Herja tweaked her plan slightly mid-jump, having an even better idea than simply decapitating the snake's head. Rather than have to deal with the rest of the chimera afterward, she was going to slay the beast outright. She dodged the massive talons on the chimera's front paw as she leaped up and over it, stabbing her sword with deadly force right behind the anaconda's eye socket. The strike killed the monstrous head instantly, although that was actually not the primary objective behind Herja's attack.<br/><br/>The valkyrie landed on the dead snake's neck, riding it as it fell limply towards the chimera's back. As she tore her sword out of the serpent, the blade came out coated with a mix of dark blood and another translucent green liquid. In fact, she'd carefully aimed her strike to puncture the anaconda's venomous gland, covering her weapon in its poison which she planned on using to kill the chimera. Gravity did it's works as Herja crashed into the creature's back, burying her sword into its powerful dorsal muscles all the way to the hilt before hopping off of it and retreating to the other end of the floating circle.<br/><br/>The beast roared and raised itself on its hind legs, putting on a ferocious display as it expressed its pain and rage loudly for the entire arena to hear. Once it finally fell back on to all four of its legs, the chimera began to charge wildly, but something was very off about it this time. It was slow, clumsy. The beast didn't even make it all the way across the circle before collapsing forward, paralyzed by the massive amount of venom that Herja had forced into its bloodstream.<br/><br/>Now that she had the time for it, the valkyrie braced herself and snapped her own shoulder back into place, grunting through gritted teeth as she did. It hurt like a bitch, but she was no stranger to pain after all the battles she'd fought in. Realizing that she needed to put an end to the chimera completely and that simply paralyzing it would be insufficient to satisfy the demonic overlords - and herself, for that matter - Herja confidently approached the beast.<br/><br/>She gracefully hopped up onto the monster's upper body and grabbed hold of one of the massive horns protruding from right behind the goat head. Putting both of her hands around the top of it and one foot against the base, Herja tugged on it several times with all of her might before finally tearing it off with a horrible crunching sound, several times louder than bones cracking. Panting heavily from the effort, she nevertheless managed to turn around and violently impale the goat's ugly head with the broken off piece of horn, punching a hole through its skull followed by another through its lower jaw as the horn exited through the other side.<br/><br/>Her body was absolutely exhausted and sore by that point, but Herja's bloodlust when it came to demons was enough to sustain her beyond her limits for a while longer. She went back to the chimera's second horn and tore that one off as well, having even more difficulty with it than the first one before finally succeeding. Jumping back down to the invisible circle upon which the battle had been fought, the valkyrie landed rather clumsily but quickly regained her footing, using her improvised weapon to support herself. With a final mighty battle cry, she brutally shoved the horn into the chimera's final head, forcing it in several feet further than was necessary.<br/><br/>The beast whimpered pathetically as it died out, and Herja stumbled backwards a few steps before falling to her hands and knees, coughing and gasping for air. The fight had taken every ounce of strength and willpower that that the valkyrie had left, but at least she'd live to fight another day.