Overhead, the main battle was coming to a crescendo of violence, and the buildings of the Redwood sprawl and the Fool's Walk district by the river, which were closest to the combatants, were beginning to crumble under the backlash of the massive attacks that were lighting up the sky halfway to the horizon.
As the sprawl collapsed, the residents ran for the few open areas in the district, which was so heavily overbuilt that the market and a few collapsed buildings were the only places that were large enough not to have rubble land on them.
Fortunately, that put many people in the range of Lotus' healing effects, which she was working to extend over the whole market, at the expense of peak healing power.
There were only a few higher ranking guards here anyhow, and most of them were still fighting the Undead, which left a lot of wounded Ascended Rank workers, who didn't need Royal Rank healing to deal with their injuries.
