The strategy was ambitious to the point of suicidal. Splitting their limited forces across multiple high-risk operations while the compound remained vulnerable. Any one of these strikes could fail catastrophically.

But sitting behind walls waiting for extinction wasn't strategy either.

"Team assignments," Azrael continued, moving to specifics. "Sariel leads the strike on the northern angelic staging area. Vex takes the primary demonic foothold in the industrial sector. Kira—" he looked at ...