Galan's apparition at Camelot. All the 6 Sins hear it from Bartra at the castle. Ban and King are missing when it happens in the manga, and there is the stuff about the Pleiades, Balor's Eye etc.
Well, the most likely scenario around excalibur is that it simply works as a sacred treasure would. I wouldn't expect it to make up a significant portion of arthur's power in the same way the other sacred treasures don't make up a significant portion of the sin's powers. I mean, meliodas only uses the clones to play around or when they wouldn't make a difference anyways, basically they are a parlor trick. The scenarios in which they would be legitimately useful to mel seem limited at best since they would only do something useful when they have the chance to full counter something. King's so far only releases his power but it doesn't seem to actually add anything to him. Escanor unleashes power the treasure absorbs but it seems to not be a lot of power in relation to what he could otherwise release at more convenient times. He weakened but didn't kill 2 commandments after all. Now, if excalibur was indeed sent by the goddess clan then perhaps we have to deal with the prospect of whatever the treasure is meant to do. Perhaps they plan to make use of arthur's innate magic which is considerable even compared to the commandments of archangels.
Because Meliodas and Escanor are so powerful that a weapon makes no difference whatsoever, in addition to Rhitta's special ability being terrible.
Thing is, chastiefol does not work like that. Chastiefol is a release, which has the implication that before using the release it is, well, unreleased. It does not actually add to king's power. It simply releases power that is otherwise sealed. Basically it's a crappy supplementary ability which will actually become irrelevant once king becomes stronger. Like with gloxinia, he carries it around in it's most advanced form without any stamina issues whatever. Heck, we can't even rule out baskias not having the release bit. In that regard, there is no sacred treasure so far that actually adds to PL in the way you suggest excalibur could add to arthur's power.
Adding to one's power does not necessarily imply adding power level - none of the Sacred Treasures "add" power level, but they do increase battling capabilities by a good margin.
Well, what good would sealing chastiefol do if king can fully control it without straining himself? The point of the ability is not to enhance power, it's to suppress it. Beyond that it does not seem to do anything nor have any relevance.
Oh, you meant the regular form? Of course. But the true form is still a Sacred Treasure which adds to his power.
Sacred treasures don't add to the power of the user, at the early stages of the manga they simply allowed the user to draw out more. And even that concept is almost scrapped considering we have seen plenty of people who are able to draw out their full power without weapons. At the very least a weapon is not needed for the sins to draw out their full power currently as was the case in the early stages of the manga. And more importantly, weapons of the same quality as the sacred treasures are not that weird. Even holy knights had them by the byzel arc. Basically at the moment sacred treasures are high quality weapons which can basically withstand the sin's powers and also have secondary supplementary abilities.
Call it adding to their power or drawing out their hidden power, it positively reflects on the Sins' ability to fight. Meliodas could barely fight an Albion without Lostvayne, whereas he managed to immediately chop its arm off with the sacred treasure. You're undermining STs far too much - Chastiefol and Basquias are proof of how immense their influence in battle is.
Well, my point was that it did not have that effect anymore as the sins are clearly able to draw out their full power without weapons nowadays. Hence things like diane being able to match dolor's golems when in the past she could not match guila while unarmed. Right now diane uses gideon not because she needs it to draw her power but rather simply because she prefers fighting with a weapon than without one. Quality wise the manga points to sacred treasures not being that much better than weapons available to holy knights at least. Rather than quality the difference between sacred treasures and normal weapons is the abilities they have. Basically, the effect sacred treasures have in battle has been diminished since the manga started. Not to mention that chastiefol and basquias specifically work different from other sacred treasures in that they are made from the sacred tree. And even then, basquias does not necessarily have nor gloxinia needs chastiefol's sealed form. In fact, he hangs around with his spear in its true form and it does not even vaguely strain him. Basically, even if basquias had the same ability as chastiefol, it wouldn't do much difference to him.
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I am not suggesting they are useless, I am saying simply that sacred treasure quality weapons are available to virtually everyone at this point. As I said earlier, even guila and jericho had that quality of weapons. Rhitta is meant to suppress escanor's power. I am not sure it really makes that much of a difference output wise beyond that. Without it his power would likely increase and go out of control much faster than it does now.
Why does it feel right to you?
Her tone made it sound so. Ludociel has been hinted to be at the top of the four archangels, so Mael shouldn't be someone who influences Meliodas heavily. Elizabeth's mother, however, is a completely different story, seeing her daughter's and the demon's relationship.
Excalibur seems more special than that but he would not be the one to do the incantation I think. And with Merlin at his side there must be plenty of ways to deal with it.
They obeyed to his orders (at least initially) by replying with "YES SIR!" - it's pretty clear that he's slightly superior to them in the current situation.
People assume it might be the case because of their relationship with the Demon clan.
It's pretty safe to say the Goddess Queen is the strongest goddess and Elizabeth mother. I'm more interested in when Nakaba actually gonna introduced her in the story. Even just a name drop like he does with the Demon King will do me.