Just before his attack commences, Bahamut replies.<em>Are you entirely certain that they can't be tainted?</em><br/><br/>Three of the major targets are felled within the first few seconds, the surge of power at their deaths nearly leveling their fortresses. The other four managed to have enough defenses in place to deflect the initial attacks, lashing out with blind fury at their attackers, though the need to divert enough power to their defenses to survive limits their offensive capabilities. The true mortals fall with almost no difficulty, though the assault quickly reveals that the leader of the zealots is not, in fact, a mortal, and is, in fact, a powerful demonic vampire lord, who evades the attack solely by dispersing into a cloud as soon as he's hit, and fleeing towards his well-hidden coffin.