Quote Originally Posted by Buffalobiian View Post
Mana consumption can work. To date I've only heard of his soldiers using mana when they respawn or when they use artillery. That said, this barrier they're employing is also a first appearance.

I'm under no impression that Jinwoo has to save everyone or whatever. My main point was to make sense of the depicted animation and sequence. If he receives no information from his soldiers then sitting serves no purpose. If he does receive information then this is a first, unless the current barrier counts as a spell - then mana consumption makes sense.

But if there's no communication aside from mana, then the soldiers were given prior orders to intervene when the S-classes would be in danger. That's funny since the biggest danger would have been from the King Ant and they should have acted then.
Maybe Jinwoo didn't anticipate the existence of the S++ level King Ant. He might have given the shadows an order to defend the hunters if they are going to be overrun by a horde of ants. So, the shadow soldiers wouldn't do anything when a single super ant was whacking the hunters, but now when the hunters are in too bad shape to protect themselves from the horde, the shadows followed the order.