"Hurry up and finish off the remaining eight Grand Archmages, you dumb bear," Ashu muttered in his heart.
Dread of the Abyss wasn't a zero-cost ability.
Ymir had only used the 'original version' of the skill for a moment, and she'd turned pale as a sheet, barely able to stand.
Even though that 'original version' had been elevated through the system's Critical Return into Dread of the Abyss, its energy consumption was still immense.
Even for someone like Ashu—who could attack and recover simultaneously—it was difficult to sustain it for long.
Ashu didn't want to completely wipe everyone out.
After all, what he sought was balance, not to lead the Demon army in exterminating humanity.
He wasn't anti-human by nature; everything he did was for his own survival.
So—
On a subjective level, he couldn't keep using this ability for too long—he feared he might literally scare the weaker soldiers to death.
