I will do the countdown.

"Stop! Don't do it, Venessa!" Clara suddenly shouted at Venessa when she realized what the latter was about to do.

Venessa, who had doubts about her actions from the start, hesitated after hearing her shout and decided not to cast her spell from the middle of the encirclement.

If Hanry were in her place, he would not have hesitated even for a second and just fired his spells at the drake. The only reason that he was not attacking it right now was that he was afraid that his spell might hit Clara because of all the confusion.

Instead, Venessa chose the second best thing that she could do to protect Clara. And that was to run away from there.

However, there was clearly not enough time to run away as the drake had already reached the front lines of the formation.

It was only a matter of seconds before the drake would kill its way through all the mercenaries.