-Tauga waits in the sky with her Bludgeons as the Cosmic Knights re-enter. She starts killing what she can.

-As thousands more descend, they converge on her and the orbital impacts eventually destroy one of her ophanim. Tauga sends the ophanim away for a little while, leaving her unable to fly.

-Cosmic Knight orbital bombardment. Thousands of biopunk space marines collide with the city.

-The Alefprian army turns up at the gates. They've marched there on foot and Mannequin.

-So do the dwarves. They're being teleported in by Vestec.

-Sen and the Rotflies that stayed behind in Xerxes lead the Dagon. None(?) of them survive.

-The Dagon wage fierce urban warfare against the united invaders, and try to isolate the Knights.

-Bludgeons help. Note that they are supermagnetic, and only the Alefprian / Imperial forces are armed with metal.

-Keriss has a bunch of mass suffering powers, which helps her sway the battle.

-Likewise, Amartia's Dark Carnival spell is still in effect. Those caught in Xerxes without his blessing are liable to start acting on their own instincts and desires.

-However, Lifprasil's power to sway emotion is strong enough to counteract this. There's probably some back-and-forth.

-Tauga falls to earth and somehow encounters Lakshmi and Susa. She whips out Amber and the four of them have a massive fight to disable Tauga so she stops bludgeoning Lif's army.

-Lifprasil squares off against Amartia.

-?????????????

-Amartia stops being a problem until his later reincarnation.

-Tauga is defeated. She loses consciousness. Heartworm appears, sends away the Bludgeons, and basically says 'okay, that's enough.' It also pings Keriss- I'll probably do that in a flashback.

-Somewhere along the line Keriss is politely informed that she picked the wrong side, possibly with a hammer.

-Demons and Realta might have gotten involved??? At some point? Maybe?? idk??? Go ask Rtron. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

-Lifprasil and Tira square off against Logos.

-Tira carries the GodKiller, and they use it to chase off Logos. Lif is critically injured by contact with the artefact. A protracted ailing process begins.

-Fight winds down. Alefprian victory due to overwhelming forces, despite heavier losses than they anticipated.

-Tira leaves the battlefield alone, to wander.