As a jarring vibration buzzed against his teeth and rattled his ribs.
He tensed, expecting an attack, not because of the Aegis Phalanx, but because of the adrenaline still coursing through his veins, but the attack never came, so Reidar didn't even bother looking up. Not immediately, at least.
As he sat on a slab of broken concrete, his lungs burned as if he had inhaled glass. The mana exhaustion was far from a vague fatigue, manifesting instead as a throbbing ache in his temples and a cold numbness spreading through his fingertips.
That was the result of his fighting so much and for so long.
Regardless, he didn't let his summons disappear; in fact, he was surrounded by thousands of level 299 creatures. Most of them were Twin Boulderback Behemoths, but they weren't the only ones.
