(You stupid fucking half pigeon!)
Realizing he needed to do something drastic so Solaris and Alice could keep their lives Dax broke operational doctrine and forced a connection to Solaris' armour while he activated his own ascension spell architecture. In a split second Dax's mana ambient mana signature flared as it increased by several magnitudes as he interfered with Solaris' mana enhancing armour, rewriting the frequency generator so it cancelled out the angel's spell instead of enhancing it. With the sudden split second twist of the battlefield, the Shadows demonstrated their flawless teamwork as they switched their attention almost exclusively to Dax, even the ominously glowing dagger seemed to have some sort of mana tracking function as it turned around mid air and propelled itself towards Dax.
(This could be a real pain to deal with…)