The twelfth day of the Mountain event began with an announcement.
It rang through the perception of every soul on the field at once, the same way the event's notices always had. But this one carried a weight the others had not.
[Final Wave incoming.]
[The Doom Monarch has committed his elite. Five Doom Executioners advance on the Star Mayhem Mountain. Each Executioner carries one and a half billion combat power. Each will hunt the strongest powerhouse of an allied force directly. All forces are warned. This wave will decide the event.]
[Estimated arrival: five hours.]
The notice faded.
On the southeastern arc, the Suryax-Regalon leadership gathered around the command projection. The numbers from the last battle still glowed above the Mountain, with Suryax-Regalon in first place. The Titans had been eight hundred million each. These were nearly twice that, and there were five of them, and they were hunters, not siege engines.
