Frostbound

Rachel

"There he goes," Rachel muttered to herself.

She would have to be blind, deaf, and incapacitated to miss the veritable blizzard of power taking place inside the valley. Even before her magical abilities were enhanced with her bloodline she would have sensed it. A part of her believed even a normal person could have.

Chris was anything but subtle, but that didn't really matter anymore. The fact that his current display of power nearly matched the collective strength of all the mages here was irksome, though.

Rachel wasn't arrogant and wasn't envious, but she at least felt they were in similar leagues, but she knew she wouldn't be able to do what he was currently doing.

Sure, she could match the power output and area size, but her mana would run out eventually and she would be surrounded with nowhere to go. Chris, on the other hand, had asinine amounts of stamina.

She scoffed at his display and turned back to what she was doing. Being in charge of the [Ritual Cast] made her not able to split her focus too much. It was already hard enough to link seven people together, no need to add daydreaming on top of it.

Most of her skills weren't useful from how far away she was, but there were ways of getting around that. Sure, [Flamethrower] cast from her hand would do nothing, but if she moved the point of origin, it would be fine.

Manipulating spells to do something against what their Skill matrix indicated was difficult, but not impossible. Over a year of training had gone into making it easier and she prided herself on doing just that.

With Chris ruining the area closest to him with Ice mana, she started targeting the flanks of the formation. It was just in time too, because with the numerical advantage the Demons had, they were starting to wrap around the edges of the lines.

Giant pillars of fire exploded on either end, incinerating any of the creatures trying to get around. She took it a few steps further with a creative touch of [Fire Manipulation], feeding and expanding what was already there.

She knew this was a marathon, not a sprint, and conserving her mana pool was more important than flashy spells. Using [Fire Manipulation] on already casted skills used way less mana than activating new ones.