The third tier at the hundred-and-twenty-minute mark.
The northern approach had been clear for four minutes. The last group had come up it in a pack of three and had gone down in the sequence three beasts in a packed approach went down. The first from the Quicksilver Thrust. The second from the Lunar Deflection's rejection surface turning the beast's momentum against it. The third from the Falling Star, the drill-point landing on the node that two hours of fighting these specific creatures had located with the accuracy of extended observation.
Three beasts. The approach clear.
He came back to neutral and looked at the spear.
