Why did they have to face the Heretic Cult head-on? Why did they have to play on the board and by the rules their opponent had chosen?

Since they were already as good as dead, then why not be a little more aggressive and drag a few more enemies down with them? Maybe they could even carve out a way to survive!

When you couldn’t tell friend from foe, the first thing to do was identify the enemy. If there was no way out, then they would go to the Heretic Cult and force one out of them.

They had all grown too used to acting like regular forces, too used to fighting life-or-death battles in the usual way. So when the situation flipped and they found themselves standing in their old opponent’s shoes, they failed to think of the very tactics that had once made them suffer so much. They also hadn’t accounted for just how wild Ji Jue,...