"I thought you dragged me here because they forced you to supervise the test and because you wanted to impress Sauce." Zolgrish said.
"Master, why lights blink?" Ratpack asked.
"What lights, you silly creature? We can perfectly see in the dark. There are no lights in the control room." Zolgrish hated it when his assistant disturbed him in the middle of an important experiment.
"Those lights." Ratpack pointed at the holographic console where the integrity indicators of Urgamakka now looked like a Christmas tree.
"Oh, that." Inxialot said. "It means that someone is breaching the city and that the lives of the apprentices are at risk."
"Alarm?" Ratpack pointed at the emergency lever.
"And lose precious data?" Both Liches said in horror. "People die every day, that's why we all have phylacteries. We'll contact the Council as soon as the fight ends."