I already explained why your gravity argument doesn't hold up quite a few posts ago. Lightning is just massive heat and charged particles, two primary elements of your beam. It states it has decent defense to energy across the board, just with specific effectiveness against lightning and fire. That would apply to your energy beam. As for the aerogel, I still feel I could. Even if it didn't activate immediately, it could still be summoned after the initial collision to radiate away some more of the energy that passes through. It also punched holes through my barrier as a a show of sportsmanship. Even if it can punch a hole through it doesn't mean it retains all of the energy it had prior. Like I said it would have lost a good portion of its energy after all of that. I'm willing to make more concessions and just take some damage as Melon has suggested, but not if you will continue to argue it should be damning despite a third party agreeing that it isn't.