The shamans cracked at the fifth hour, and the cracking did not matter because the thundermakers did not crack with them.
One hundred and twenty junior Threian practitioners cast simultaneously. The technique was Caelith's design, the Fifth Circle battlemage's solution to the shamanic field's redirection capability: overwhelm the field's regeneration rate with volume rather than power. One hundred and twenty Third Circle spells, each individually insignificant, each a frost bolt or fire lance that the field would normally absorb without effort. One hundred and twenty spells hitting the shamanic field at the same moment.
