Underground Corpse Pile and her memories of Ludwig, like a flash of lightning, scattering the thoughts. It's anger, and she doesn't care where it came from, it's more clarifying than the horror her mind is remembering.
It spurs her into action, but a split second afterward, and she lets the furor drive her onward. She leans her considerable size - and weight, though she is not overweight, dense muscle and a huge frame means her scale tops out a lot higher than it seems like it would - and pushes forward with a vicious slash into the belly of the beast. The Rakuyo cuts easily into the muscle, deep into the bowels, severing muscle and wavering a little only through the thicker ligaments and tendons, and only stops when it bites into the ribs and pauses half an inch buried into the cage. Then, Maria rips out and backward, and the creature squalls again, in rage, in pain, in vengeance, and she steps backward, but the "step" turns into ten feet as she flashes magic, and teleports well out of its range of motion as it flails back at her, and misses, stumbling between the gutting and the wounded leg. Her pants are soaked nicely in blood and viscera, but she doesn't seem to care.
Won't take much now.]