Draiss sighed, and tapped a key on the command center, bringing up a second console nearby, so that the constructs could continue to monitor and direct the reinforcements. He nodded to the second console, and headed over to it. "Probably because these creatures are, at their souls, still mere crabs and lobsters. They went from your normal crabs and lobsters, not sure which ones, need a druid or ranger to identify which ones were the probable base creatures, to the things you were fighting not that long ago, in a mere YEAR. Needless to say, that sort of evolution is unnatural. And I think their souls are being pulled in by the armored lurker that took your death spells and divine blasts to the eye, their traditional weak point, and it simply oriented on you and then directed its swarms at you. That is something only a stronger divine creature could do. And there are... maybe fifty others, just like that one, running around those plains and forests."<br/><br/>He tapped a couple keys, and brought up a screen, showing the hypothetical forms of a naturalized crystalline beyonder and an armored beyonder, letting them get a good look at it and at the nearby Tarrasque there for size comparison. "No, wait, no proof those are their forms, and I am possibly biasing a future jury member. Forget you saw what we believe two of the beyonder subspecies look like. The offensive and defensive forms, respectively."<br/><br/>He tapped another key, and gave them a bland, blank smile that fooled no one. "Anyhoo, there souls are clearly going SOMEWHERE, we will not guess where without proof, and were created by SOMETHING, we will not guess without proof, for the apparent purpose, we have proof, of countering my constructs. Now, five years to become completely superior to what is epic and legendary class combat constructs is a hell of an achievement, and if it was an inhabitant of the planes, I want them hired as of four years ago. However, we have had no signs of any active tampering during all of that time. It is subtle, it is impossibly exact, and I can not for the life of me guess how they did it. Attempts to produce a similar creature to the Lurker were semi-successful, we matched the form, but it was inferior in every way possible, including supporting its own weight. We can't even duplicate their natural armor, or even tell you what it is making it so hard. If I didn't know better, I would say it was done by something that is to us what we are to mortals. But that is guessing, so I will not do that."