Chapter 353: Blood and Snow - Healer’s Claws
"No!" Kordia shouted, slamming a shield into place that sent Zazel’s shot deflecting wide of its target.
Neither Halie nor Amarena made any move to escape, which Kordia assumed meant they were incapacitated in some way. At this distance, the most she could tell was that Amarena was moving but Halie was not.
Zazel lifted a fist that raised a spike of molten rock, aimed right for her stomach.
Instinctively she rolled, gathering pure mana by will alone before she opened her mouth and fired it. The silvery bolt struck true, breaking Zazel’s shield but failing to cut through the thick aura of magic that surrounded him. Instead, it split into dozens of smaller beams, arcing away as the silver strands faded.
Two more beams broke exactly the same way, and Zazel’s counterattack launched a dozen stone bullets into Kordia’s shields.
The bullets were infused with mana, such that when they struck, they exploded into body-rending shrapnel. Having learned her defenses from Kir, they failed to penetrate, but she felt the drain on her mana supply sharply.
And to her sight, her opponent’s mana had barely dipped at all.
Is this the difference in our power?
If the demon’s aura was blue, that put him on the same level as an Archon mage or above. An exponential rise from where Kordia was at. And based on his armor, he was in war form.
Even if power alone didn’t always determine victory, it was a major advantage for him, and one that Kordia had no idea how to overcome if she couldn’t match him.
But she did have an option that most people didn’t...