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At the very front of the charge were Hansen and Leonik. Unlike adventurers, mercenaries had far more experience fighting other people and they knew exactly how to handle a mage.
The best way was simple: take the mage’s head off before he could speak a single word of a spell. Unfortunately, that wasn’t an option in this battle.
Hansen slammed his shield into the ground and dropped to one knee. He had fully prepared by bringing a tower shield this time—one big enough to cover his whole body.
“Leonik!”
“I know!”
Leonik braced himself at Hansen’s side. Two B-ranks pouring all their strength into one shield created a wall that compared to that of a castle. This was how the Steel Claw fought mages.
That hardened defense had once held off even a sixth-tier spell. Aura of two colors flickered across the shield’s surface, overlapping to form a barrier like a castle wall.
“Stay down where you belong, you dirty pests,” Andrei muttered as he glared at their resistance and thrust out his hand.
Black Lightning, the fifth-tier black magic, was already a devastating spell on its own. On top of that, being inside the manor, drawing on the leyline magic woven through the domain, its power multiplied several times over.
The lightning struck before the thunder could catch up. With a roar, the tower shield buckled as both mercenaries were hurled backward. Four deep trenches gouged the floor where they’d dug in and molten rivulets of metal dripped from the shield’s ruined frame, burned through by the lightning that punched right through their Aura.
Hansen and Leonik were a sight...
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