As the elemental torrent dispersed, the shield Number One had raised dissipated as well.
Benjamin could clearly sense that there was nothing special about Number One's shield. It was a very basic energy shield.
In terms of elemental manipulation, never mind comparing him to prodigious wizards like Benjamin and Viola-even most Level 6 wizards who regularly fought on the battlefield were better than him.
Number One's elemental manipulation skills were probably only a little better than those of Level 6 wizards in administrative roles.
That was only natural, though. He had probably had very few opportunities to take action, and without practical experience, his technique was bound to be somewhat lacking.
Yet these techniques, which Benjamin considered almost crude, still produced astonishing results when paired with a Plane Wizard's terrifying scale.
The defensive power of that shield alone far surpassed Benjamin's painstakingly refined Return to Void Armor.
If the "yield" of the final measures employed by the Tower of Silence and the Chaos Cult during the Wizard War represented a Level 8 Wizard's normal offensive output, then that "ordinary" shield could easily have withstood several such attacks.
While Benjamin was pondering this, the Insect-kin on the other side began gathering their forces.
Dense swarms of Level 8 Insect-kin emerged from the Plane Cluster. Their numbers were still manageable, but far more terrifying were the Level 8 Lifeforms of other races pouring out without end.
Judging by these creatures' vacant eyes, they were clearly Parasite Beasts that had been infested as well.
It looks like the Insect-kin employ their parasitized creatures differently from the Spirit Race. Benjamin silently shook his head.
The Insect-kin Civilization had far fewer Level 8 Insect-kin than the Spirit Race, probably only a few thousand in total.
But the number of Parasite Beasts was staggering. At a