You do realize V was a key player all throughout the encounter, blasting giants left and right well before the clerics (about whom the IFCC probably knew, since they were monitoring Hel's game closely) showed up? Whether the Mechane is brought down by hurled rocks or a Blade Barrier is largely irrelevant. So no, you didn't answer the question.
Like I said, it has too many moving part and it contains too many presuppositions the validity of which you cannot prove.And if you don't like my argument ok, but that doesn't mean it is a bad argument.
What if it has one? Lirian's wouldn't have stopped Xykon as he is now and Girard's would have been equally ineffective. Even Dorukan's was figured out after an admittedly long while by Team Evil. That doesn't guarantee jack.I find the argument "this gate, the last gate, is the only one that doesn't have a good big epic last line of defense" far worse than mine.