Frostbound

Wave 23

The 23rd of 30 waves started spawning around us and I could see smoke wafting in the air from where I stood on the wall. The monsters had some kind of fire affinity and I was in for a rough battle. I had practiced extensively against Rachel over the element but I wasn't sure how fighting the masses of flame users would go.

"Blaze Lions!" Hal shouted from his perch looking over the horizon. With his higher perception and skills, he could [Identify] things from further out taking on the role of his late brother.

Flaming Lions, lovely.

We had fought stone lizards, acid spiders, lightning tigers, and now blaze lions. Why couldn't it have been something ice-related like ice foxes or dire wolves? Granted we already faced dire wolves, but that was before monsters had affinities.

Fighting something ice-related would be so much easier. I was confident that I was the better manipulator of ice and there was no way monsters were going to take my element from me. The thought was absurd.

Still, this wave would be anything but easy. On the bright side, it would help tremendously with my control and maybe I would beat Rachel with the boost.

Before I could get too deep into those thoughts, I pushed them away. I didn't need to start thinking about after the wave when I wasn't certain everyone would survive it. It was a fact of life at this point and I wasn't too torn up about it anymore. At least, that was what I told myself.

I would have to rely on a lot of help from Alice this wave because even with my boosted mana pool, I wasn't sure if I would last the entire wave. My Law protected my ice from melting but I was looking at a lot of flaming creatures coming toward us. Over a hundred were charging my side alone.

This was what I made my Law for though, and was where it was strongest. Ice that would last through anything, even flames.

Looking to the side, I saw Vinny and Connor manning the catapults with a slight smile on their faces. This would be the first time they were to be used against the waves and they were excited to fire them off.

Vinny was focused almost entirely on blacksmithing and not combat so he got to operate one of them while Connor got the other for my side. His poisons were already placed and the traps Allison set were already functional with it. His part in the battle was over and that left him available to man the weapon. He could still throw out clouds of poison, but that was a last resort attack. His poison affected friend and foe alike.