Even though Harrison's team was relatively successful in pinning the enemy and trapping them underground, it wasn't as one-sided as the previous chapter made it out to be. While they indeed drew first blood, Harrison's team still sustained casualties in the furious firefight.
Realizing that they had no choice, the enemy threw themselves upward the stairs in greater numbers. The confined space – while being used to its maximum potential by Harrison and the others to become the ultimate killing zone – also proved to be a double-edged sword. Powerful, area-of-effect spells that the enemy launched upward combusted, engulfing more than a few of Harrison's teammates in arcane flames, iridescent ice, ethereal earth or lustrous leaves. Despite Harrison's best attempts to protect them with his holy barriers, even his formidable defesnes were overwhelmed by the sheer volume of spells spitting upward into their otherwise firmly entrenched position.
