The battle in Lasudelan changed by the moment.
The twenty-odd mid-level demons that had come to probe them had only just been dealt with when the fire elemental energy in the air abruptly became extraordinarily turbulent and active. Under such conditions, all fire-based spells had their power greatly enhanced.
Yet no wizard—or rather, no demon—dared to use fire-based spells, because while the power of fire was amplified, it would also completely spiral out of control. Setting oneself ablaze might not happen, but fire-based spells injuring one's own allies occurred one after another.
Being unable to use fire spells was bad enough, but under the erosion of the raging power of fire in the air, spells of every other elemental school were also suppressed. This change left many elemental wizards struggling when facing demons.
"This is utterly terrible!" An Ash Wizard gave up on his specialty in fire spells and used the Dark Mist Veil, which he was not particularly familiar with, to support his companions.
The moment his words fell, the falling streams of fire in the sky changed.
Previously, cascades of flowing fire had only appeared where fire-pattern nodes converged. Now, even places that were not nodes were occasionally showered by flowing fire.
Flames like meteors fell from the sky from time to time. There was no way to judge where they came from, nor any way to know where they would land. They simply crashed down at random.
The Ash Wizard who had spoken had just cast Dark Mist Veil when a falling stream of fire smashed him straight from the air to the ground.
With a thunderous boom, a massive crater appeared in the ground, and flames ignited it in an instant.
It took quite a while before the Ash Wizard crawled out.
Fortunately, he was a