Even though the blast perimeter was restricted, Isiah managed to strike every single creature positioned in his immediate vicinity.
Only the goat scavengers suffered the full brunt of the lightning array; the heavy-armored knights simply absorbed the shock and retreated a few paces to re-evaluate their target.
The goat scavengers collapsed onto the dark earth, writhing and screaming in agony. Isiah recognized instantly that the lightning alone wasn't responsible for their intense suffering. Whenever he channeled his dark magic under pressure, residual fragments of his dormant Divine Energy inevitably bled into the invocation, mixing unpredictably with the dark spellwork.
While the unintended energy bleed technically corrupted the purity of the spell's original script, the resulting hybrid magic proved devastatingly effective against low-tier dark entities.
