The central school building rose another full floor after Rexar spoke Nox's name. Concrete separated around a body standing beneath it, while every dormant sports beast pressed its numbered plate against the ground.
Nox closed his status screen before moving between the raised foundation and his injured party. Level growth had strengthened his body, but it had not replaced Vasa's heat or returned the blood Kendra and Yeda had lost.
"Nobody approaches the center until we know what obeys him, while sports fighters withdraw through the east route in assigned groups," he said through the faction channel.
"The trial beasts stopped attacking before he spoke, and they are facing the same direction now," Chloe replied from the territory command room.
"That is the part I want measured," he said.
