Baines watched the brutal dance in the underground arena, the clash of fists and blades echoing the just like the chaos he'd witnessed during the Tyrell family's massacre and countless other skirmishes.
They stole techniques, killed for them, sold them or even hoarded them, yet they rarely mastered them, making a majority of them seem weak. That was among the reasons they were so easily hunted down and killed.
Another reason was, most of them were just talentless. Most were capped at the 5th star not able to ever cross. There we rare exceptions, like Dawnless's executives, they easily stood out, but they were too few to elevate the organization alone.
And like it or not, the underground had yielded Baines more than the Darkan clan or the Last Front combined. And despite their potential, their talent was the bottleneck.
His vast knowledge could even birth martial techniques tailored for Dawnless, yet techniques alone wouldn't bridge the gap of talent.
