A powerful and resistant magical barrier withstood the prince's powerful attack, who at that moment was using an Eighth Rank "starting point" power that Mephistopheles had granted him.
Although the magic barrier had prevented the death of the imperial army, one only had to look at the state of the magicians, among whom the weakest had suffered violent reactions from using large amounts of power excessively, and other magicians who had run out of mana reserves were on the verge of collapse.
Seeing the state of the imperial army, Prince Absab considered that he only needed one more strike with his halberd and the magical barrier would be destroyed. Without most of the mages available for the confrontation between the two armies, his army had a chance to face the enemy. His doubts and search for an ideal answer disappeared when he felt the power in his body reach the "midpoint" of the eighth rank.
