**Boom! Boom!**  

Lightning filled the battlefield, its brilliance illuminating the chaos. I moved swiftly through the deadly storm.  

"Rain...!"  

**Crash!**  

Lightning struck where Chris had just evaded with a perfectly timed backstep. She paused momentarily, then shouted to me again.  

"Long-range targets are getting hit by targeted lightning—one strike every three seconds! For melee targets, both targeted and random lightning strikes are falling together!"  

"Not easy, huh."  

With a wry remark, I wrapped myself in a barrier formed by the starlight from my sword.  

Swinging my sword rapidly, I created a dense …