The ground cracked east to west, four meters ahead, as the world seemed to split apart, and the first demon cleared the lip of the crack with the unhesitating efficiency it always had.
I cast Arc Lightning combined with Surge before the demon's six limbs had fully found the ground.
No hesitation or half measures, I was going all out from the start, knowing that before I die, I needed to push my two main combat spell disciplines forward as much as possible.
The arc left my staff at full Anima Depth and full Concentration and full Staff Resonance, and the discharge was the cleanest, brightest cast I had produced in any loop, pale blue-white, larger than any individual cast I had thrown before, the shape of it singing in the air as it traveled.
