This was indeed the most perilous and most intense battle Saine had faced since gaining experience in Plane Wars.
In truth, those three Level-3 Wild Gorillas did not even need to come looking for trouble. After consecutively casting more than twenty high-powered spells and exhausting every stored spell in his magical equipment, Saine himself had little Element Power left.
Magicians were not synonymous with "invincibility."
This was, after all, a world that followed balance.
His repeatedly depleted mana and the Mental Strength so exhausted that even Saine felt a splitting headache meant that he could no longer sustain his previous barrage of spells simply by drinking potions.
If Saine had continuously cast only low-powered or single-target spells, he absolutely could have lasted far longer in this war.
But Saine had not chosen to do that. Instead, like a massive clearance sale, he had hurled his prized spells at the Wild Gorillas' heads with all his might.
No rational magician would ever leave himself without a single inch of leeway in battle.
Saine was certainly not being foolish.
Besides intending to relieve Lina and the others, Saine's greater reliance was on the endless stream of Wizard World reinforcements he had already seen approaching from behind before arriving at this open battlefield.
A magician whose Mental Strength and mana had both run dry being trapped on the very front line of a battlefield was no different from committing suicide.
But Saine possessed a formidable physique that most magicians of the same level likely did not.
His powerful physical constitution allowed him to remain standing despite the splitting pain in his head and the backlash from overusing his Mental Strength. He even straightened his body, his eyes fixed ahead.
He did not have the Knights' hard armor, but he had the Dim Star