At first, the more time passed, the happier Phoenix's members were. Each minute allowed them to add more mines, gather more wood, and make more expendable weapons for their ballistae with the wood they had brought in with their inventories.
Sadly, temporary runes couldn't survive their inventories, and real enchanted weapons required too much time to make. The guild simply didn't have the resources to spare, what with everything else going on.
However, when an hour had passed, they started to worry. Wondering why their opponent had yet to attack.
Normally, during the preliminaries, at least, the lower-ranking guild would need to go on the offensive. A draw, after all, does not cause a shift in points during the preliminaries (or, in fact, during normal matches). For the finals, however, there needed to be a clear winner. And forcing the weaker team to engage seemed in poor taste.
