Theron's plan was quite mad, but it also understated an endless sort of confidence he had in himself.
The fortress was formed of several defensive formations, but none of them were offensive. In fact, the fortress' defensive formations were almost more cosmetic than anything else.
A true large-scale formation would be able to withstand the assault of hundreds to even thousands of Mancers of the same level for hours to even days at a time.
These ones weren't nearly so powerful. Instead, they could probably withstand about a dozen or so minutes from about the same number of Mancers.
They were there to prevent anyone from just using stealth abilities to slip by and win by a fluke. This was meant to be a challenge that was comprehensive in its evaluation. They didn't want it to be a single person who manned everything and won it all single-handedly.
And if that did happen, this individual would have to be truly exceptional by necessity.
