After advancing, the Weird hadn't merely grown larger. Its strength had improved in every respect, and even the skulls originally impaled on its head could now fly up and attack.
Ai Si waved his hands, sending all his azure explosive flames at those skulls, trying to hold them back and give the others a suitable opening to attack.
After all, only his flames and Luo Fan's arrows could reach the skulls flying through the air.
Yet despite Ai Si doing everything he could, one of the skulls still slipped through the flames and charged at An Xiaoran.
As someone with an entirely support-oriented role, An Xiaoran had no means at all of dealing with the skull charging toward her.
Niu Dagang used Block to stop the Weird's charging body. Seeing the skull overhead fly past him toward An Xiaoran, his expression turned horrified, but there was nothing he could do.
Whoosh!
Just as the skull was about to reach An Xiaoran, a figure suddenly stepped in front of her.
It was Rose.
"Flame Ring!"
Rose mustered every bit of her strength and activated the second skill of the Spell Sequence.
A ring of flame appeared and burst outward with Rose's body at its center. This was a skill mages used to drive away nearby enemies.
But although the skull wasn't the Weird's main body, it was still part of a tier-two Weird. With Rose's initial Spell Sequence, Flame Ring had very little effect.
Struck by the flames around Rose, the skull merely paused for a brief instant before continuing its collision course.
That pause was like the slight jolt of a car changing gears. Without paying close attention, it would have been impossible to notice.
Hum!
But Xiao Ran reacted quickly. The instant the skull broke through Flame Ring, a