Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-89.117.51.149-20160603130922/@comment-24215250-20170314175621

I have to give this to Enryu. I love Urek and all of his badass entrances, but I think Urek was made by SIU as somebody who Baam is meant to one day surpass. If not surpass, I think Urek is at least somebody who is within Baam's reach. Urek also realized that when he received the scratch on his face from Baam's attack inside the Zygaena, and that's why he has taken such interest in Baam's potential. Urek has incredible feats, as he claimed to be able take on 1000 rankers all in one go (I'm sure with a few high-rankers mixed in). I know this was his own claim from his own mouth so it should lack credibility, but I feel that the author put him in the position to say that to prove the point on how broken he is as a character, meaning its a feat he could certainly pull off even if he had not done so in the first place.

Enryu (and Phantaminum, but that's not even a fair comparison cuz Axis. Actually if we're talking about fair, Enryu isn't exactly a good comparison either but I digress), from what we have seen in the spoilers, is in a league of his own due to mastery of shinsoo. This isn't just simple mastery. The shinsoo turning red in his presence is almost a way of it announcing its new owner. Floor administrators are the owners of the shinsoo for their respective floors, and in a sense have higher authority for their own floor than Zahard does for the tower. Zahard is king of the tower because of a contract​ with the administrators on the floors he has conquered.

When Enryu fought the administrator, he didn't simply defeat him. He literally usurped the administrator of its authority of shinsoo and just pelted it with spear after spear in an environment that should have been 100% disadvantageous for him. Enryu beating the administrator on its own floor is basically beating a master in its own playing field.

Urek might honestly be able to pull of fighting or even beating an administrator too. Same with Zahard. It's hard to say because we have no information on whether or not either have provoked and battled one. We also don't know the full manner of the tests given to Zahard when he was climbing the tower, but I'm sure in an earlier instance he must have come into conflict with at least one of the administrators, instigating an actual fight. Maybe he even won such a fight, but decided to keep the administrator alive so he could make use of the floor and its shinsoo for part of his plan in using the tower as his ruling place. But even if that were the case, I don't think either Rank 3 or Rank 4 could have defeated a floor administrator so completely​. Even the way Enryu's battle and victory were narrated was almost as if somebody was describing a heavenly decree, like Judgment Day, which was further played along by how Enryu was described as a 'messenger of God'

Everything I have said was speculation, however, and could be completely wrong. But this is how I've been perceiving the characters discussed in this thread.