A few seconds later, the ethereal cloud mass was already at Havocspire's doorstep. The icy gust accompanying it had already snuffed out the last embers rising from the citadel's ruins. A thick sheet of frost was racing across the ramparts, threatening to encase the entire city and its new inhabitants in ice.
If Chillmire reached its target, barring perhaps Featherfall and the five figures atop it, every living being within a thirty-kilometer radius of Havocspire Citadel would be frozen solid. The Radiant Conclave, having already shifted several of its garrisons to bolster their stance, would be facing an inconceivably catastrophic defeat.
"It's about to begin..." Meribelle murmured, her expression grim. "Once Featherfall and the Radiant Conclave members on its back are out of the way, it will be Bones' turn to handle the Dreadnought Nematode."
Just a slight nuance. When Meribelle says that Life Lumyst Water doesn't work well on inert objects, it's something to take with a grain of salt. That's because, unlike awakening an object's spirituality (granting it a spirit body/soul), which doesn't rely on the object's structure itself, bringing life to an object without a heart, brain, lungs, cells, and most importantly, no consciousness, is pretty pointless. The object would die immediately. To delve even deeper into the debate, we'd also need to define what a living being is, and that answer can vary. Even if an enchantment using Life Lumyst Water succeeded, you'd only end up with an object imbued with vitality (meaning it can feed, regenerate, reproduce, possibly move, etc.). Nothing especially intriguing, except for the regeneration aspect.
The other significant issue is that the less alive the enchanted object is to begin with, the higher the likelihood of failure. It's better to awaken/enchant the vitality of creatures and plants that are already very much alive.