Rabbit Girl had leaped into the air to draw Nereid's attention.
But the moment she received Gray Porcelain's message through the Mind Tether, she turned and fled without hesitation.
At the same time, Angel manipulated his illusion nodes to create several cloud cushions in midair that would boost her speed. Rabbit Girl stepped onto them without a second thought.
One cloud boosted her speed, then a second...
By the time Rabbit Girl stepped onto the third, she had become little more than a blur.
Like a swift darting through a storm, she twisted and turned amid the flashes of lightning.
The whistling of the shockwaves distracted Nereid several times, slowing the release of its Thunderous Punishment.
By the time Nereid summoned its lightning spears and sent them stabbing down, Rabbit Girl had already escaped and rejoined Gray Porcelain and Angel.
The instant Rabbit Girl entered the Elemental Field, Angel changed it into a lightning Elemental Field.
The next second...
A dome of lightning enveloped the area, which measured five meters across in each direction.
Angel had deliberately set the lightning Elemental Field's dome to that size.
The Elemental Field could be expanded or contracted. The smaller it was, the higher the elemental concentration and the thicker its dome.
With the dome now only five meters across, its lightning-element concentration was extremely high. Standing inside felt like wearing a cheap pair of sunglasses: everything around them was shrouded in dark blue mist.
The Elemental Field could expand to twenty meters across, but at that size, the outer dome would probably be no more than a thin curtain of lightning. Its defenses would likely fall sharply.
Unless they had no other choice, it was best to keep the Elemental Field at five meters across.
Once they were all inside the lightning dome,