Board Thread:Versus Battles/@comment-29853277-20171008102503/@comment-29853277-20171020233941

Dragonmasterxyz wrote: However, Nico will not just sit there and let his head get cut off. Of course not. Just saying if it did happen. Even then, we are talking about guys who can be erased from existence and comback. So can several high tier hallows. That's why constant regen negation is so prized in the verse. Although, in this case is the Mid-Godly Nico's own, or is it because of the Void Flame/ angel armour? The situation is that Yuracion Absolon characters can overwrite Power Nullification. They do this in every fight. It is second nature for them to utilize anti-regen. Literally all their attacks are powered up by Anti-regen artes as a way to counter their high speed regen. So can Hallows. Any regen negation in Hallow Saga is constantly being held in place to make it stick, because otherwise the Hallow just undoes the regen negation. Power Null as a whole in Yuracion Absolon is not that useful as an ability unless you completely sever the connection from Yuracion Energy, permanently, and keep it from coming back. It will only take a few seconds for Nico to undo to anti-regen. Did you say "sever the connection"?

"and keep it from coming back"?

Jonathan can do that.

Not only that, as I said Nico won't just sit back and let himself get hit. Matter of fact, his basic attacks are a threat to Jonathan. His basic attack bypass conventional durability by attacking your very essence. In Xros Revolution, this means attacking ones mind, body, soul and characteristics directly, essentially attacking your existence. Only reason these guys don't die from one punch is due to them having a defense for such attacks. Divine Armour takes care. It reduces any unwanted changes to the user to a fraction of their original level. Destroying Jonathan's soul also won't kill him, souls simply aren't that important in Hallow Saga. Hallows also have exceptionally good mind resistance, as even Elena Mathews when she wasn't even a proper hallow yet was able to partially resist a universal memory rewrite.

Then we have to factor in Nico's hacking that he can use during battle. He can do this to a point in which he can literally manipulate his opponent's characteristics and remove from them properties they once has and essentially voiding resistances. This is the most Nico has done with his hacking, so he at most can remove resistances and make Jonathan's attacks do something completely different. And I will note that Nico is someone who is willing to use his hacks early on as he is used to fighting beings with multiple resistances. This was actually the first thing he did in his battle with King once he got the chance. He also has complete information analysis with his hacks and can see all his opponent's have to offer and their weaknesses as well. His greatest hacking feat was when he manages to hack his father Raphael's Faux Seraphim Armor. He did so to the point that Raphael's attacks had healing effects when attack him instead of damaging. Of course, in series, the hacking is short lived as beings in Yuracion Absolon can overwrite stuff like this. In his fight against King, he fought someone who resisted everything he had, however Nico can quickly react to his opponents and overpower them by hacking if the Void Flame isn't enough. Again, Divine Armour reduces (in many cases to infinitesimal levels) unwanted changes to the user, and Resotration undoes any changes over a few minutes that does make it through. Also, the "data" of people in my verse is kinda held in their Ego... which is a High 1-A thing (it exists on the same level as Apeiron, and Apeiron is the direct emanations of the Zeroth, the tier 0) that no one has ever been able to touch except through verse specific mechanics.

Finally, there is his Seraphi Armor, and the true power of the VoidFlame Seraphim is unleashed. During his fight with King, he could only enter this form for a few minutes, however as of the most recent arc (the 7-B tier) Nico can keep this armor on as long as he wants. In his Seraphim Armor, Nico is increasingly likely to utilize the Conceptual Erasing powers of his Void Flames. Jonathan has conceptual resistance, capable of passively defying the concepts of Alaya. So unless this is the full 1-A power of the void flames, he should be right.

However, the one fight that will be mentioned now and is very important here is his fight with his father Raphael. Raphael had basically the same power as Jonathan with his Faux Seraphim Armor. Matter of fact he cut off his bond with Azrael and attacked him with a "killing blow" literally a second afterward. However, even then it was too late as Azrael had already re-established said bond with Nico. Now Nico still lost the fight due to Raphael basically having the means to counter the Void Flames. These means were simply disconnecting his connection to Azrael and the Void Flames. However, it still failed spectacularly. Did Raphael actually keep the connection severed? Or did he just sever it once and then Azrael immediately reconnected?

Can Nico even be killed then? Well, yes actually. Azrael had to literally jump in when Raphael revived Zavin from the dead as he knew Zavin would not only be able to disconnect their bond, but he could also permanently keep it severed due to still having the leftover powers of the Akashi Book. This also reveals a major weakness to Nico as a whole, as he can in fact be killed by Akashi Artes as well as if you kill him before Azrael instantly reconnect their separation.

Considering Jonathan channels his power through his sword (though he can do it through his body), and he's using [Excalibur (Monarchverse)| Excalibur], one of the abilities of is "always kills instantly with so much as a single scratch" and "qualifies as whatever weakness the target has", killing Nico before the connection is made wouldn't actually be that hard. Sword hits -> Jonathan severs type 8 connections + Excalibur insta-death activates.

However, this does not recover stamina. So Nico can still lose from fainting or incapacitation if he uses to much power. How much power is "too much power"? Sorry for the essay. All good. Very useful.