[quote=@Lonewolf685]

Gecko. I am not a fan of all these power levels you keep bringing up. 

Has no one ever heard of Boss Battle, IE a conflict where you face and defeat an adversary many times more powerful than you through preparation, wit, and whatever might you can marshal? We are not comparing Cowboy Bebop and DBZ, primarily because everyone present in the Shattering verse gets their power from a similar source, their Tome. This isn't guns vs. gods, but people with various abilities and experience with those abilities, with the Relics thrown in for variety as 'Bosses'. 
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Yes we've all heard of a boss fight, don't be mean. It's just most of the time we try cunning it fails terribly. Fei's pretend kidnapping, attempted bluff by Gecko, Axon trying to talk things down peacefully, etc; and that is just three attempts in one scene. I'm not saying it can't happen I'm just saying that we are using those things, and having very little success regardless.