The group barely had time to respond.
Selthia, visible now from where she had settled at the base of the beast's head, watched them with the attention of someone who had said everything they came to say and was now observing whether what they left behind was going to function the way they planned.
A thousand tons didn't need to be fast to be urgent, and these were fast enough on top of it.
Ren's spatial jump carried two people. Liora's jump carried two more.
Hikari took the last of them, and when she landed she was visibly shaking with the effort of a triple jump across a distance equal to the full thickness of the attacking beast, a triple jump for someone whose mana was what it was without the multi-beast architecture that Ren and Liora had behind their own jumps.
She needed a moment to stand straight without support, one hand finding someone to lean on while the rest of her caught up with what she had just asked of herself.
