User blog comment:Phoebus18/Who's strongest Dark Mage?/@comment-147.226.184.245-20131216202904/@comment-4829046-20131217142420

Whether Zero was fresh or not is still debatable. Who knows how strong he would've been if Brain released him prior to being beaten up by Jura. Also Zero was finally able to regain control of the body but for an hour or so. If he had more time, he would've probably been more fresh and energized. But then again, that whole thing was just meant to be awesome, not really following logic =P