A part of the rampart that was not yet broken was struck with a magic attack from the outside. It was a lightning attack.
Zara was surprised.
There are still monsters that can use magic?
If that was the case, then a new possibility had opened up.
“Laura! I’m moving!”
Zara took off without waiting for an answer, cutting down every monster he passed. He then leaped onto the fallen stones of the rampart, killed the enemies around him with speed and precision, and jumped through to the other side.
By that point, he had become the target of the bloodlust of all 1,500 monsters outside the city. The people watching him were surely taken aback by this seemingly suicidal act.
There they are!
The magic attacks were coming from a strange type of monster. There were just over ten of them. They looked like giant earthworms with thorns all along their bodies, and they were five times the height of the average human.
Zara made full use of his Acceleration skill and circled all the way around the army of monsters to get behind them. While doing so, he disabled the blessing of Alestra’s Bracelet and enabled the blessing of Bolton’s Charm.
An ogre swung its club at him, and he blocked it with Ende’s Shield. The shield reflected the force of the blow, causing the club to shatter.
The ogre tried to punch him, and he blocked that with Ende’s Shield as well, greatly injuring its arm.
Zara slaughtered the enemies around him with the sword in his right hand. When he got within arrow’s range of the giant earthworms, he stored his shield, drew out his Tirika Bow, and fired at two of them in quick succession while dodging the attacks of the enemies around him.
The first giant earthworm trembled violently after being hit with the arrow, and then it turned toward Zara and fired a lightning attack. The second one did the same.
Zara allowed both lightning attacks to hit him, and his entire body jolted from the shock. He looked down at Raika’s Ring. Its light had returned.
“Summon Comet!”
A comet fell and blasted away the monsters near the rampart.
Each of the five blessed items of House Mercurius had incredible blessings.
Alestra’s Bracelet eliminated magic at the user’s discretion.
Kaldan’s Dagger protected the user from status ailments and poison.
Ende’s Shield reflected physical attacks back at the user’s opponent.
Raika’s Ring fired offensive magic.
Bolton’s Charm absorbed magic and granted invisibility.
There were a number of extremely strong spells sealed within Raika’s Ring, and even people without magical ability could cast them. Naturally, the spells could not be cast once the magic power within ran out.
As for Bolton’s Charm, in addition to the blessing of invisibility, it was also capable of absorbing enemy magic attacks for the owner to use as magic power. If you were hit by a magic attack with both Bolton’s Charm and Raika’s Ring equipped, the magic power would be stored in Raika’s Ring. Most of the damage from the attack would be absorbed, but the pain would remain the same.
In other words, Zara could continue casting Summon Comet as long as he could bear the pain of the lightning attacks. What would make this difficult, however, was that he needed to dodge the attacks of the crazed monsters around him while remaining in firing range of the giant earthworms. In this chaotic of a battle, there was no way even Zara could avoid all their attacks. He would receive a constant stream of injuries, so it could not be said that this method had a high chance of success.
But this was the only sliver of hope they had in a hopeless situation.
Zara continued to fight with the rage of a demon. His memory from that point on was vague.