Contrary to Scaly who had now seen a clear path forward to increasing her strength, Verdell was lying down with a dead fish look in his eyes as his gaze drifted out across the empty landscape, he now knew hid god knows how many terrifying monsters. The earlier battle had drained every little bit of mana that once flowed through his body. Leaving him exhausted to the point where even moving around normally had become a painful experience, as the strain from the earlier battle had ended up feeding back into his physical body. Draining his stamina along the way.
