Talk:Gazef Stronoff/@comment-124.122.126.150-20180824091058/@comment-45.56.46.26-20180826000350

On the point of Climb and Brain seeing the powers of Ainz, I think that is correct but they are misinterpreting what they should be doing with the information.

Gazef all along wanted to convince Ramposa that fighting Ainz was pure folly. He's not trying to expose some weakness to exploit, he's staking his life on having them witness that there was no hope even pitting the Kingdom's strongest warrior against Ainz, a caster who should be weak in melee. Yes, he wants them to take a message back, but the message is, "I told you so, dumbasses."

And Climb and Brain do a good job of taking that message back even though, or perhaps precisely because, they are trying to analyze the outcome of the duel in terms of what possible counter they might find to Ainz. So they present it to experts (like Blue Rose) and the answer is, "nothing, there is no counter to that kind of power."

Well, thinking of it that way, they're doing the right thing with the information but unwittingly.