Often they took their victims for "a little ride."
You don't want to draw too much attention to a particular area by taking all your victims from there.
An aggressor must take their victims as they find them.
But the Void had taken its final victims.
Enough time, in other words, for him to scout out all the places he's going to take his victims.
It is a long rule of the law that defendants must take their victims as they find them.
The kind of guy who likes to take his female victims out into the wilderness for his fun.
"If only the international community was brave enough just to bomb the railways there," which took the Nazis' victims to the death camp.
"Do you lose your equilibrium when you take your victims?"
So the mara is still taking its victims in a traditional manner.