CH408 Carnage
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With Alex's order, the expedition party—seemingly defying all common sense—charged straight at the regrouped fortress troops.
Zora was the first to act.
Recycling the lingering frost from her earlier Ice Boulder spell, she wove another chant—this time, an offensive one.
[Icicle Shower]!
The frost that had diffused across the courtyard suddenly recoalesced, forming dozens of razor-sharp ice bolts that rained down upon the assembled troops.
Her goal wasn't mass slaughter.
More than anything, she aimed to scatter them, preventing the fortress soldiers from forming the disciplined combat formations that would allow their superior numbers to overwhelm the twenty-two invaders.
Zora's role was, after all, battlefield crowd control.
The others would handle the killing.
As the spell landed, many among the hyped fortress troops attempted to simply tank the icicles, emboldened by the divine warmth of Juror's [Pious Devotion].
But reality proved harsher.
