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The Mainland

"Ready yourselves; we all will have only a few seconds after the night blade appear," said Patriarch Bradford; nine minutes have passed since he had asked them to prepare for the final charge.

They have been preparing, but not in an obvious way; there is no change in their energy circulations as they fight. Though they are taking increasingly desperate measures, they have avoided taking extreme measures, nothing that would alert the old snake.

While their inheritance and bloodline could keep much of the interference out, she did not dare to let her guard down and asked others to same.

They fought the Grimms, harnessing more and more power from their cores; even knowing doing that would spread the curse more, they had no other choice, half of their power had been already sealed by the Grimms, and now, another the rest is sealing away rapidly.