Our next fight is Oliver's, but the bookmakers had another match scheduled to run before his.
We head up to the aerial bleachers, positioned strategically around the rim of the Oathring—at ground level, there's only standing room for the crowd.
Veric and Rhayne are already deep in conversation, so I sit down next to Oliver to trade a few words with the man. Understanding him better will help us build a sharper team.
The first thing that comes to mind is that he spent his last year robbing passengers in a lost subway station outside the system. He probably has more Diver-versus-Diver experience than Veric and Rhayne combined.
But naturally, he was always a WaterStrand farmer. Despite the name, WaterStrand farmers don't plant or harvest anything. They hunt. They search dungeons, monsters, artifacts. They chase rumors to recover a single Strand and head back to Earth with some money. His combat experience is field-built, not trained in theory and drills.
