Weak or no, it hits strong.

—and then she shatters into glass pieces again, and her laughter can be heard from everywhere around him, no longer vaguely directional. "I take it you haven't heard about the holy water trick."

"Yes. From you. Much as you heard from me that renewable resources are not bottomless. Your unbelievable illusions cannot be worth the cost."

"Unbelievable? You did just believe one, and you know that. Speaking falsehoods, are you, Concon? Also, maybe I have had more time to accumulate resources than you think. Bottomless, no, they're not, but I can still outlast you."

"Must I spell it out? Each false image destroyed is a resource lost. I have no need to believe them. The false voice is not even plausible." It's the kind of statement that can threaten a glamour.

"It's not false, you idiot, I'm using loudspeakers." And some glamour to delocalise them, but that's not need-to-know. Thanks Johannes for the inspiration. "So, is that your move? Patiently walking around, looking for the real me, until I run out of images? I have to admit, I'm impressed, didn't think you had it in you not to charge blindly into combat."

"I admit I would prefer a real fight. Unlike you. In fact, I suspect you are not here at all and your challenge was false. You are welcome to prove me wrong."

"Absolutely!" she says cheerfully, and there's another shotgun shot coming from that direction—

Sadde's not experienced with guns, but Conquest was standing there looking all big and imposing and broad-side-of-a-barn-like.

He feels the impact. The glancing bullet wound he can shrug off, but the having a hit scored on him by an inferior opponent, that hurts. Hurts more than it should, even. He shudders for a second and a half.

On the bright side, he has a direction now. Conquest does know guns. Matthew's captured shotgun in particular, even. Its effective range in the hands of a competent user, how far someone not used to it would have to shoot from... and of course he has the general direction from the fact that there's a bullet in him. There aren't many places at that angle, in range, and with a clear line of sight to where he was standing. He rushes through them, not taking the time to fire his own weapon but ramming its butt or bayonet through each candidate space.

What if there's tripwire on the way that's not only sturdy enough to trip someone as big as he is, but also triggers the release of a weighted net right on top of him?

Then he'll trip and start wearing a weighted net. It slows him down, but his size and weight aren't really the operative forces here. He's Conquest and he's pursuing a target; the net will come around to his point of view.

And how much more careful is he being about further traps?

Not very. He's just trying to check everywhere in a fairly short radius; there isn't a lot of space for traps.

Well, no, not a lot, but there might be a hidden and glamoured hole in the ground with several spikes pointing down diagonally. Are they also going to come around to his point of view?

That one works. But his face looks triumphant even as he goes down before reaching the final target.

"Eye? Burn."

Sadde is caught by the flames just as she's jumping out of reach.

She screams.

"Sounds like my cue," says a voice. "You have no idea how hard it was to sneak all these across town," it adds. "Enjoy that fight you wanted, Conquest."

Wait. What?

The illusion continues to scream, dropping and rolling to put the fire out, while the real Sadde removes her glasses and looks around for who the heck said that.

There's a practitioner with a connection to her and not Conquest at all, which in Conquest's city rules out almost everyone—

A thunderous sound rolls across the clearing. Brekekekex, ko-ax, ko-ax, croaks the twelve-foot amphibian right before trying to take a bite out of Conquest.

Fuck, no, she told them not to interfere! She'll follow the connection towards whomever—ugh!

Yeah, no. Aside from being tricky to see at all without using the Sight, the perpetrator's unidentifiable. Mask, robe, the works. And they're heading out. Sadde could just follow, if she doesn't mind leaving Conquest alone with Hauri's monsters.

...what if she grabs a pebble and throws at them, pulling on their connection to not miss?

She's within a normal unassisted throwing range. She can hit them with a pebble, for all the good it does.

It's calling their attention that she wants, are they even gonna turn around...?

Yes, enough to see that Sadde is no longer invisible. Then they run faster.

Ugh! Whatever. She goes back into the park and says into her mic, "These monsters are not mine, and not a part of my challenge against you." She doesn't say she has nothing to do with them because, well. She does. "I do not know who sent them," true, "or why," also true, they discussed this.