But they had come prepared!
Seeing that the time was right, Lucia shouted, "All members of Lucia's squad, begin the counterattack!"
"The best defense is a good offense!"
"War Magic: Thunder Lock Thousand Armies!"
The Magic Team had been around for so long. How could these mages not have practiced War Magic?
And Super-Rank Magic, too.
Everyone immediately began charging their shots. Their enemies saw the magic arrays crackling with lightning and understood what Lucia meant.
This was a counterattack.
They immediately raised Blood Shields to protect themselves. But this wasn't ordinary lightning.
The power came from Lucia's bloodline. In the past, the Church would have dragged her off to become a Saintess.
Lucia began chanting, too. Compared to before, she could now chant much faster, even murmuring the words under her breath.
Her hands moved rapidly. Instead of firing, she reached out, and a massive magic array appeared.
Their enemies saw it and immediately charged even more fiercely. They had been charging before, but now they were making a full-on assault!
Behind them, they even carried javelins used by Magic Masters. The wyverns hurled them like cannon shells, and the resulting explosions sent more than a dozen Magic Masters crashing down.
The power was no joke.
Sigris's Magic Team also began preparing their magic techniques. She glanced at the anti-aircraft guns below, calculated the altitude, and realized something differed from what the planners had expected. "Everyone, change the technique! Gravity Magic!"
Their opponents came in hard and fast, unleashing their most powerful magic right away, leaving no chance to counterattack and forcing them to defend.
But anyone familiar with defensive tactics knew that the best defense was a good offense.
If you kept defending, you would eventually show a weakness, leave an opening.
Fortunately, as the Pocket Formation gradually