While Saleen produced a spear for Wild Bear. Half of Lex's mages had almost depleted all their magic chords in the production of scrolls. The other half continued producing more scrolls because of that. These mages did not rest, they were helping the swordmasters incubate the fish eggs.
The mages relied on self-recovery, the magic chords would take about three hours to be regained. The magic traps outside the camp kept getting triggered, so the mages could not rest at all. They had to accompany the swordmasters to investigate the traps.
The result was worrying. Most magic traps had been completely destroyed, but not a single corpse was found. The sand scorpions did not come. The magic beasts who came acted alone, but they were hundreds of times more powerful than the sand scorpions.