They had to buy time for the Witch Legion to recover.
Witches could regain their fighting strength quickly, and their versatility meant they had quite a few contingency plans even against enemies of this caliber.
Using Dispel Magic and an anti-freeze spell would make them immune to Vera's damage!
...Jiang Han had come up with the same plan, but unfortunately, she couldn't use it for the moment. She had to fight Vera face-to-face and buy some time for her compatriots—whether for them to recover or for the reinforcements behind them to catch up. In any case, she had to hold her opponent back first!
"I should ask Eileen another day if she can teach me close combat..." Jiang Han muttered, pulling a feat potion from her pouch and downing it in one gulp!
While a witch normally needed long-term training to acquire feats, there was another way.
That was to brew feat potions and drink the properly labeled bottles when needed.
A whole feat tree for close combat lit up. Knowledge of how to use melee weapons naturally surfaced in Jiang Han's mind, and she took out another potion and drank it.
Memory Potion!
It could grant a witch the memories of an identity for up to twenty-five years, lasting four hours.
Jiang Han had drunk the memories of a powerful female knight.
Long memories immediately flooded her mind—the female knight's memories, of how she fought, of how she wielded her longsword.
Though they were only temporary memories and carried a stiff, unnatural feeling, Jiang Han still instantly gained a wealth of swordsmanship experience.
Of course, they were false memories, ones that would vanish completely once the potion's effects ended.
She pulled a decapitating sword embedded in the ground free. The enormous weapon possessed astonishing weight.
She stared at the