I summoned my pefighs and cloak. That was all I remembered before I blacked out.

***

Shadeath, Ordeath, and Abjwe sat on a log, next to where Arjun was passed out, blue lightning circulating through him. "He ate one of the cores," Ordeath muttered. "I told him not to."

Abjwe said, "Well, he should have listened. What will become of us, summoned back to the Undiluted Celestial after serving a heretic?"

Shadeath interrupted, "I can take the mana, but it will definitely kill a few bodies." "Same," Said Ordeath.

Shadeath and Ordeath started taking the mana, circulating it between bodies to lower stress.

Abjwe was biting off limbs that could explode, stopping harm with Arjun's gold-category regeneration.

Then, a Shadeath body exploded.