An Enemy Spy Reads The Wheel of Time III: Something's Fishy in the White Tower

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An accurate indication of their power is kinda irellevant for Mat.
When you move past the level of force that pulls him apart without efford, then i doubt he care about just how easily he were killed..

Exactly, reduced to dust is still reduced to dust. It doesnt matter how fine that dust is, you are still dead.