One of the most tricky things about fighting the Black Hand members wasn't just their refined technical skill, but their sheer breadth of combat experience. Having been plunged into life-or-death situations for their entire lives, trained exclusively for the art of killing, they possessed an uncanny ability to adapt to any battlefield on the fly.
And now, Darno's Vow—which had served him so well up until this point—was actively being turned against him. The sharp pain radiated across his back from the fresh gash, but he was honestly even more frustrated that his brand-new Ranger blazer had been damaged in the process.
