The opening flurry blinked past, and miraculously everyone was still standing. What had surprised Alice greatly was the creature's ability to summon lightning. She didn't know if it was a magical ability, and she lacked the time and safety to detect magic to tell. Alice also lacked the ability to suppress it if it was magic, her rune-carving taking far too much time and concentration during this encounter.

[color=royalblue]"I am not sure how you could think that creature could be slain in a single stroke, Ser Knight,"[/color] She said as an aside to Nicademus. Her words were spoken without doubt, and followed with plan; [color=royalblue]"Argon, Nicademus, get it's attention. I shall try and shield us from it's lightning."[/color]

And with that she started pulling energies to herself. She let off two arcane missiles for good measure, only imbuing with a small amount of focus and energy since she was saving herself for the lightning shield. Both magic missiles arced up in the air over the heads of Nicademus and Argon before sweeping back near to the ground, then sweeping wide into either side of the creature.

And with that she focused all of her efforts on protecting against electrical attack. Focusing magic that much required much incantation and channelling. She near shouted the words, mostly for effect to try and sway the beast's attention, and her hair stood on end. It was by far the least efficient way of using arcane energy, but effort was rewarded and a spell shield that specific provided an almost faultless barrier. Which is exactly why she prayed the beast's projectile abilities were limited to electricity and not just elemental. The latter would be disastrous at this point.

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