Several minutes before...
"I'll leave killing the fodder to you. Earn yourselves as much cumulative mana as you can," Replicus said.
Pherdanta nodded, her face livid with stern confidence. However, she had to express a little concern of hers.
"What if the Faction leaders are close?" she asked. "Their compulsion and Territories—"
"Don't worry about that. I will be watching from your armour, remember? You'll be fine. I have ways to deal with compulsion, and as for Territories, Incandescent Stage experts have done well to hide the fact that projecting their Territories is not a simple fair. Every activation requires double the total amount of mana they currently have."
"What?" Grim asked with a funny face. "Double? Then how do they do it?"
Allora's face lit up.
"Creeds?" she said in a high voice.
Replicus nodded.
