Everything had happened quite a bit too fast for Siegmund's liking and he was about to answer Kaspar's statement with one of his own, but the explosion in the city distracted him from offering said statement towards the rich merchant. For a second, he stared at the fire and the plumes of smoke rising from the shipyard that was the pride of this city, however, he realized that he had to act quickly and turned towards one of his mages.

"Take another Hunter and inform the rest that are not deployed here to head towards the shipya..." however, his statement was cut short as the Lich spoke, slightly unnerved about what the undead being was speaking about and even if he was about to continue his order to his Hunter mage, he could no longer do it, for the mage he was speaking to was just tossed into a wall as the lich used a spell on his own mage and before he knew it, he was the one surrounded now, his soldiers quickly shifted to quickly cover all the exposed spots of this formation, however, things were about to get even worse now.

Everyone that was even remotely hostile to the Lich started to helplessly float through the air, making them all easy targets for the attacks of the powerful undead or his minions. The first thing Siegmund did was cast his own spell Iron Body. While the spell did not make him completely invulnerable, it would allow him to take some punishment without outright dying. However, he had not forgotten about his Hunters, he knew that the Lich would likely do something to prevent them from canceling the effects of the gravity spell, so instead, he shouted out to his mages.

"Seven mages, cast protection spells on as many people as you can, every life is valuable here!" he shouted. "And you three, use any offensive spell you may know, shoot down as many undead mages as you can, I imagine that the Lich does not want this spell of his canceled, but I can also imagine that he would not be able to maintain a spell of this magnitude and try to counter any spell we might try to use to cancel his spell!" he shouted to the rest of his mages. The mages, though floating through air as well, nodded at their master and proceeded to do as he ordered them, whether any of them succeeded was another matter entirely.

"As for my brave soldiers, all I can ask of you right now, is the only thing we can do... brace yourselves for the worst!" Siegmund had rarely felt helpless and this time was one of the times he truly felt so and needless to say, he did not like this feeling at all.