Empowerment - Defense is a Bardweapon empowerment that increases defense. The empowerment has 4 levels, with each level increasing in power. Its default duration is 5 seconds, which can be extended by wearing certain Bard equipment. Like other Bard weapon empowerments, only 1 level of the same empowerment can be active, and when receiving multiple levels of the same empowerment, only the highest level version will be kept.