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The sphere rune activated first, encasing the ice of [Grand Aegis] with a thick layer of lightning that crackled menacingly, adding a defensive layer to his shield.

The tower rune followed, sprouting spiked armaments that proactively targeted the incoming day-elemental rays, launching retaliating thunderbolts, either dispersing them or absorbing them under the rune's pre-programmed influence.

The Endless Sun Sect cultivators realized that they were losing momentum as the others were getting away. They pressed forward more fiercely with a new strategy.

The woman with the scimitars split the air with her blades, sending arcs of fiery, white/yellow energy toward Lassim, while the warhammer wielder charged, aiming to shatter the defensive runes of his shield with brute force.