Ways to Counter the Undead

Benjamin shuddered in alarm.

Once the bubble broke, never mind the drifting black smoke and ash-white flames—even the surging water elements within the Deep Sea Domain would probably drown the mages inside!

"Pr-President... what do we do?"

The mages panicked as well. In their frantic haste, they erected magical barriers, but they knew perfectly well that simple elemental barriers would do little against the ash-white flames.

Both the bubble and their barriers could collapse in an instant, leaving death as their only fate.

They all turned to look at Benjamin.

The situation was urgent. Benjamin had no time to think, so he simply traced out the runes and cast Elemental Command: Healing—if they were injured by the ash-white flames or the overly dense water elements, then at least with the runes' powerful healing abilities, he could keep them alive a little longer.

And that would give him a chance to reconstruct the bubble.

As for the bone dragon...

The instant the Deep Sea Domain unfolded, the Water Elemental Sprite's abilities erupted in full. Dozens of razor-thin water threads lashed around it like vines. It shot toward the bone dragon at incredible speed, its tiny body weaving through the skeleton as the water threads danced, forcing the bone dragon to temporarily stop spewing flames.

The sprite had tied up their greatest immediate threat, allowing Benjamin to free his hands and rescue his companions. Otherwise, they might have already been wiped out beneath the bone dragon's claws!

A few seconds passed. As the runes took shape, water elements rapidly gathered. Rain threads brimming with immense vitality condensed into being and, under Benjamin's command, slowly descended toward the mages...

At that very moment, a wisp of ash-white flame drifted to the edge of the bubble.

Pop!

With a soft sound, the bubble failed