Book 8: Chapter 63: Pale Thicket
Qin Lun looked around. Their team breaking out towards the valley interior made Idria the spearhead. The female knight truly lived up to being a Shield Knight of Loviatar. She was fearless on the battlefield, swinging her massive double-bladed axe like a windmill. Skeletons and zombies alike were sent flying through the air like straw in a gale if they so much as touched her weapon.
The sight left the others staring, dumbfounded. What kind of family did this girl come from? Not only did she have such a unique heirloom, but her monstrous strength rivaled a war goddess.
To Idria’s right was Philip. The hot-tempered mage seemed determined to vent all his frustrations onto the undead. Gripping his staff tightly with one hand, he poured mana potions from a glass bottle into his mouth with the other, unleashing spells without regard for cost.
An Apostle’s mage profession differed slightly from story mages like Angelo. Philip didn’t possess a vast repertoire of magical skills. Right now, he only used a single offensive spell: Fireball Spell. However, his casting speed was abnormally fast.
Fireball after fireball formed at the tip of his staff. Almost as soon as one was fired, the next took shape. It was practically instant casting. If Angelo could have seen this, his eyeballs probably would have popped out.
Mages of the Toril World could not achieve this casting speed even by bypassing the Magic Web and using only their internal mana. Each spell required a certain buffer time to construct. The faster the casting, the greater the mental backlash.
For sustained rapid-fire Fireballs like this, even a mage like Angelo, nearing Six-Ring capability, couldn’t maintain this speed. He’d have to stop after three or four casts to let his mental energy settle. Spamming it like a machine gun was impossible.
To the female knight’s left stood Robin, the beautiful Leader of the Lost team. Robin’s combat profession was Spirit Summoner, an exceptionally rare jack-of-all-trades profession capable of filling almost any role within a team.
Though the nature of this combat profession was versatile, like Nicole’s Divine Caster, it was actually an incredibly powerful Apostle profession. Spirit Summoners bore some resemblance to a charlatan profession originating from the Huaxia District of the Earth Federation: ‘Spirit Embodiment’. It involved a ritual to invite a spirit to possess the body, granting divine power.