The humor in Sol's eyes had already dried up, his toss had taken five minutes, while hers returned in three, another gap in strength he needed to close, this was the whole reason he had thrown it in the first place.
He knew that if Sitri was like Dr'ul and wanted a serious challenge she would be willing to wait until he was strong enough to fight her nobody truly strong wanted to fight someone who couldn't even give them a proper challenge or make them work up a sweat.
At the last moment before it hit him Sol moved out of the way of the spear and grabbed it leaning forward and ending its momentum without losing his footing, other than his feet getting dragged deeper into the soil, but then the force of the spear came afterwards and the ground around him exploded into the air like a massive unflderground bomb had been detonated causing Ikaris to raise a hand and create a second barrier when Arla's barrier was stripped away within the first second.
