Talk:Crescent Rose/@comment-25110963-20141125081717/@comment-3146930-20150118044112

I'm not saying that wood is a stronger material than steel. However if I gave four identical people identical weapons (lets say a sword, ax, and a bow/arrows) and told them to kill each target (a dummy in chainmail, a dummy in plate armor, a dummy in lamellar armor, and then a dummy standing on the opposite side of a tree like the one Ruby sliced). I'm sure the guy behind the tree would be the last man standing.

In this case it isn't about what material is stronger, but the density of the material in question. A piece of paper by itself is worthless but get enough paper together and it can stop bullets after all. Ruby's blade is so freakishly sharp that it somehow managed to completely slice the trunk of a tree in one slash. The only other person I know that could do something like that is Paul Bunyan.