Even worse, the electrical output of Nadia’s Thunder Guard was so high that Raphtalia and Filo couldn’t even attempt to attack. Even if I used Change Shield to switch my Float Shield to a shield that would give the electricity somewhere to go again, there was just so much lightning surrounding us that it wouldn’t even matter!

“Ugh . . . Even for little ol’ me, this is a bit . . . much . . .”

I looked over at Nadia. She was still smiling, but I could see a sense of urgency in her expression. I wasn’t sure if it was because she was taking damage from her own lightning or if Raphtalia’s and Filo’s attacks had taken their toll.

“You’re not making this easy, you know.”

Nadia stabbed at my back forcefully with her harpoon, but it simply made a loud thud and showed no sign of penetrating. The fact that she couldn’t use defense rating attacks, like the old Hengen Muso lady, was my only consolation. Otherwise, even I would have been in some serious trouble.

“Here I go!”

“Me toooo!”

It wasn’t like Raphtalia and Filo had just been hanging out doing nothing, while staring at the wall of lightning—they had been preparing to use skills. They couldn’t really get close, so they would need to use either a ranged magical attack or a skill.

“Wind Blade! Vacuum!”

Raphtalia took a quick-draw stance before unsheathing her katana and hurling a blade of wind at Nadia.

“Drifa Wind Shot!”

Filo seemed to have fired off a highly condensed ball of wind. They were up against a dense wall of lightning, after all. It was obvious they had put some thought into choosing their attacks. Raphtalia’s skill made a loud cracking sound as it smashed through the wall, and Filo’s magic followed right behind.

“Yeah! Nice work! Attack Support!”

A dart appeared in my left hand and I stabbed Nadia with it. The stabbing itself had basically no effect, but the effect of the Attack Support skill would increase the damage of the following attack twofold. Would she be able to withstand that?

“Oh?”

Nadia raised her harpoon high overhead as if to strike down the oncoming attack, but apparently casting two spells at once was too much even for her. Raphtalia’s and Filo’s attacks were nothing to make light of, either.

“I guess I have no choice, do I?”

Nadia took her harpoon and . . . broke it in half?! When she did, the power inside of it . . . some kind of magical power came flooding out. I felt an explosion of magic power originating from the harpoon.