He was able to match the mana entity only because it had just one arm to fight with. It would have been worse if the mana entity had both arms. The Understanding he gained from it was equal to his own level of skill in spear mastery, the seamless step. Two of them working together will amplify each other.
The Understanding is useful to him and Legion, unlike the last mana entity he faced. The energy he gained on the other hand was just enough to top him off into reaching the energy requirements for his fourth gate.
Soverick went into his next room. He faced off with a spell specialist instead of a warrior. This time, the mana entity was proficient in the element of fire. Soverick's fire torrent spell that he relied on failed him, it could not burn through the enemy's shield as he had expected because this mana entity kept interfering with his spell even when it was disoriented from being tossed back and forth.
