Tier-100 entities, but not the same kind that had stopped the Regalons in Suryax's depth. These were not refined, crystalline guardians. They were native to the chaos that the depth contained — twisting, asymmetric creatures whose bodies shifted between solid and energetic states, whose limbs reformed faster than they could be severed.
There were a lot of them.
Marshal Veylara reacted first. Her storm-armor expanded outward in three rotating layers, and the Virexion-Kezryx forward line opened with their newly integrated lightning-lance arrays — heavy weapons that fired arcs of compressed storm energy in disciplined, sequenced barrages. Six Tier-100 creatures fell in the first volley.
