The effects of the seventh-tier Dark Protection Witchcraft were far superior to Black Mushroom's.
The price was the severe depletion of hundreds of Shamans' mental energy.
For some time to come, they would only be able to cast low-tier dark witchcraft.
Unless they were willing to overdraw their mental energy at the cost of falling unconscious.
Like Draconic, dark witchcraft did not draw upon mana as its catalyst, but mental energy.
But with Infernal meteorites raining down on their faces, they could no longer worry about the expenditure. Only by raising a double layer of protection could they be confident of fully withstanding this wave of attacks.
Zong Shen sat with one leg crossed over the other, an apple clenched between his teeth. Holding the altered Seal-Restricting Disc in one hand and the [Prophet's Keen-Sight Eye (Orange)] that enhanced his vision in the other, he stared unblinkingly at the Infernal meteorites falling in the distance. Orange-red flames intertwined with ghostly green Sacrificial Fire, their radiance illuminating the earth.
Those two or three minutes felt as long as a century. Dozens of Infernal meteorites fell from an altitude of over ten thousand meters above the canopy of the sky—an uncommon spectacle within the independent challenge domain.
Now, those Infernal meteorites were finally about to hit the ground. The first one smashed viciously into the super-tier witchcraft shield, orange-red blazing fire sweeping outward on scalding air currents.
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A rather impressive amount of blunt damage appeared.
Do not underestimate those three thousand-plus points of damage. It was enough to crush a whole swath of non-heavy-infantry sixth-tier warriors to death.
Even Zong himself, bolstered by the health bonus from the [Kaja Medical Gem (Gold)], would not be able to endure more than a few hits.
These Infernal meteorites were still vastly different from