Two people faced immediate danger: Birandar and Mukri. Without a second thought, Harun wrapped Birandar in a cloud of Sovereign Essence while Jiyan grabbed Mukri's tail and hurled him through a Space Portal. Though Jiyan could create a nigh-endless succession of space portals, with her current abilities she could only keep two open at the same time. The second one formed three steps behind her, and as the startled Mukri emerged from it, Jiyan slashed at the blackened branches—slicing them into two.
Connecting to the Blood Matron puppet, Jiyan activated her new toy. Doing the same with his Desolate Corpses, Harun ordered an immediate retreat. But though the corpses didn't waste a second to execute his orders, black rays shot out of the burned treant corpse, piercing through 17 of them—in an instantaneous show of eldritch powers, they withered to ashes.
