The fight became more heated and heated. Many mech pilots and fish-whales experienced difficulties as they fought against difficult opponents.
The elite Phaser fish-whales still had a lot of fight left in them! Despite having expended a lot of their energy on repelling the Swarmer invasion, they still had more than enough reserves left to fight against the plunderers that had stolen all of their phasewater.
To them, the fight wasn't solely about rescuing the Phase Kingdom or restoring the Phase King's prestige.
Each of them personally claimed the small pools that the humans and Evolvers had recently plundered. All of the phasewater that they stashed at the bottom of the water pools represented their accumulated savings over many years.
Now that these thieves had callously taken away all of the precious earnings that the Phase King had benevolently bestowed them for their service, how could the elite Phasers not be indignant?