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In the name of that idea, these five hundred Naga warriors and two thousand Wise Goblin Mages were prepared to be sacrificed.
There's no way to hold them off, nor for very long, but the goal is to accumulate enough Creation Energy and the power of the rules before failing. Just one or two more occurrences like the previous one would be worthwhile, even if it means immediate elimination and return.
The Mages kept building and reinforcing defense Arrays within this small temporary fortress, layer upon layer, reinforcing them.
By the time the black liquid tide surged up tens of meters high and engulfed the Floating Islands, they had overlaid more than twenty layers of Arrays on this multi-tiered fortress, less than a hundred meters in diameter. With the superimposition of over twenty layers, the originally invisible and transparent Shield turned into a layer of dense white light that almost obscured everything within.
