Draiss put together shadow stalker demo squads as they came through in numbers sufficient to at least get to the location, and dispatched them, though after a half minute, the portal started wavering, the stalkers pouring through in greater numbers, before Draiss finally waved them off, just before it collapsed. He put avatars in five of the teams, not sensing any of Verdelet's avatars present, which meant he wouldn't be able to finish her today, but he could sense a number of tainted organics, several registering as powerful deities, though not as high as his avatars. That done, he got his wind back, before looking up, his blind sense giving him a good feel for the structure. "You know, we could fight our way to the top, but this is going to be faster."<br/><br/>He knelt and placed a hand on the ground, before several runes and sigils appeared around him, and a meter thick beam of lesser balefire lanced upwards, only in existence for a fraction of a second, but enough to make a nice, sizable hole in the floor. "Express elevator, ninth floor, constructs, organics, tainted, and shards. Going up?"