He grinned at her riposte, before portalling both of them into the mountains with first squad. He let the death squad activate their optical cloaking, and snapped his fingers, a sheet of metal suddenly seeming to explode out of his back, clicking softly as it wrapped around his torso, hips, upper arms and thighs. It was the closest thing to power armor he could currently build and still not have it interfere with his castings. He was a bit stronger, but the armor functioned as good as epic mage armor and an epic shield spell, completely encasing him in force protections. He grinned as he tapped behind his left ear, a headpiece snapping out, covering his left ear and eye, before the eye piece became semi-transparent. Now ready for war, he gestured for the death squad to move forward, before moving forward himself, using the optical cloaking field of the armor to hide rather than a more powerful spell. He carefully moved down the slope toward the town, intent on getting to the warehouse where second squad had found the pieces, though they were already checking other warehouses for different pieces. First squad stopped halfway to the town, well within and above the town, before spreading out to provide cover if things got interesting.