As the ranks of the White Hand were rapidly thinned as both chevaliers and workers were either felled or disappeared in the attack by their invisible foe, one of the Battle Mages rushed towards the center of the storage room, some dozen or more feet away from Liaena and Sathrielle.

"Rally to me!" The Battle Mage called out as he held his staff up in front of him, before slamming the bottom of it into the stone floor below him. As the bottom of the metal staff contacted with the ground, a blue light was emitted from the point of impact; expanding into a shield around the mage that was large enough to host a small group.

An arrow had already been released by one of the sentinels - aimed at the mage - but as the arrow flew towards him, it hit the surrounding shield and broke upon impact; the pieces falling to the floor.

Five of the remaining White Hand chevaliers, including another battle mage, came rushing from either side to seek protection under the shield recently erected by their fellow battle mage. There were no signs of any workers in the storage room anymore, all having either fled or been incapacitated by the Night Elves.

"What about her?" Asked one of the chevaliers as he primed his musket behind the shield, looking through his mask in the direction of Sathrielle.

"Forget about her, she can handle herself! We got bigger problems right now!" Answered another one of the Chevaliers under the shield, wielding a sword and a pistol.
"Light, light; we need to illuminate our attackers!" 

The other battle mage who had entered the protective sphere was quick to respond to his request, and began to summon a series of magical orbs of light that he tossed around in the storage room; illuminating large swathes of ground as the orbs cast a bright light all around them as they traveled, and leaving little darkness for the Night Elves to hide in!

Behind them, two of the four knights had begun to move, having seen some of the Night Elves on the walkway up above. The two split up, each of them taking their own separate staircase to the walkway as they stomped along, feeling confident that their heavy armor and shield would render them almost invulnerable to the Night Elves and their arrows.

In the meantime, Kathlin's shield was steadily growing weaker.

Though mildly distracted by the antics of the bold boy, Liam, Sathrielle could sense the weakness. Conjuring yet another spell in her other hand, she suddenly unleashed an arcane wind upon Kathlin's barrier, which immediately crumbled and dissipated!

"I tire of playing with children!" She uttered as she attempted to move, only to realize that she was still stuck in the goo gluing her to the floor. But instead of yielding, she suddenly straightened herself up; before the whole mage vanished in a magical blink!

Though gone, Sathrielle would reappear in less than a blink of an eye later; appearing right in front of Kathlin! Without warning, she would ram the tip of the crystal sphere of her staff right into Kathlin's lower abdomen! The punch was enough to beat the air straight out of the girl's lungs as Kathlin fell forward with her torso! Grasping the shaft of her staff with both hands, Sathrielle would hold it out to the side as to bring it about in a swing, but just as the Battle Mage had started the swing; she would disappear again!

This time, Sathrielle immediately reappeared behind Kathlin, the swing of her staff now fully underway!

Her staff would be directed at the side of Kathlin's knee, and hit with a painful force that would completely swipe the girl's feet out from under her, and send her crumbling, breathless, to the ground!

"Give up!" Sathrielle stated as she turned towards Liaena, Liam and Blastwit; holding up her left arm next to her, her hand glowing with arcane energy as she prepared yet another spell. Though it was uncertain whether or not a surrender could even be made in time for her to not cast it!

The unfortunate Captain, Blastwit, seemed highly apprehensive about this; instinctively trying to pull back away from Liaena and Liam whom now sat right in the ruthless battle mage's crosshairs, but was stopped by Liaena's dagger which was dangerously close to his family jewels, whereas any sudden move from either of them could have severe ramifications!