Lucien returned his attention to the wider battlefield.
That was when he saw it.
At first, nothing about the sector seemed particularly unusual.
A mixed force had been holding one of the central evacuation routes for nearly an hour. Several factions were involved, along with two independent coalitions and a beast group that had been redirected there after losing its original sector.
Their nominal commander had been extracted twenty minutes earlier.
Someone else had taken over.
Lucien watched the new command pattern for several minutes.
The replacement was not the strongest person present.
But the moment information arrived, it moved through the force cleanly.
When one flank weakened, reserves shifted before panic spread.
When a Primordial Incarnation suppressed the Laws of several nearby fighters, the replacement commander reorganized the Interweaver groups without disturbing the evacuation route.
A stronger faction leader questioned one order.
