"I'll take the next few monsters," Ning announced. "You all should rest up and recover your Navi. Especially you, Roman. We will need you to heal us a lot and support us."
"Good idea," Jax agreed. He removed his armor. "I could use a break from getting pelted with needles."
Roman's healing spell had worked well, and the pain from the iron needles had completely disappeared. Jax stretched his arms and rolled his shoulders, feeling much better.
As they waited for the next round, Lucille glanced around the arena and then toward the skies where the many thousands of names still glowed in the sky like stars.
"Look," she said in a sharp tone, pointing to several names.
The others followed her gaze and saw what she meant. Then they saw what had surprised her.
Dozens of names, if not over a hundred, had dimmed in the sky, to a point where they were barely visible.
"What's… what's going on?" Melayne asked in confusion.
