While Artemisia was busy beating people's fathers through planets, Evan and the others were having quite a hard time.
The FCDs had been buffed by Faulin's Celestial King Authority before Artemisia arrived, and that buff would remain as far as Faulin lived.
So was the barrier Faulin had placed around Conroe, something Evan wished Artemisia destroyed before she left.
Conroe was hurrying his power absorption, intending to go and aid his father, but the energy was already being absorbed as fast as possible, so there was not much else he could do but hope his father didn't die within 10 minutes…which was one hell of a tall order.
The other FCDs were attacking Evan and his companions with increased ferocity.
Hines charged at David, Lorethi engaged Laurene in a battle of mages, Elysandre devoted her all to keeping Kayla away from Evan and Fluviel's new CelSols helped him and Theron to face the three Deadly Sin Siblings together.