ΛN♢MΛLY 威孤立 :
People fail to grasp the bigger picture. It's not just about a strict 1v1, context matters too. The entire purpose of the battle was for Malenia to send Radahn to Miquella, and regardless of who you think won physically, she ultimately failed to accomplish that goal. By the time Malenia and Radahn finally faced each other, Malenia's entire army had been wiped out by the Redmanes, leaving only her and Finlay. When they met on the battlefield, Malenia attached her prosthetic arm and charged into battle. Later, the fight skips ahead and we see that her arm has been cut off. At that point, rather than accept defeat and lose her pride, something Millicent says Malenia cast aside, she made one final desperate gamble for her brother. In a cruel twist, she destroyed Miquella's gift to her, the Unalloyed Gold Needle that had held back the Scarlet Rot for most of her life, hoping to give Miquella a gift in return, Radahn himself. A gift for a gift, an eye for an eye. What people also forget is that the Scarlet Bloom isn't just some attack she can casually use. Her "nuke" is quite literally Malenia destroying herself to channel the power of an Outer God. It was a last-ditch act of desperation that sacrificed her own body and forced her to embrace the very thing she had spent her entire life resisting. She unleashed the Scarlet Bloom in an attempt to kill Radahn and fulfill her mission, yet even after resorting to such an extreme measure and devastating all of Caelid, she still failed. Radahn survived. He slowly succumbed to the Scarlet Rot, but he remained sane long enough for his forces to isolate Caelid from the rest of the Lands Between before eventually losing himself. Malenia, meanwhile, had to be carried from the battlefield by Finlay. In the end, neither warrior truly walked away victorious, but when it came to the purpose of the battle itself, Malenia failed to achieve the objective she had marched to Caelid for in the first place.
2026-07-30 08:17:16