Water shield

Water magic is more defensive than fire magic. Using the natural strength of your branch of magic should clearly give you an advantage. The water shield is a defense spell that creates a thin dome of highly pressurized water either over the mage or another place that should be protected. It costs some energy, but the water is so pressurized, that it is able to block swords, arrows and most magic attacks. Only very powerful attacks and dwarfen gunpowder can break through it.

You take a deep breath and let the mana flow through your body. In your right hand appears a circle of blue light. The runes you focus on rush through the circle. With the last rune, you close your hand and focus on the place around you. Immediately your surroundings change. Water from the air gets pulled towards you, builds drops and starts creating a dome around you. Grass and leaves dry out and the ground around you gets as hard as stone. Within one or two seconds, you are under an thin dome made of fluid water. As thick as a leaf, but as sturdy as a metal plate.

The chimera immediately stops it’s attack. It tries to understand what you just did. While the chimera walks up and down in front of you and growls frustrated, you begin to realize that you created a stalemate. You are safe, but the time runs against you. Tocar is still poisoned and you will eventually run out of energy. You won time and can focus on your next step now, but you need to try something else. Something less defensive. You still can attack with the sharp ice spikes or the windblade.