The way you word it, Melon, instead of actually playing the fight out like a real duel of magic... I instead must play the rules to my advantage. There are rules that aren't quite spoken, but can be heard anywhere across the algorithm through common sense. Instead, you could have come to these conclusions without Eden Era, and I'd have agreed, through such unspoken rules.

"If you catch your opponent off guard, your attack should have precedence." Of course, this is obvious.
 -> A prepped attack should overpower a non-prepped defence. (A direct insert from 'T1 Eden Era for dummies.')

"When two energy blasts collide, the more powerfully charged one should overpower the other."
 -> A prepped attack should overpower a non-prepped attack.

These things are common sense, the kind any smart judge should have, T1EA just dumbs it down, which isn't always good or useful.

/Gives Melon a good ol' calloused pat on the back/ Aw c'mon don't be a sourpuss.

Anyways, I think we've gone over enough, actually. The barrier is of a higher tier than ordinary elemental spells, so I doubt this argument will change anything in my last IC post. I could've held on to the idea of not using T1EA, which essentially would force Divinity to leave... but such a victory like that is inglorious. So... I'll accept EA's rules from here on in, [@Divinity], under the stipulation that Myron's abilities, almost all of them, can double-classify as both preps and non-preps, and can be combined to form singular preps. Example being summoning multiple layered barriers, it's not too hard, it could count as 1 matured prep, even if it constitutes multiple spells. Vs higher tier spells I'm sure Corban has, layering is a good idea in my eyes. This will help fit runelore in to the meta, whereas it'd create lots of loopholes otherwise. I will obviously put in great detail what combination of runes are most dangerous per post, and it'll be distinguishable what the real 'prep' is. In that last post, it's the idiom of time-space paradox.

Is this concluded? Or shall we continue debating about T1EA, so I can infuriate everyone who loves it with my outsider paradigms.

Oh yes, Melon. Well if you want the extra .2, you can have it, just for helping me reach out for an agreement on this argument based solely off of your crappy analogy. Otherwise, you should consider joining the school board, both of you seem to have the same opinion about my mental state.... hmmm...