MJ

The idea of being able to recruit a hero from Kilostek with phoenixes into your army is silly; it's hard to believe that this could be justified by the game's difficulty.

All these ghosts and stacks of phoenixes are taken down like a couple of skeletons.
The army is huge, it's your own, plus another 3000 gnome mages. A gnome takes out
3 phoenixes with 1500 health each in one hit. But I got tired of looking for the last castle and gave up.
Lya Cordi is much more interesting.