The First Legendary Beast Master novel Chapter 654

Chapter 654 Make It Rain

Remi prepared her spell to cover the entire area around the north side of the city, with a special bit of focus on not destroying the plants. Most of them had already been smashed by travelling armies, but if anything could be saved, that would be best.

The other sides would hardly notice an Ascended Rank Thunderstorm spell, but with it forming over the whole north side of the city at the same time, it would look more like it was cast from within the walls, where they couldn't easily get at the target.

For the mechanics of placing the spell, Remi was relying on Hawk's mental imagery, but she was fairly certain that she knew what to do, and even if it rained on the city, it shouldn't hurt the buildings or the humans.

[Thunderstorm] was also fairly easy to keep active, as it was channelled and didn't have a huge upfront cost. Remi could just keep it going until the Giants' Shamans dispelled it.

The advantage she had was that, while the spell was being used with minimal damage output, the low cost would make it easy for her to keep the sections that weren't being actively dispelled active.

Compared to most casters, the Naga Queen had excellent elemental control, and a focused dispel effect wouldn't cause the whole spell to collapse.

That would help them sell the idea that it was shamans inside the city that were messing with the weather. If they were in the city, then the storm would be nearly impossible to stop until the battle was over, and the enemy would have to work to deal with it, or send their troops into battle wounded.

The second was the more likely case, as the Giants didn't actually care at all about their allies. Especially the weaker ones here on the North Side, who they would happily sacrifice just to soften up the Capital City before the final invasion force arrived.

Overhead, the clouds began to shift and darken as the wide area spell took effect. At first, Remi wasn't facing any sort of resistance, and the Giants driving the horde forward seemed to think that it was a sign that they were on the right path, as Hawk was reporting that some of them were celebrating.

They were in for a rude awakening.

When the first bolts of lightning hit, the Giants laughed them off, uncaring about a few Ascended Rank lightning streaks.

Even when the rain started, they were mostly unconcerned. The troops could march in the rain, and bad weather would not stop them from toppling the capital today.

But when they realized that the rain itself was eating through their gear and supplies, and that the lightning was spreading all through the hills north of the Capital region, covering a dozen kilometres of land on this side of the city, they began to worry.

[That's impressive. I didn't think that you had that much coverage in you.] Karl congratulated.

[I'm borrowing energy from everyone, since we're not fighting. Just enough that we can all recover what I'm using.] Remi explained.

Karl hadn't even known that was an option. He didn't know how to draw energy directly from the team to use abilities. Perhaps it was a Remi exclusive ability?

On the North Side of the city, where the Giants' weaker allies were attacking, the situation was becoming dire for the incoming monsters. Most of the terrain sloped upwards towards the city from a river valley, meaning that they had to charge up a muddy hill in a thunderstorm to get at the defenders, which was slowing their advance.

The rain was burning through their clothing and their hides, leaving welts and blisters that were quickly turning to deep wounds.

"Sir, they are specialty equipment sent by the Archbishop." The voice replied, and Karl turned to see a young Acolyte of the church, thoroughly soaked from the rain, holding a wooden box for him to inspect. _{ƒreewebηoveℓ.com}