Thread:Maddog98/@comment-4842541-20150606031801/@comment-4842541-20150612195834

As much as I would like for Mark to defeat the Leviathan on his own, I want to make it a point that at this point Mark needs to train more.

At the start of the story he's a bit cocky (a bit, not so much that he's a jerk about it) and throughout the story he really shows that he has the skills back it up.

The first tough fight is actually with the Cult Leader, which shows off that even if you use water on Mark, he's not easily defeated. In this fight Mark is doing well, but it's Layla's teaming up with Mark that makes the fight even easier.

But then the Leviathan shows up, and Mark cannot let Layla fight the Leviathan as the Leviathan is way too strong. If Mark was able to fend off the Leviathan on his own, Mark wouldn't need that wake up call as badly. Instead the wake up call comes in two parts, the fact that he needed help from the Reaper, and then later on when he fights the Reaper and it turns out that the Reaper is REALLY powerful.

At least Mark still gets in the final shot in, as the Reaper makes it a point that Mark will be the one to kill the Leviathan.