"I'm going to have to win this one way or another," Kayden muttered, with his eyes fixed on Elian's blank expression.
He levitated further into the sky, while forming another orb of lightning. But instead of firing it directly, he let it drift upward until it hovered high above the battlefield.
"Rain of Lightning," he whispered, pointing toward Elian.
At once, countless bolts of lightning shot down from the hovering orb, one after the other in quick succession.
Elian deflected the first bolt by employing the same wind spell that was drawn into reality, as before.
And then with a single wave of his paintbrush wand, Elian made several iron rods manifest around him.
Each one appeared already half-buried in the ground, positioned with precise spacing.
Their purpose was to act as lightning rods, intercepting every bolt from Kayden's attack and channeling the energy harmlessly into the earth.
