The ritual called for 100 sacrifices, and some idiot decided he could use microbes for it.

I know magic is new here, but 9/10 times a sacrifices means a demon, and a demon means trouble. Any half trained thaumaturge knows this and could have guessed it would go badly.

Just how badly? I don't think anyone would have guessed.

Rather than grant the caster with the powers of a litch, the damn demon seems to have reasoned that one turn of foul play deserved another.

No human sacrafice, no human litch.

So that is why we are out here in force, trying to track down Tehran the Tardigrade litch. 2 cities have fallen, and atomics are being discussed. But the damn Tardigrade just goes into crypto-biosis and seems unkillable.

Sarah in R&D thinks thats why the demon used a tardigrade... For the pun of CRYPTo-biosis. We may lose the whole state over a smart ass and a pun.