Sherlock was like the God of Thunder.
He held his staff, and in an instant, thunder blanketed the entire long corridor. Even the extreme distances his spells could not reach were covered in an instant by Chain Lightning's chaining effect.
--All of this was because of Arsene's Spell Anchoring effect!
Even when completely outside his field of vision, even without being locked onto through perception or sight, it could still hit the enemy with one hundred percent accuracy!
"Spell Anchoring" was precisely this unreasonable "guaranteed hit" enhancement.
In principle, it could not actually guarantee that a spell would hit. It merely made the spell seem to gain a life of its own, allowing it to automatically find its way. When Fireball was used under the effect of Spell Anchoring, it gained weak guidance, curving toward the enemy like a missile--but even so, it could be shaken off by detonating it early or moving at high speed, since it did not increase the projectile's speed.
Lightning spells, however, were different.
Once locked on, they were guaranteed to hit! Even Fifth Level and Sixth Level Transcendents could never dodge lightning!
Rather than chains, they were more like whips. Lightning continuously gathered on Sherlock's staff, electric arcs crackling as they leaped across everyone--whenever someone fell, the arcs immediately jumped to the next person.
Sherlock actually had no idea what the unique spell of the Fourth Level of the Path of Love, "Spell Anchoring," did--even Arsene himself did not know.
Yet through wisdom alone, he deduced the effect of this state and instantly thought of the most correct way to use it!
--That first Chain Lightning nearly cleared the field.
Nearly half of the Blood Servants were mortals, while some had levels in the Path of Love or the Dedication Path. But none of