He was also aware that it would try to coil about him and crush him, or coil about and then dive from above, or other such tricks, so he was careful about doing a colossus climb on it. But as attack after attack was shrugged off, starting with his longsword, and then the earthbreaker, he realized he was doing it wrong. He switched to the rapier, and began working to chip away at it, using blood magic to rip more blood from it after the rapier found a crease in its armor and pricked it. Mostly though, he focused on not getting swallowed or crushed, several times aborting attacks that might have penetrated the scales to avoid its massive maw.<br/><br/>After a few minutes of the game, he had a sizeable orb of blood from the creature, but as near as he could tell, it was just as feisty as before. So he gave a shrug, cast resist energy acid on himself, and waited for its next lunging bite, before jumping straight into its maw, aiming his rapier for the roof of its mouth, figuring the enchantments on it, plus the extra energy he was channeling from the blood orb, would be enough to give its brain a significant poke.