‘What is that!’ Marilyn gasped as she looked beyond the falling dust of the statues’ remains; but unlike her racing heart, her head calmly analyzed the situation.

‘It looks like he is wrapping his sword with Lyla’s magic, adding his own mana on top of it and shooting it out.’ Seeing this, Marilyn recalled a piece of information she had heard before. ‘Mana Adjoin!’

It was one of Zich’s skills that her master had told her about before. Using his companion’s magic, Zich increased his power by combining it with his own mana and shooting it out. Not only did it amplify the total power of his attack, but it also inflicted both magic and sword damage; the most surprising thing was that the magic’s properties changed slightly as it responded to Zich’s mana. Even the stone statues that boasted of complete resistance to magic crumbled against the formation of this type of attack.

Marilyn bit her lips and felt a surge of annoyance. It wasn’t because the statues were getting destroyed or that everything wasn’t going as planned.

‘He is supposed to use that skill with me!’

Unlike Zich’s other subordinates who rushed to the frontlines whenever a big battle broke out to slaughter their enemies,...