Pet using barrier????

it went

Sky Snek dealt 41 damage to Dunkelis.
You used <Dango>
Devotion!!
Defended Sky Snek from area of effect attack.
Cast Barrier! Reduced 321 damage.
Received 6115 damage from Dunkelis
You dealt 459040 damage to Dunkelis
Defeated Dunkelis

At first I thought it was Dunkelis using Barrier but then I realized I didn't attack, Dunkelis was the one attacking. I can't use barrier, I'm a paladin not a magic class but you know what does use barriers? Boss monsters. Like the one that I had which was the episode 6 boss. I forgot the name but it was a blue ice dragon that looked like a snake with wings. Oh and it was absolutely HUGE.

I could be wrong but this either means they were always able to cast barrier or the new update upgraded pets? It sure as hell wasn't there before the update at least.

"Cast Barrier" is a hw skill which reduces dmg taken while casting.

It is also available to other classes through equips, xtals, ALs and relics. In this case it is frequently called "cast defense".

For example, Leviam AL has cast defense +5%. That means that while using a skill that has cast time, you have a chance of receiving reduced dmg.

I forgot what the +% does, increase the chance or dmg reduction, if anyone knows you can tell.

At the time I was spamming Holy thrust so that means 3 things seeing as that none of my equips have cast defense+%:

1)Holy thrust now has cast defense+% when being casted.

2)devotion now gives cast defense+% to me or my allies while I was casting holy thrust. It boiled down to devotion specifically because cast barrier only happened when devotion activated.

I'm going with the second option but I'm going to further investigate more. But assuming all this is legit and its not some mistake on my end why wouldn't the devs announce a tweak on a skill? They announced tweaks on other skills so paladins would be treated normally right? Then again it could've always been like that but it just wasn't in the battle log before and it is now.