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[h2][center][color=fff200]Saef Harken
Lenuria-Giant Crabs and Khaine[/color][/center][/h2]

Ordinarily procedure would be to deal with every threat in an area before searching corpses. The battlefield has a way of messing with procedure however. Two squads moved in to search the downed crabs for the staff while the rest stayed on overwatch, keeping an eye on their surroundings. There were no significant forces nearby. Although a singular Demon was showing up on sensors, apparently watching. It was making no move to attack so they let Bonesword be. This was not a search and destroy mission after all.

In the waters above Saef was having only a mildly more difficult time. A flick of his wrist turned his scepter into a blade. The golden blade that sprang forth was ten feet long and easily sliced through the Demonic chains on one side of the trap. As he shot through the gap the Thaumaturge's attention was drawn to the portals from which the chains had sprung. His mind tracing out the patterns of magic holding them open.

[color=fff200][i]Hmmmm. Not massively different from the portal back home. And these aren't being powered by an apocalyptic storm and human sacrifice. If I do this...[/i][/color]

A countetspell shot from his shell of light and slammed into the nearest portal. It flickered and wavered for several seconds before resolidifying. A grin crept over his face beneath the helmet. That hadn't worked, but it had been close. A little longer and he would be able to dispel them with ease.

The spikes of light continued doing what they had formed to do. [i]Homing[/i] in on Khaine once more. The swarm of significantly more than a dozen projectiles flew with essentially no water resistance. With very sharp tips and almost frictionless sides there wasn't a whole lot the water could do to slow them down.

OOC: The shields don't work on any strange, "Less is More" principles. If you take one strong hit and split into two strikes that each have half the power of the original strike it will still take the same amount of power from the shield to block them. What I said earlier is that there is a minimum amount of power needed to activate and block an attack. That means that you could do what Apia's bees did and put less energy into the attack than it takes to activate and block it.

Of course this is a comparatively long term form of attack. It might save you energy but it won't save you time.