He was severely injured and weakened and yes he was recovering, Merlin made him lose consciousness with Shock Stinger. If he had been in his normal state it would been useless against him. He took several of Escanor's Sunshine attacks in the Perfect Cube.
I did not question a faster persons ability to outspeed someone slower. I questioned his apparent guarantee to win against anyone slower.
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So he needed to be at his then max in order to take her attack? To what degree was the severity of his weakness? Half of his PL is 70000 Could Merlin handle that? It must have been lower than that hm
You don't need to question something obvious, if she/he get outspeeded, how she/he gets the time to do anything at all? You are aware that you don't have time against someone far faster than you?
How could I know this?
You implied he was weak enough to be knocked out by her. You also believe that she must be stronger than the initial strength she had. Strong enough for 30000. So my question is how do you figure that it was because he was weak that she was able incapacitate him?
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She had time to put Eli and Arthur in PC. She had time to snap her fingers. She had time while she stared into nothing before he returned.
Because Galand wasn't focused on her? I said one vs one when Galand is focused on her, she wouldn't get the time to do anything at all lol.
I didn't imply, it is clear that he was weakened enough, we have the pages stating that he was weakened, we saw him lose to Escanor and we saw him in the process of recovery. I am not Nakaba or some kind of calculator to know to what extent he was injured. But he was.
Arrogance plays no role in a fight huh? Where do u place Eli then?
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And pretty drastically huh. My issue was whether it was because of the versatility of spells and their effects or if it was because of the degree to which he was injured which did not look that significant(for him at the very least) It culminated in my questioning whether she has powered up or not
It's because he was injured of course. Shock Stinger doesn't seem particularly complex or powerful and AM Meliodas is much stronger.
I don’t think there was any real indicator that she had powered up at that time. Gloxinia was shocked at escanors level of magic despite his being over 40000 points more than who he claimed escanor matched. Because of that, Merlin’s magic being called massive when at the same apparent level as escanor at that time does not seem as a clear indicator of an increase. Nor do we have any prior reference to use to see such a change from her
Gloxinia was shocked by the fact that Escanor, a Human, member of the weakest race had a magic power comparable to Estarossa, who has 3000 in Magic. While it is weak for a Demon, for a Human it's very impressive.
Seems rational enough. Although I feel as though there is much more to her abilities.
While that is rational I don’t know if that’s quite the case as the humans of their era were more powerful nor did it seem that was why they were surprised howerver that does not change the fact that is an inference you can draw from it.
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Eli has shown a signicant amount of magic prowess. 8 wings, incorporeal or not, and the force it realeased, drawn on a spread is not something I believe nakaba had intended for readers to disregard. As one of a mostly pacifitic nature, it would definitely impact her approach to combat. I do not feel that is a good reason to disregard her raw magic power. It’s because of her nature that she heals and does not wish to fight. But that also does not mean she doesn’t know how to fight. Her background is almost completely unkown. Im just curious to see what level she was at and may get to?
She doesn't have 8 wings lmao, she only has 4 like others.
If Gray Lord split to run away then she obviously thought she had no chance. Weaker or not, I don't think Fraudrin would have been frightened like that if he knew he could have won using his true body.
I think they were more or less frightened at Merlin’s legend then her feats themselves. From their standpoint they probably just know of her as a girl who deceived the two gods, so it makes sense that they’d overestimate her. Otherwise characters that don’t know who she is aren’t afraid of her, as chandler didn’t have a care in the world about her power