Level 183 Sovereign stood between Coalition-complete and survival.
Fifty percent health felt adequate after the critical dying, after one percent cycling, after Coalition Eternal's torture. But against Level 183, fifty percent was still inadequate. Eighty-one level gap for Rama. Eighty-seven for Nakamura. Thirty-three for Sekar. The mathematics remained brutal.
"Same as before," Sekar said quietly. "Level 183 shattered my barrier at full health during first engagement. Threw me through buildings. Dropped my health seventy percent from a defended hit. We're at half strength now. Sovereign is unchanged. The mathematics are worse."
"But we're together," Nakamura countered. "First encounter, we were separated within minutes. Scattered. Isolated. Now we're Coalition-complete from the start. Unified. Coordinated. That's our advantage."
