Gareth was right of course. There were only a few more minutes of the sun's appearance in the sky and this was all to keep the coven safe for those minutes before they could finally, openly fight back.
The problem, however, was that ignoring them was easier said than done. Hell, it was impossible. Or at least it seemed like so until Alexia dashed over with her footholds of wind, and spun her sword to send down an attack that slammed into ten of the water monsters and burst them apart.
The drops of water began to converge, trying to stitch the destroyed monsters back together again when Arlette slammed her palms together, separating them to create a dark purple spell circle that conjured a barrage of needles that stabbed into each water droplet with ridiculous precision, injecting them with the Dark element's parasitic destruction and breaking them apart at a microscopic level from which they could not recover.
