A storm of flesh and ash raged around Elias, and if it was possible to slow down the action for a second, an observer would see a spawn slamming into Elias's helmet, its body exploding against his stone skin, and another hit his pauldron, cracking the stone.
Following that, another spawn wrapped its limbs around his leg, trying to pull him down, but was crushed under his stone boot, and two more instantly took its place.
All of these happened in a fraction of a second, and time resumed its usual flow to display a scene of carnage that was unearthly.
However, these attacks by the spawns were nothing against their true weapons, which were not their claws or teeth; it was just mass, pure weight, either colliding with him on all sides or falling from the sky, accelerating with gravity, and then slamming into him again and again and again.
It did not matter that he had theoretically limitless vitality and a body made of stone; his overall Vitality kept dropping
