Mina stepped forward.
Golden mana erupted around her body.
It didn't merely coat her skin. It rose around her like flame, streaming from her shoulders and shield while brilliant currents wrapped around her arms and legs.
The ground beneath her boots fractured from the pressure alone. Mina raised her shield as one of the crystalline apes came crashing toward her, the thirty-foot monster swinging an arm thick enough to crush a carriage.
"Knight Skill: Golden Fortress!"
Golden mana condensed across Mina's shield.
BANG!
Fist met shield. The shockwave flattened everything within twenty feet.
The crystalline ape's arm stopped.
Mina didn't move a single step. The beast stared down at the tiny human beneath it, and Mina's eyes narrowed before she twisted her waist. "Knight Skill: Mountain-Breaking Reversal!"
She redirected the monster's own momentum, drove her shield beneath its arm and hurled the enormous 4th Order Elite Beast over her shoulder.
BOOM!
