Witches arrive! Some of them join the magic battle! Ovali appears to turn the air around him solid and then produces a huge lance made of solid wind. It pierces one of the dragons through the heart and someone manages to get an awesome shot of the scene.

Another section joins Trevor and divide up tasks. A team scries for the dreamshard. Another creates a local witch well so they can replenish during battle. Trevor makes them all sanctuaries.

Calado fires antiaircraft missiles at them.

Flying witches and stormguards dodge easily. Ovali manages to redirect a missile back to its source.

Sanctuaries are not that fast. Many stormguards die and the storm intensifies to impossible levels.

The lightning stops being a sudden bolt of energy and instead becomes like a whip of white fire rolling across the sky and incinerating anything it touches.

The scrying witches manage to defend themselves by creating a powerful barrier around their sanctuary.

Some missiles go through the portals and don't hit anything. They fly all the way through the edge and vanish.

Only to reappear at completely random locations and directions, hitting things chaotically. Definitely killing many in the process.

And the dreamshard sings! It's a powerful pulse inside their minds! A song of glory! Terror! Chaos! The song that encompasses all the possibilities of creation! Everything worth of wonder and despair! Everyone a mile away from the dreamshard hears! And every dreamshaper everywhere hears!

The song is so loud that people are going to fail to notice all the lesser presences behind it. The dreamshapers. All dreamshapers that have ever existed.

And some dreamshapers manage to get a brief glimpse of what is going on. But only a glimpse.

Calado is mostly encouraged by this outcome and fires more antiaircraft missiles!

Then more missiles are going to hit places! Some absolutely at random and with no sense of purpose! Stormguards are instructed to leave their sanctuaries and keep aerial mobility.

Ovali turns into air and flies towards the missile launching sites. Once there he assumes a vague humanoid outline and then catches the next missile, turning it back around and making the place explode.

Tani reinforces her mental wards and then Trevor's and her family's wards.

And now he is the only dreamshaper not fucked over by that fucking song. He opens and closes portals as relevant. He creates another stormguard battalion and opens a portal so they can invade a military base from the inside. And his storm becomes progressively more violent towards people that are still fighting.

Upside of the song? It makes the dreamshard much easier to locate. They just need to map the area that is being affected by the song...

Downtown Calado! Secure building full of people!

Is the place portal-protected?

It has tons of portals but not in a strategic way just as if a thousand people were trying to get to the dreamshard.

Of course. Well, he can make tiny portals that allow things like...

...magical seeds that grow once in contact with a surface, covering people with vines.

Or tiny balls of light that suddenly explode in a flash, causing people to fall on the ground inert but awake.

Meanwhile the others don armors that appear to be made of solidified stormclouds, or living vines, or even just light shaped like words.

They create a force field around the place, pushing it to go into the ground.

Trevor protects this action by erecting portals to catch any incoming attacks.

Inexperienced dreamshapers do all kinds of things - light everything on fire, drown everything in a rush of molasses - now it's flaming molasses - release way more shadow monsters -

And competent skilled witches can protect against all of that.

Even the magic things.

And once they have the place secured in a bubble they start peeling off each layer. Like ripping off a page of a book. Roof, uppermost floor, the new uppermost floor, and so on. People are sent through portals or stunned. More stormguards are sent over. The witches observe this all from above, untouched and throwing powerful magic around.

Where is the dreamshard?