He stepped back deeper into the shadows of the trees. "We start by testing the range."
"You think the field has a limit?" Lena asked.
"Everything has a limit," Reidar said. "It's a physical property of the stone. It absorbs mana, but it can't absorb everything infinitely, and it has to have an effective radius."
He needed to know how close he could get his summons before they destabilized. If he could summon right at the gate, he could breach it. If the field extended a hundred meters out, they were stuck with the drainage pipes, and even that was uncertain.
But that was just the first question. There were others.
Did the field extend upward equally? If the Sky-Hunters flew high enough above the walls, they might avoid the dampening effect entirely and drop in from above.
What about patrol patterns? Mapping out when guard changes occurred could reveal windows of reduced vigilance they might exploit.
