Lines of green light and a misty white haze with a few gold- lamé sparkles hung in the air within the circumference of Eliza's magic circle.
It was a wondrous sight, like a scene taken directly out of a fantasy story. One that lasted for a little no more than ten seconds.
And when it faded, nearly two thousand adventurers, soldiers, knights and mages, had expressions of surprise adorn their faces as their swords, spears, bows, axes, staves and catalysts were all enveloped in a thin layer of green light that made them deal twice as much damage to the undead monsters.
Even the high-ranked undead and Dullahans who could heal themselves with darkness and death magic found that they were unable to do so after being hit by these green aura-clad weapons.
"I only have six charges left for today, huh?"
Eliza remarked as she snapped her fingers and generated another flower cannon, launching it right at an undead knight that was about to use a particularly dangerous sword skill, given how its sword was glowing ominously and a huge amount of death aura was gathering around it.
The undead knight was knocked off its horse, and knocked into the afterlife, with Eliza turning her gaze to a different direction and launching a flower cannon at a group of undead mages.
She then pointed towards the sly and launched a third flower cannon at the level 300 lich that was about to use magic against her.
The lich's hastily made barrier was shattered into pieces of light as the beam of life-induced energy made its way to its body and knocked it out of the air.
"Thanks! Warrior Priestess!!"
She heard the shout of an A-rank adventurer who charged after the falling lich with a flaming sword, followed by a bright explosion in the sky.
"My class is 'Battle Priestess' and not 'Warrior Priestess…"
Eliza murmured to herself as she turned away from that fight and scanned the battlefield for any groups of allies that needed help.
The set of actions the girl had just completed garnered a lot of attention from the combatants around her, as the ones who had their weapons coated with life aura, noticed that this green aura also surrounded their injuries and healed said injuries, all while reinvigorating them.
Seeing that multiple undead mages were about to wipe out a company of soldiers, Eliza grabbed the Memoria and pointed it towards the direction of the undead, generating a cube-shaped barrier that covered the company and completely blocked the combined magic of the undead.
Right after, she stabbed the spear tip of the staff behind her, piercing it into the skull of a ghoul that was sneaking up behind her.
She then twisted it while infusing it with life magic, causing the upper body of the ghoul to explode into chunks of flesh.
Nevertheless, she was not affected by this explosion, and neither did the pieces of flesh touch her as the moment they came in contact with the aura of life surrounding her, they burned to nothing.
She then stabbed the staff into the ground and heaved a sigh of exasperation as she noticed another group of adventurers about to get done in by undead, using the radiant codex to apply buffs on them while raising her hand to launch beams of concentrated magic energy to the undead.
However, before she did that, a white-robed arm grabbed her hand and pushed it down, with a voice ringing in the next moment.
"Let me, deal with this one."
Immediately after, dozens of light shards appeared in the air, before dropping down atop the heads of the undead and shredding them into pieces.
"I can see why he said you'd need the help of the paladins. If I had known, I would have requested the church send more.
You don't have the magic capacity necessary to continuously buff thousands of soldiers for extended periods of time."
The white-robed woman, the Bishop of the Church of Artemisia and Vessel of the goddess, Amelie Harris, spoke up as she used a handkerchief to wipe the sweat off Eliza's face.
"Thank you."
"You're welcome."
Amelie replied to her before flicking her fingers and sending a huge spear of light towards an undead gryphon that had grabbed an adventurer with its claws, turning back to Eliza right after and continuing.
"Anyway, on the D-Day, I would have the paladins of other churches assist you in deploying the 'thing' that Evan said you have which would be very effective in dealing with that necromancer."
As she spoke, she summoned a golden-coloured staff into her hands, and twirled it around before stomping it on the floor and activating her skill right after.
"Blessing of Light."
A gigantic sphere of golden light appeared in the sky above her head, expanding and flattening out until it was nearly a kilometre wide.
It was then shaped into countless blades of light that dropped down on the entities below them.
When it hit undead monsters, the undead screamed in pain as their skin and bones burned, and when it hit living beings, they gained an aura of light that infused their weapons with the light element, all while giving them a small boost to their base parameters and made undead weakened just by coming near them.
Seeing the undead scream in pain just by coming close to those affected by the aura of light, Eliza only shook her head before pulling out a few things from the pouches on her waist.
"Huh? You're drinking juice? Now of all times?"
Amelie couldn't help but notice Eliza's actions, with her eyes widening in slight surprise as she saw the blonde teenager sipping what appeared to be strawberry juice.
"Nahh…they're potions, placed in juice packs."
"Ohh…lemme guess; Evan gave them to you?"
"Yep."
"Thought so."
The bishop nodded in understanding as she remembered the blonde teenager's boyfriend who seemed to like strawberries a bit too much.
"The sheer number of strawberries seen him toss into his mouth within the past few days is alarming."
"He's eating them raw now? He usually gets them turned into juice first.
I once walked into him stuffing cartons of strawberry juice of various brands into his inventory. There were a few untagged bottles which he told me were the ones he had made specially."
"Maybe he couldn't find a place to get that done this time"
"Or he was just too impatient to wait."
The two looked at each other in silence before sighing and speaking simultaneously.
""He was definitely too impatient to wait.""
The two ladies continued making small talk all while occasionally activating their unique skills and using large-scale support magic.
Not long after, they decided to personally join the fray once more, inadvertently making people see just how crazy strong the both of them were.
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Back at Position A, a certain hero was tossing a few fresh strawberries into his mouth, ignorant of the fact that his girlfriend and one of his acquaintances were discussing his addiction a few thousand miles away.
Immediately after, he kicked off the ground and dashed forward, moving so fast that people could only feel a violent gust of wind when he passed.
He covered hundreds of meters of distance within seconds, dishing out aura-based attacks towards every undead within his range.
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