Calc Drakengard 2 Feat - New Breed Nowe vs Holy Dragon Legna: Lightning Edition

Legna Beam Speed Feat

Legna TK Example

Nowe compared to Lightning

Not going to be the most precise, but it doesn't need to be *shrugs*

The final battle consists of them fighting among naturally occurring lightning, might as well use it to figure out the pace of the fight


As the lightning I'm using is in the foreground, I don't need to employ any conversion to meters to get a speed here, so that's fun

Lightning = 468 pixels

Legna Beam = 540 pixels

Legna Beam/Lightning = 1.154

Now, what about the speed? In lieu of continuously just appealing to the research of Negima's author and his 150 km/sec (if you've been wonder why we use that, that's pretty much been why for the past decade)? I figured let's update them all with something more scholarly?

Wikipedia cites some study that found an average speed for a stepped leader to be about 440 km/sec. While I can only get the abstract for it without paying for the damn thing, I miss being a student as a tangent, but this other article (web and pdf views) appears to corroborate it as well as listing a minor meta analysis worth of other corroborative past research findings in both its introduction and its own later findings presented in the results/discussion.

As an aside, I find it amusing they give a range of values for the distances they're discussing as of course capturing video to measure the speed of lightning won't have some kind of convenient measuring stick the strikes always land near and in the same field of visual depth for.

All that to say? I'm all for 440 km/sec if only because I can actually cite and find it beyond the research findings of a harem manaka's bullshit.

Lightning = 440,000 m/s

Legna Beam Speed = 507,760 m/s or mach 1,492.139

Think Drakengard 3 has some feats where characters react to similar attacks from Gabriel and Mikhail *shrugs*

Not sure I'm remembering correctly though

EDIT - Yeah, right here

Start of the game

Go figure


EDIT - Here's a better one


While Nowe is slightly into the Foreground, as you can see here where he's even with the Lightning (helps that the lightning is clearly the same jpg/png file, if not at a more slanted view) that the Lightning can't be too far behind Nowe here due to similar thickness

Lightning = 684 pixels

Distance Image 1 = 532 pixels

Distance Image 2 = 632 pixels

Distance Image 2 - Distance Image 1 = Distance Nowe Moves = 100 pixels

I had to do this because the background moved with a bit, so to get the full distance Nowe moved I needed to correct for the lack of static background. I used the thing circled in orange in the sky as my reference point

Distance Nowe Moves/Lightning = 0.146

Lightning = 440,000 m/s

Nowe Speed = 64,240 m/s or mach 188.78

The video wasn't kind enough to be convenient and give me a frame where both lighting and the metal box were being TKed, but as you can see for yourself the boxes generally move about as fast as Nowe at his top speed burst shit anyway, so excuse me if I work around this pain in the ass by employing his speed to said box for KE *shrugs*


Nowe = 115 pixels

Box = 468 pixels

Box/Nowe = 4.07

Nowe = 1.78 meters (his official height)

Box = 7.245 meters

Cube Volume = S^3

S = Box

Box Volume = 380.29 m^3

Iron Density = 7,874 kg/m^3 (it's clearly a metal given they all conduct electricity when the lightning strikes them)

Box Mass = 2,994,403.46 kilograms

KE = 0.5mv^2

m = Box Mass

v = Nowe Speed

Legna Telekinesis Yield = 6,178,618,562,045,248 joules or 1.477 megatons

Nowe also physically bats them out of the sky when they're in transit, so that's fun too I guess