'“I think we’re about to have company.” He said absently as he fingered a trigger attached to his belt. The mechanism built into his sheath activated the clockwork device, making a faint whirring noise as it spun- gathering nether slowly as it did. It always paid to be on the safe side. Still the sound could just be his imagination. There was only one way to know for sure.'

The part where you started the fight before we'd even met, you shouldn't prepare magical attacks if you don't want the fight to start. Judgement has only one option at that point, fight or die.