20+ minute long fight, trying to find a combination of spells/sword that could bust through that hide. Finally I did this:
You gesture at a juvenile desert armadillo.
The mana you were holding contributes to the spell.
You manage to channel most of your energy into the spell. The rest is wasted.
Your brown lynx seems to make your Lightning Bolt spell less straining.
A bolt of hazy blizzard blue-white lightning blazes out of the sky toward a juvenile desert armadillo!
The lightning bolt tears into its abdomen like a blast from Firulf's staff.
Roundtime: 2 seconds.
A juvenile desert armadillo falls over and, after a couple of spasms, is still.
The hands release their grip on a juvenile desert armadillo's corpse and fall to the ground, reverting to small piles of sand that are quickly blown away.
BtW, only 400's in combats and TM unbuffed. Go me!
~Marganus