"Split up!" I ordered, ducking behind some columns as several fire spells bombarded me.
If we had a tank, maybe I could have them stand in front with a shield and accept this kind of bombardment. In fact, that's exactly what our party was missing. At first, I had never had to think about such things as party dynamics. I got Lydia from convenience and aided Miki because of her effectiveness from ghosts. Even Celeste, who had good magic ability, was someone I accidently ran into. All four of us together made a somewhat well-rounded party, but what we were really missing was a high constitution person to take the hits for us.
Would that be a Knight or something like that? Well, I didn't even know if our party would stay together once I freed everyone. I was thinking about continuing to dungeon dive, but I'd need to form a real party for that. I certainly didn't want to hire a Knight slave and have them get hurt because of my selfish desires.
Anyway, the point was that my Holy Circle couldn't hold off his bombardment for more than a few seconds and we had nothing like a tank, so we had to split apart and in turn split up his fire. It seemed like a good idea until I realized just how much magic this guy was shooting out. He appeared to be tossing out a few spells a second, more than enough that all three of us were busy. I couldn't imagine how Celeste had managed on her own when all of his magic was concentrated on her. Then again, she was a magician too, so maybe she had a magic counter that could directly fight against him.
"I will destroy you!" He screamed.
Was it necessary for the boss to scream things like this? It was really distracting when you were trying to defeat a boss. In fact, wasn't he busy spell casting? How could he even talk in between all of his spell chanting? If only I could shut him up, maybe we'd get a window to attack.
"Wait… silence!" I called out, continuing to move as spells stuck the ground beside me.
"Eh?" Lydia said, dodging a bit better, but failing to close any distance on the ghost.
"We need to use a spell like Silence on him!" I explained. "RPG tactics. He's a spell caster. If we can block his speech, his spells will definitely weaken!"
Lydia's eyes brightened. "Ah! Master is smart! So, you have an ability to silence him?"
"Ah… no…"
"Ahhhh…. M-Master!" Miki cried, not nearly as nimble as me or Lydia, she was having the most difficulty avoiding the attacks. "H-help!"
I thought about all of the abilities that I had. Was there anything we had that could work? None of my abilities worked on spells like this. What I needed was a new ability. However, you couldn't just come up with a new ability. Wait… maybe you could! Combination skills! They both had a combination skill based off of Spirit Fire, but neither had a combination skill based off of Mana Dust!
Switching to Hero and Slave Master, I turned to Lydia. "Give me a moment!"
"Yes, Master!"
With Slave Status Up now boosting her, Lydia tossed herself at the enemy, using her Quick Attack to close the distance. Meanwhile, I used the skill analysis to look through Miki's skills while pulling the fairy dust from my ring. As soon as it reached the air, there was a sudden pause in attacks. The lack of exploding fireballs and heat on my ass caused me to pause and turn back to see Karr. Lydia had closed the distance, but Karr floated higher up, and was now outside her range. Hey, that was cheating!
"You… where did you find that!" Karr pointed at the bottle in my hand.
"What, this?"
"How did you get that fairy dust? That's mine! It's mine!" Karr's form seemed to distort into something more monstrous.
He launched his next attack, specifically aiming all of his rage at me.