Able to take pain? Alessa could do it. Her worst fight had been with the Nightmare King, since he had sent literally dozens of monsters down her path. But she was impatient, and she refused to be beaten by a creature like this. Now, instead of going for a ripping kill, she unleashed her own darkness into him, trying to rot him from the inside. Soon black veins would show on his face as Alessa attempted to overwhelm him with her own dark essence.

See if he could withstand THAT.