The blade was swinging up not sideways. The skakdi fries the gun used on him with a vision blast as he falls. The other skakdi take the cue to vision blast Deviox as well.
Then it's much easier- just turning to the side and it clangs harmlessly off his coat.
This might be hard to do with his head being one giant hole.
Deviox evades the vision blasts gracefully, blasters booming as he tears them apart piece-by-piece.
The skakdi are outsped and outskilled by Reaper 76 and thus fall.
"Considering the GB modifications afterwords, yes cursed is a more apt term."
He chuckled, "Indeed."
"They modified me to create a person's worst fear. Then they realized their mistake and trapped me and my army in a time loop. My soldiers slowly lost their minds becoming nothing more then zombies repeating the same day for thousands of years...What's your story?"