The tactical blueprint for Selthia was identical to the one that had broken the other five guardians: do not attempt to slaughter them in a single, decisive engagement that could erase thousands of weaker units via apocalyptic breath, but relentlessly exhaust their stamina with high resistance big units until they inevitably broke.
A slow, safe strategy that should still take too long, but no one trusted corruption now…
So Liu and Sirius were fundamentally forced to maintain their dual-fusion state to check and simply to prevent the indigenous, Platinum 2 and 3 avian predators naturally inhabiting their surveillance zones from violently driving them out of the airspace. Those huge aerial beasts were practically the only native fauna currently escaping the suffocating, cannibalistic wave of the mutant hordes.
