All through the daylight hours of Thursday, Shard, Miss Beyas, and Miss Annette stayed inside No. 6 Saint Delan Square, continuously analyzing their plan and practicing the Arcane Technique together in the spacious basement.
Shard learned a lot during this process, as it was essentially the two ladies teaching him how to fight.
It was only then that he realized, in the nearly a month he had been in this world, he had never had the chance to engage in one-on-one combat with any unfamiliar Circle Sorcerer. The few battles that had occurred were either with trusty friends by his side or involved using the Relic properties for targeted contacts.
During tonight's raid into the Ruins, apart from the dangers posed by the Silver-Eyed One and the Ruins themselves, they would undoubtedly encounter the Circle Sorcerers of the Blood of Mercury. It was very likely, then, that Shard would experience his first real Circle Sorcerer combat.
