Existential Threat
"Sir, we can't keep provoking more Swarmers! Our maneuvering space keeps getting smaller. The enemy fish-whales aren't blindly chasing after the Everchanger anymore. They have begun to employ more sophisticated tactics such as trying to encircle us. The longer we stay here, the greater the chance we'll get surrounded!"
It did not take as long as Ves thought to rile up the Swarmers milling about on the Spiral Continent.
Large amounts of white fish-whales interspersed with the occasional elite fish-whales had entered into a rabid frenzy as soon as they discovered the presence of a foreign element that was definitely not on their side.
It was as if the Everchanger had killed their mother and taunted them by dangling her corpse in front of their eyes!
When Ves gazed at the projected map, he spotted so many red dots pressed together that they looked like a tide of red!