Once Shi Feng finished giving his orders, Anna raised her staff and began chanting a spell.
In an instant, a magic array with a radius of over thirty yards formed beneath Anna's feet, and one pitch-black and one silvery-white magic array spiraled around her. The moment the arrays appeared, the ambient mana surged toward Anna as though driven mad.
"What incredible mana!"
Jing Wuming glanced at Anna, who had remained in the back row without making a move until now, his heart filled with shock.
Though he wasn't a magic-class player and had no particular sensitivity to mana, he had seen powerful NPCs channel magic before — and even those third-tier NPCs hadn't drawn upon mana anywhere near as terrifying as what Anna was wielding right now.
Generally speaking, the more mana channeled, the more powerful the spell.
In other words, the spell Anna was about to cast would be even stronger than anything those third-tier magic-class NPCs could manage.
Compared to Jing Wuming, who was merely a Berserker, Yan Ya felt the difference far more keenly. As a Druid, her perception of magical elements surpassed even most other magic-class players.
"She's cultivating both Light and Dark!" Yan Ya stared at Anna in surprise.
Normally, magic-class NPCs and players each specialized in a single school of magic. For example, among Elementalists, some focused on Fire, others on Ice, and so on. While they could use spells from other schools, their primary school was far more powerful.
But Anna was currently absorbing both Light and Dark magical elements from the surrounding space — and in staggering quantities. That meant she had dual mastery of both schools.
Dual mastery wasn't merely about being able to cast spells from two schools. It was about fusing the two together, achieving power far beyond the sum of their parts — far more terrifying than a simple one-plus-one.
Among players, Yan Ya had only ever seen two people who could dual-cultivate two schools of magic in the entire Fire Dragon Empire, which showed just how rare it was. The two of them possessed terrifying combat strength and were known among the empire's magic-class players as the Fire Dragon Dual Mages. Rumor had it that either one of them individually could rival a third-tier Class in power.
But now, Anna — a direct NPC guard — was also a dual cultivator. This level of rarity likely surpassed even those Dark-Gold-tier guards.
Before everyone could recover from the tidal wave of mana Anna had summoned, she raised her staff high with a sharp motion.
Dozens of magic arrays materialized around the Frost Army Lord — some black, some white — all swirling around him. From them, spear after spear of fused Light-Dark energy shot forth.
Each of those holy spears carried enough power to seem capable of tearing space itself apart. All thirty-six of them struck the Frost Army Lord head-on, and even the Frost Army Lord couldn't help but let out a miserable shriek.
-510,354!
-503,474!
…
Damage numbers in the five-hundred-thousands popped up one after another, so devastating that everyone on the battlefield stared with their eyes nearly popping out of their skulls.
A single spell — and the Frost Army Lord's HP, which had barely budged despite their relentless assault, dropped visibly by a significant chunk. The sheer destructive power exceeded their entire raid's output combined.
"A third-tier NPC?" Jing Wuming stared at Anna and couldn't help but voice the thought.
A single hit dealing over five hundred thousand damage — aside from a third-tier NPC, he couldn't think of any other explanation.
Their own attacks barely scratched twenty thousand per hit. Anna's strikes dealt over five hundred thousand. Even accounting for a level gap of more than ten, that kind of disparity in damage output simply didn't make sense.
Yet Anna was genuinely Level 96 and bore the emblem of a second-tier Class. All of this proved she was, without question, a second-tier NPC — and that left Jing Wuming utterly bewildered.
It wasn't just Jing Wuming. The core members of Zero Wing's main raid were equally dumbfounded. None of them had expected Anna to be this powerful.
Only Shi Feng remained completely unfazed.
Anna was an Epic-tier guard, and after transitioning to the top-tier Class of Light-Dark Saint, her potential had jumped from 105 to 113 — the highest he had ever seen. At the time of her Class advancement, she had only been Level 80, but she had now reached Level 96. The stat growth from that potential was enormous, and combined with a top-tier Class, Anna's current strength — though technically still second-tier — already surpassed ordinary third-tier NPCs.
This was exactly the confidence Shi Feng had relied on when bringing this half-baked team to challenge the Frost Army Lord.
He had originally intended for Anna to fight using summoned creatures, but summons ultimately required her to expend mental effort to control them, preventing her from unleashing the full power of the Light-Dark Saint. Besides, with Kai Te already serving as the main tank for this world boss, Lord-tier and Grand Lord-tier summons had become redundant.
After Anna completed her second-tier forbidden spell, Light-Dark Baptism, she immediately followed up with a third-tier spell — the hereditary magic she had only learned after reaching Level 90: Light-Dark Detonation.
Two massive energy spheres appeared in Anna's hands, one brilliant and one dark, hovering in midair before hurtling straight toward the Frost Army Lord.
-1,434,884!
-1,441,067!
Damage figures exceeding a million popped up, and for a moment, everyone froze in stunned silence.
"That kind of DPS… she really is a one-woman raid." Gu Jiuji watched as Anna bombarded the Frost Army Lord without pause, and his perception of magic-class players underwent a complete overhaul.
At this point, forget their Shura Adventurer Team — even if every member of Zero Wing sat on the sidelines, Anna alone probably dealt enough damage to finish the job. It would just take a little more time to bring down the Frost Army Lord.