Chapter 55: [Bonus chapter] The Monster Wave

The usual time such a weapon would take would be roughly one minute. Despite that short time, it felt like a whole year to me.

I kept watching things going around, hoping that nothing would go wrong. Just as the red beam of light started to fade away slowly, I noticed a sudden surge of power coming from that weapon.

"The second attack," the jumper's astonished voice came, "be ready for it."

"We'll deal with it like the other one," I simply shrugged while watching the second attack land fiercely over the top of my head.

If they waited for the first attack to vanish, then it would actually have caused damage to the two of us. After all that statue here needed time to activate its aura of faith.

Plus I wasn't really sure if it could really be triggered twice in a row. So luckily the enemies were impatient and nervous, or they never expected me to deflect their attack like this.