Quote Originally Posted by Raven2014 View Post
Uhm ... the difference is that was a sparring match? Have you ever had a sparring match in real life against a mentor? While they will commend your ability and even may say something that you make them fight for it, it's always in the context that they actually synch down to what they believe someone equal to your ability. In a do or die fight they will wipe your butt.

It's fairly obvious at that point Venat had a pretty good guess of our role and the gravitas of the situation. The match was more of a test of skill and mental fortitude of the WoL, she commend us to manage to push her as far as we did given our form, not that we manage to be her equal. It's the same as the fight when she tested us at the end. Through out Elpis eposide when a real risk evolve the Ancient all demonstrate abilities far above what we can do, and I don't mean by just simply creation magic. I mean ... she fly up and chase after the Meteion into space for a while ... think we can do that?

Like ... the WoL had fought to an inch of our life before, and it usually shows how spent we are in the after match, win or lose. Did you even see us or her try to catch our breath at the end of that sparring match?
Towards the end she got serious and didnt manage to crack our defense. Aetheric density is by far not all, combat mastery matters a lot. The fight against a full power hermes with the dummy brigade weakened to our level is another instance of overcoming the difference. As is the fight against hades in shb.