"I must be going crazy," Kael said, concentrating his mana with everything he had to keep his gaze up and eliminate the hordes of monsters coming toward him.
"I believe whatever performed these rituals really didn't like you breaking one of them," Umbra said, hovering in spectral form near Kael.
He looked at her and said, "I'm really going to go crazy if this continues. I can use unlimited mana, but the atmosphere is losing mana by the second."
Ahri, in her fox form, flew close to Umbra and said, "This is the academy's fault. That protective barrier sucked too much mana from the environment, and since the city is part of the ritual, the mana of nature refuses to enter a corrupted place like this."
"I figured so," Kael said, focusing hard to use darkness magic and drain mana from the monsters.
