That makes it difficult to focus on the first dagger. Skulduggery is forced to improvise, pulled backwards by the kedan on his back the way he is. He reels backwards, drawing the other two attackers in, and then he thrusts his hands out, blasting all three of them away with an abrupt wall of air.

It gives him enough of a reprieve that Skulduggery can draw his revolver, and he whirls to empty the bullets into any of the cultists who come too close.