The knights and mages were beginning to feel cornered. The black firey smog continued to slowly expand and with nowhere to retreat, a wall of earth was instead raised in front of them.
"Retreat for now! We can't contain this thing" Balin gave out his order. Immediately, all of the mages canceled their casting or shot the spells into a wall before running ahead of the knights towards the still opened boss door.
Usually when a boss appears the door would close and the portal to the next floor would do the same but it seemed that due to the peculiar nature of Gwydion's spawn neither of these things happened.
This also meant that Ed was left with no more choices.
'It's over' Ed did not succeed. The knights also lost a fair amount of personnel but could it be compared to Ed's own losses?
