Another five months later, and he realizes he's glad he kept that reserve force; while the Beyonders had been keeping a steady pressure on his incursions, across all fronts, the entire time, they suddenly launched a massive invasion, on one of his holdings, countless thousands of abominations, including many he'd never even seen before, suddenly surging out of the endless abyss in a tidal wave of flesh and reality-warping powers, bringing with them a massive wave of unreality, rapidly draining the shadow stalkers in its path, and likely threatening to punch through the portal they'd established, and into reality.