On the battle line, a young Sequence User in a dark blue robe stood toward the rear of the formation, forming a seal with both hands before him and murmuring a few lines of an incantation!
A pale blue flame appeared in his palm!
The flame flickered a few times in the night, rapidly coalescing into a palm-sized lotus!
Every petal of the blue-flame lotus was rendered in exquisite detail, its edges gleaming with a cold, eerie light as it radiated astonishing heat!
A pair of Monitoring Glasses rested on his nose, and the targeting circle on their lenses had already locked onto a Weird charging toward the battle line a short distance ahead!
The Weird was covered in grayish-brown chitin and moved on all fours, resembling a cockroach magnified countless times over, its two long antennae waving wildly in the night wind!
The tier information that popped up on the lenses gave him a clear idea of what he faced!
A third-tier Weird, the same tier as him!
Based on the combat experience he had accumulated over the past two years and more, spell-type Sequence Users certainly dealt considerable damage when attacking Weird of the same tier!
It took at least seven or eight third-tier spells to kill a third-tier Weird outright!
If its shell was thick enough, needing a dozen or more shots was not unheard of!
Without thinking much of it, he flicked his wrist, sending the blue-flame lotus along a graceful arc to strike the Weird squarely on its back!
The instant the lotus touched its shell, the pale blue flames flowed into the Weird's body like water!
There was no explosion, no roar, not even a splash of flame!
The charging Weird abruptly froze, all six legs losing their strength at once. Its massive body