Eryndor laughed alongside Drakarion, who didn't seem to mind the small injuries on his body.
Valentina was clearly not used to it though, even though her injuries were equally as less as Drakarion's.
"Damage Mitigation?"
Eryndor asked. Drakarion smiled and shrugged, while Valentina nodded as well.
It wasn't strange when one thought about it.
Drakarion used Damage Mitigation to transfer a part of damage inflicted on him over to Rodrick.
Valentina similarly used her ability to copy Drakarion's Damage Mitigation and targeted Rodrick.
Therefore, a part of the damage suffered by both of them was transferred over to Rodrick.
Now that I think about it, this kind of ability is unreasonable. You attack me, but I'll transfer a part of it to you. The harder you hit, the harder you'll be hit back.
You'll need to have an extremely tenacious physique to win or even last against someone with this ability. Either this, or you need to have an ability, art or spell which can counter the Damage Mitigation.
Eryndor remembered a game he had played back in college days.
In that game, there were players who picked high HP heroes like tanks and used a build which worked like Damage Mitigation to kill marksmen heroes who had low HP but extremely high attack power.
Disregarding the thoughts in his mind, Eryndor glanced at the Anomaly of Misfortune and Fortune before them.
Surprisingly, not a single mote of light had landed on it.
Is it the power of Fortune at work?
Eryndor couldn't help but have this thought.
So it's misfortune for others and fortune for itself?
Eryndor didn't know if this mechanism was fixed or the Anomaly could flexibly use it.
Holding the anomaly containment box in his hand, Eryndor continued to stare at the Anomaly.
He had to admit, this was one of the better outcomes he had in mind.
Eryndor grunted slightly, enduring the pain brought about by the indiscriminate attacking of the mini-anomalies.
Even though his Passive Regeneration was working at full force, he didn't completely stop feeling the pain.
To his relief, the drain on his energy of Consciousness wasn't as high as he expected.
Passive Regeneration is incredibly energy efficient eh.
On a second thought, it was obvious, because it seemed to be absorbing energy from the particles of light themselves.
Does that mean the anomalies use energy of Consciousness to power their abilities?
Eryndor couldn't be sure of his guess, nor had he heard such kind of information anywhere.
He turned to Drakarion and said, "I am actually not inclined to make a move on this Anomaly now. Our plan is a good one, no doubt, but it would naturally be better if it is carried out by stronger people."
When he said this, his eyes couldn't help but travel to where professor Melissa was battling.
Even Drakarion, whose task was to keep a lookout on the Anomaly, turned his attention to professor Melissa by following Eryndor's gaze.
I guess I overestimated Rodrick's individual combat prowess.
Eryndor couldn't help but have this thought, despite knowing Rodrick's greatest reliance was his now unavailable mind control. One couldn't blame him either.
Professor Melissa was single handedly suppressing Rodrick, while also mobilising the seniors to defend against the mini-anomalies.
And no, it wasn't the seniors mobilised under her command who were counterattacking the mini-anomalies. It was professor Melissa.
This was also the first time Eryndor and his team were witnessing her ability in action. He could feel it was an ability and not a Cultivation Art because of the energy used.
Every offensive attack of hers would split into numerous attacks mid way towards mini-anomalies, with each split attack only suffering a slight decrease in their offensive prowess.
The split attacks would then accurately hit the mini-anomalies.
So her ability is to multiply any attack? Or is it to target multiple enemies at the same time using a single attack?
Eryndor then remembered the properties of the Mystical Artifact assigned to her.
It was mentioned in the report how the Mystical Artifact wasn't necessary given professor Melissa's ability but was simply given to the group as a backup.
That Mystical Artifact perfectly complements professor Melissa's ability. Imagine amplifying the strength of multiple attacks, this can no longer be said to be a slight increase in strength or even doubled.
The increase would be insane. Professor Melissa with the Mystical Artifact would be a fucking monster.
Naturally, if Eryndor could infer that, the rest of them could do it too. Each of them had looks of amazement in their eyes as they glanced at each other.
One could say mind control was really too broken of an ability to be able to control such a powerful person as well.
Eryndor suspected that Rodrick's mind control might've been on the second level, or even at the peak of second level to accomplish such feats.
The four of them just kept exchanging glances, not knowing what to do now that the Anomaly they were supposed to control wasn't even doing anything.
"Let's just…wait?"
Eryndor tilted his head and spoke. They would still maintain the necessary level of caution but no action was required at this point.
The three of them nodded, having similar thoughts. The battle went easier than anticipated.
Valentina was also brave enough to recognise the mistake she had made earlier.
One could say Rodrick's mind control being inactivated was the turning point of the battle.
If she had intervened at that time, Rodrick might have turned cautious and withdrawn the active control, with there being plenty of energy left still.
In that case, the act of Erin cutting the permanent passive connection wouldn't have mattered as much because Rodrick could simply re-establish the connection. In other words, they would've wasted the one-time help of Erin.
Eryndor looked at Erin standing on the edge of the pit.
Turns out it was completely unnecessary to keep Erin visible to Rodrick to keep him cautious.
He thought with some relief. Professor Melissa was way stronger than he had thought, strong enough to suppress Rodrick and the Hand of Destruction at the same time.
With Rodrick sustaining more and more injuries, the battle seemed to be heading towards the end.
Even the Hand of Destruction had reverted back to its original form after all the mini-anomalies were targeted one after another.
As Rodrick's injuries continued piling up and everything seemed to be coming to an end, something happened.
The Anomaly of Misfortune and Fortune suddenly moved.