If Devaguea was good at aiming into melee combat, his blows would land; otherwise, they'd go wide, for fear of striking Akiros. Serena was blowing holes in the undead monster, but even that hardly seemed to be slowing him down, as he and Akiros clashed repeatedly, the latter taking far more blows, his anger carrying him through the battle, even as he visibly weakened, though Alison's spell to slow the creature helped immensely, as Akiros fell back, to tend to his wounds.