Draiss wasn't expecting the constructs to have as easy a time as him, but the first squad wipe out just pissed him off. He then called all the units in, and explained how this was going to work. They fight until they are at either 50% combat capability, meaning they have expended all their heals and half their structural integrity, or until they feel they can't push deeper without losses. The number of artifacts they had determined how deep they could go, based on the unit with the lowest number, but they wouldn't go deeper than the three hundredth level.<br/><br/>He gave her an innocent smile, bouncing his and Cerul's child on his knee, grinning as she giggled in delight. She was quite the cutie, and was getting old enough that she could move around on her own, but higher level things still eluded her, mostly due to her mother's influence. Draiss countered that by giving her puzzles to play with, stimulating her mind and talking to her like an adult. "I was thinking of returning the little one to her nanny, and then we head off and see wherever Fate decides to plonk us down. No, Tera, that is a color puzzle, not a shape one. Green goes in green, not triangle in triangle, as the shapes change."