The fresh mana hit his system like cold water on a hot engine, the wells behind his spells refilling in a rush that made Alice's Conduit link hum brighter and his Pride glyphs cost less than they had in thirty minutes.
The next wave was already clearing the entrance when the allocation settled, a mixed formation of Cragshells and Ruinwalkers backed by a screen of Mirescutters fanning wide for the passages, and Kaiden met the lead Cragshell at full Wrath with both blades driving into the joint gap he'd learned to find fifteen waves ago.
The carapace split and the Cragshell dropped.
He pivoted into the Ruinwalker behind it and felt the new mana reserves answer when he planted a Pride glyph under its feet, the pressure dome cracking chitin at the knees and staggering the bipedal frame long enough for both blades to find the gap.
