They charge by the vision. Also, Dandeer isn't very strong in the first place, let alone when she's under Masque.
Dandeer's still got a power level in her true form high enough that she could blow up the planet. We don't have a firm threshold for the minimum amount of power level required for this. It's kind of problematic, and I'm not going to ask for an exact number.
However, the worst Masque Affinity I've seen so far is the 10% affinity Kakara has for that saiyan masque we picked up on an impulse (presumably from a Gokun sorceror who was like "wait what... okay fine whatever, Scion, it's your goofy project.")
Is it the case that 10% of the
minimum power level required to blow up a planet would reliably fail to register on the ki sense of someone like a hypothetical Jaron Somerlad after cursory training? Even over the course of prolonged interpersonal contact at point blank range?
Or is it the case that Doreen Somerlad actively masks her power level, even though the only two people she's really hiding it from are
supposed to know nothing of ki? And given that we know that ki sense is an ability that cannot be used untrained because no one had it until the Turtle and Crane schools started teaching people?
I'd bet on Jaron noticing Doreen's power pretty fast if we teach him any ki sense.
For that matter, I wouldn't bet against Jaron noticing
anything that he is physically capable of perceiving, even in theory. For that matter, he was doing a pretty good job of perceiving something that he was
incapable of perceiving in theory, when we found ourselves scrying on the Misfits.
Research works by Kakara testing and discarding various hypotheses; at the end of the year, you get to know if all of those are utter dead ends or if you have something to pursue. This is, of course, far swifter than science usually is, but nobody in the thread has the patience to wait at science pace, so I'm handwaving it as Kakara being essentially a genius. Which we knew.
To be fair, a lot of things in science take the form of "Is this possible, let me do some back of the envelope calculations, ah... ahahaha NO." Or "let's run
one more test to rule out the feasibility of this... ahahaha NO."
Research into ki-powered abilities is probably
worse than real science in some ways, because there are many, many fewer things that can be definitively stated to be impossible.
...What would Legendary combat even look like? Automatically defeat anyone up to 10% more powerful then you if they dont possess at least one Elite+ combat skill?
Something like this.
For reference, Benedict (the character referenced) and Corwin (the protagonist, who is speaking) are members of a family of multiverse-bestriding superhumans, the royalty of a city called Amber. Their powers aren't on the scale of Dragonball, with casual blowing up of mountaintops and whatnot. But they
are on the scale where a member of the family could probably step in for the mythical heroes of 'real' Earth without any great difficulty, and perform as required to fulfill their legends.
Aside from personal power, the key to their abilities is their ability to travel through an infinite sea of alternate dimensions, which they call 'shadows.' They can obtain basically anything they want, including magical treasures and armies of fanatically loyal followers, simply by "walking" to a parallel universe in which these things are waiting for them.
[I explain this because it's necessary to understand part of the text below]
Here is Corwin, describing his older brother Benedict to a recently recruited follower of his.
Roger Zelazny said:
"Excuse me, please. You do not understand. You do not really understand who it was we talked with in the tent that night. He may have seemed an ordinary man to you--a handicapped one, at that. But this is not so. I fear Benedict. He is unlike any other being in Shadow or reality. He is the Master of Arms for Amber. Can you conceive of a millennium? A thousand years? Several of them? Can you understand a man who, for almost every day of a lifetime like that, has spent some time dwelling with weapons, tactics, strategies? Because you see him in a tiny kingdom, commanding a small militia, with a well-pruned orchard in his back yard, do not be deceived. All that there is of military science thunders in his head. He has often journeyed from shadow to shadow, witnessing variation after variation on the same battle, with but slightly altered circumstances, in order to test his theories of warfare. He has commanded armies so vast that you could watch them march by day after day and see no end to the columns. Although he is inconvenienced by the loss of his arm, I would not wish to fight with him either weapons or barehanded. It is fortunate that he has no designs upon the throne, or he would be occupying it right now. If he were, I believe that I would give up at this moment and pay him homage. I fear Benedict. "
And more from the viewpoint of Merlin*, who along with his acquaintance Bill, are currently in the city of Amber.
*(Corwin's son, and not the legendary magician of English legend, though probably capable of keeping up with him when it comes to magic)
"When I talked about defending Amber, and Benedict said "It won't come to that," I got the impression he was talking about something close at hand. Something he feels he can control."
"I see what you mean." [Bill] agreed. "But then he told you not to bother fortifying."
"If Benedict feels we don't need to fortify, then we don't need to fortify."
"Waltz and drink champagne while the cannons boom?"
"If Benedict says it's okay."
"You really trust that guy. What would you do without him?"
"Be more nervous," I said.
[Bill] shook his head. "Excuse me," he said. "I'm not used to being acquainted with legends."
That is Legendary Combat.
