Pyromancer Novice Strikes with a Hatchet (Dark Souls 3)

In the starting location, ordinary opponents (graveyard skeletons) are carried out with one blow, and when he reached the first boss, he knocked him four times with a hatchet - minus half the health scale. Is this an idea? As if some kind of trainer. Somehow not interesting or something ... Or will there be full hardcore further?
PS I played the first and second parts. Moreover, to compare the "hippopotamus" from the first part, when he tried to fill him with a stump of a sword ... then it was very difficult.