Elle raises her defenses. She has a bunch of modifications on her heart/core made with evil intent. Her defenses automatically detect such alterations and erase them, then proactively search for the next major threat and react against it.
Her walls become more robust, a new chemical compound discovered which ablates against any incoming attacks and sticks to them.
New dimensions slide into the stack, giving the field around her core and system an incredibly layered, dense, and changing set of defenses.
The sentinels and foundations are replenished and missing ones recreated as soon as they're lost, eyes healing themselves as first priority.
Trace, the Tower, has full control over his own wish energy, and can use it at will.
Elle's core grows a special shielded substance around it, a shell called adamantium made of rare magical metal which adds a spiritual factor to any defense it's a part of.
Her cores begin to move and spin around each other, eyes tracking everything. More grow into place. The perceptual shield grows more complete and more flexible about how it acts to shield her.
The entire sphere teleports away, traces masked by its anti-Pathing system, and begins to move with intent, seeking out dead or barren planets as a source of thread.
Elle's ability to decide what continues now works automatically to protect her against unwanted attacks.
The network of brains in and around her core begins to further expand, allowing her more cognitive capacity. Fountains grow larger the longer they're in place, outputting more Light that can be spun into more thread or otherwise used for protection and healing and understanding.
Small sub-patterns holding Elle's seeds spin off and stray, a small link maintained that makes one of them go online if the main pattern is destroyed or incapacitated.
The Tower's precognitive ability grows several times more powerful and precise as energy is focused in that direction. Elle is armored to the teeth and cloaked beyond most forms of detection; anything which does work gives inaccurate readings.