Targetting system + coordination

Three of the six diverged to the sides, each quickly taking position between two towers and rapidly activating a triangular aether field that immediately wreaked havoc on the thopters’ targeting systems. Many of the things crashed into the towers or the ground or one another. Some spun in circles. Some flew straight up, up and out of view. But the momentum of more than a few of the thopters took them past the field, and once beyond it their systems righted. Those that attacked were easy enough for Chandra to pick off with a few precision bursts of flame. But many did not bother attacking. Instead they hovered menacingly around the Immortal Sun’s dais, a floating, buzzing circular wall of mobile metal. Suddenly a little push and a simple spell had become much more difficult to achieve.

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War of the Spark, Chapter 44