"Kill him! Even if you have to lay down your lives, I want that imperial dog dead!"
A household matriarch commanded her people to commence their attack, intending to use them as cannon fodders to exhaust Vaan's strength. Other supremacist matriarchs also voiced similar orders.
Without knowing the extent of Vaan's strength, they didn't intend to risk their own necks to find out.
"Die—!!!"
Shortly after the witches sentenced Vaan to death, thousands of battle witches fired their offensive spells at once.
However, Vaan calmly faced the incoming spells without any intention of evading them. Instead, a spherical field of blue flames quickly covered his body, shielding him from the attacks.
Against a Peak-stage Demigod-rank fire barrier, all ice spells evaporated, fire spells extinguished, earth spells crumbled, and wind spells absorbed, restoring the barrier's durability and strengthening it instead.