Outside the coliseum, Phoenix was trying to lead the party toward Astaroth's last known location. But the undead horde kept pushing them into side streets, with their numbers suddenly increasing in some places, and reducing in others.
Phoenix quickly understood that whatever was controlling them, didn't want them to rejoin Astaroth, and it perplexed her. She had already forgotten which building on her map Astaroth had gone into, and could no longer find her way to him.
As things were currently, she didn't know where they were anymore, and things looked bad. The horde of undead had steadily gone back to its former numbers, and ghouls were already battering them from above again.
The party fought back as hard as they could, but the damage was piling up, as Jeanne's mana pool was dwindling. Phoenix knew she and Violette couldn't channel their full powers again for a good while, and their options kept shrinking.
