A luminous construction was seen flying across the sky at high speed, leaving a faint trail of light in its wake. It sped through the air at three to four times the speed of an orbiter.
Aboard the construct were a group of people - Magus Bellaine with the surviving dozen or so men, Emery's group of six, the Bird of Prey Vida and the Dragon bloodline Zach, the two Nephilim descendants plus six other privileged acolytes.
They were those who had survived the massacre by the stage 7 abyss creature.
In such a short period of time - a mere two hours, the initial group of fifty had lost a total of twenty-two saint-level fighters, five privileged acolytes, and two magus-level figures - Magus Kenneth and the Chief Commander of this operation, Magus Raynor.
