The Doom Monarch did not learn slowly.
His first attempt to overwhelm the unified ocean defense had failed, and he did not throw the same assault at it again. The second wave came two days later, and it was different. He had read the defense the same way the defense had read him, and he had adjusted.
This time he did not weight one front. He spread his pressure evenly across all four, and then, in the middle of the engagement, he shifted the weight without warning, surging suddenly against the eastern front where Virexion-Kezryx anchored, trying to crack a front while the defense was still committed to balancing the others.
It nearly worked.
The eastern front buckled for a moment, the Doom surge hitting Jaskrit's storm fleet harder than the shared picture had predicted. For a few seconds, a gap opened.
Ronaisan closed it before it could widen.
