As the expanding purple aura reached Marcus the blue glow from the power of his unique skill Shield of the Just got even brighter and fought back the demon's power.
Still, it was not quite enough to fully negate the effects of the demon's own unique skill and Marcus felt his physical stats dropping.
In the wake of this they all stopped their charge and retreated a bit to assess what was going on
Quickly Marcus opened up his status and saw that his agility and strength had dropped by around five percent.
The others without the same protection that he had were definitely worse off.
'Lyra how bad did it hit you?' Marcus asked over telepathy seeing that she had also opened up her status.
'My agility and strength are down by thirty percent.' She responded with a grimace.
It seemed that everyone else was in the same boat as her and their fighting power had just been drastically reduced.