The second wave came three hours after the first ended.
It was bigger. The Doom Monarch had read the result of the first wave and decided to send more. The sensor count climbed past five hundred thousand. The siege creatures arrived in greater numbers. A new class of monster appeared at the rear of the wave, taller than the front-line creatures and harder to scan. Aryan flagged them at Tier 95.
The wave lasted five hours.
Thalmyr-Ronethis held their lead by working harder at the same pattern. They struck command nodes. They cleared the disorganized clusters. They moved on. Their precision sharpened under the longer engagement instead of fraying.
Virexion-Kezryx changed nothing. Jaskrit committed more storm energy to the bombardments and pushed his engagement zone half a kilometer further out. The Doom losses on the eastern front were enormous. So were the Virexion ammunition expenditures. Jaskrit did not seem to care.
