[@TheHangedMan]
[hider=Exam]
The man flickered out of view and appeared next to Meruin catching her before she fell into the considerable hole beneath her. "[b]As I thought.[/b]" he muttered and opened a shimmer purple portal beneath them. "[b]Perhaps this one needs to learn her own strength.[/b]" was all he said before releasing her. She would fall through the portal and land harmlessly on her bed bouncing lightly before coming to a rest. Her proctor had determined that there was no harm done to her other than exhaustion.[/hider]

[hider=Sol Windblade]
Sol's eyes widened incredulously and his ears twitched causing his to quickly whirl around to face his opponent. So fast! Given the skeleton's words there was no magic there, simply strength of body, at least all the strength of body a skeleton could have. With speed of that level, his strength was doubt at least equal to it. Truly a formidable opponent. Whats more it seemed he was unable to even injure the skeleton given the lack of response to his last attack. That meant he couldn't attack and rely on his opponent flinching from the blow to defend himself, any attacks he made couldn't be made at the cost of his own defense. Also it meant he felt like an idiot attacking again. 

But his opponent seemed to have no inclination to attack and Sol had no desire for a stalemate. "[b]You've made your point, doubtless you're stronger than me by no small margin. But if you think that I'll back down then you're wrong.[/b]" with his statement made Sol once again stuck at his opponent. He quickly closed the gap getting inside the range of the axe and swung upwards as if to hit the skeleton's blood covered arm. However he continued his swing, the sword coming just shy of the arm and slammed into the axe where the blade met the shaft in an attempt to disarm his opponent. Sol had the dread anticipation that this attempt would do nothing and the skeleton would maintain an iron grasp on his weapon but he had to do [b]something[/b]. If the skeleton even deigned to attack him at all Sol anticipated a brutal kick from the leg he was positioned in front of.[/hider]