While Ketis became embroiled in a duel against Captain Wenter of the Hydra Battalion, the situation outside Ulimo Citadel became more dire for the Larkinson Clan!
The situation seemed hopeful at first. Through channeling Lufa's glow, Ves managed to save a lot of stranded and isolated Living Sentinel mechs.
It wasn't easy to maintain such a powerful field that caused the surrounding darkness to recede. Ves went through his partially-charged P-stone so quickly that he had to order Nitaa to stop by the vault and bring out all of the other P-stones that contained some of his spare energy.
He was draining months of diligent energy savings in a matter of minutes! Projecting and amplifying a design spirit's glow so that it could encompass a large volume of space demanded a huge amount of energy.