It didn't go as he thought it would. Yes, he knew there would be reds, enough of them to cause trouble, but not for a second did he think there'd be anywhere near the amount that was bearing down on him from every direction. It wasn't like a damn slowly bursting under a massive amount of pressure. It was like the red sea reclaiming its territory after Moses decided to let his arms rest. There was a red everywhere. Hell, it was a choir to see any of the cement grey beneath their rushing numbers.

"No need to count them all" Jimmy muttered, raising his staff and aiming at a group of reds that almost close enough to kill him with their bad, coppery, breaths. "Lamma!" He called as he raised his staff and let loose a wave of invisible blades made out of pure will. Each of the blades found their marks in the blood sacks, causing a dozen or so vampire bellies to burst open. Every one of the vamps that got hit by the spell fell went down, and none bothered to get up. Which would've been cause for celebration, under most circumstances, but because of the twenty vamps leaping over their fellow brothers in arms, streamers and cakes were held off. "Inanis" he said, snapping his fingers and taking a step back. There was a loud POP, a violent movement of air, and then a condensed sphere of what used to be red court vampires.

Another wave went down because blades separating heads from necks had that effect. Before the next one got a chance to form up and aim towards him, Jimmy noted that at least half of the wards were down, which was good enough for him. "Inanis!" He shouted as a hole appeared where two doors used to be. "Now's not the time to risk running into a locked set of doors!" He said as a way to explain the strange act of destruction to anyone near enough to hear.

"Alright people, let's move in and see what kind of fruit we're going to get to reap today." He waved his arm, pointed to the opening and then started moving towards said opening. "Let's get inside." He turned towards Jade, and called "I hope you've got enough strength to open the way because I'm extremely doubtful we're going to be able to come out the same way we went in."

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The close quarters combat was going fine, if you didn’t mind the endless stream of monsters trying to eat your face. With one hand, Jade cut through another vampire and with the other she called up fire and unleashed it into the belly of another. Red court vampires died messy, too much blood and guts. Normally Jade wouldn’t care, but the amount of spilled reds were coating everywhere. The streets were starting to feel a bit slick underneath her boots. It would’ve been terrible and slightly unseemly to trip over gut and have the dozen or so vampires left seize that chance.

The wards were only half gone but it was enough for Jimmy to bust down the door and lead the charge in. Jade considered again to set everything on fire but thought best not to. They might be able to gain some information once they were inside and incinerating any clues would be counterproductive. Jade had only set foot through the door and hesitated. The scent of gunpowder was heavy in the air. This was a fireworks storage? No, it now housed other explosives, the more dangerous kind.

A Way was opened and the vampires that didn’t attack were busy carrying off crates of explosives. The monsters noticed them immediately and screeched. And the biggest red court vampire Jade had ever seen, dropped the crate it was carrying and rushed over. Jade’s first instinct was to stop it by blowing their heads off and she gathered her will for just that but instead she unleashed pure kinetic force. It hit the vampire head on but it shrugged the blow off without slowing down. Jade cursed.