A couple moments later after the simultaneous break-throughs (and the report of a certain spectral zako...)
<<Okay, so we can't poison these branch guys anymore. That's fine, they're still only at the first ring of being Aether Masters anyways, all we have to do then is isolate one of them and we can use them in order to bait out the->>
"Hi there! Any particular reason why you guys are hanging around here like a bunch of creepy stalker ex-spouses?"
<<Fuck!>>
<<Wait, he's one of the scions! Get him!>>
"Oh, I was HOPING you'd say that!"
*CRACK!*
<<Wait! What?! This guy is actually->>
*WHAM!*
<<ACK!>>
*BAM!*
<<OOF!>>
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