There were too many things wrong with this battle.
Reasons Soren would have preferred not to be here.
The first was that there were just too many eyes on him.
Even the dust from the torn platform did not help in covering the cameras with tracking technology or the eyes of the students with enhanced sight because of their connections to their Shades.
This meant that Soren could not use the range of abilities he had in his arsenal—as he was keeping them a secret.
If he did, this would raise a lot of questions and would bring trouble to him.
The second was because in the arsenal of abilities he had—those he had gotten from the train, Goldsworth's was the only ability he never figured out to use.
Soren had taken time to use each and every ability—to understand them.
That way he could use them when he needed to.
But Goldsworth's was different. Soren had tried.
