Originally posted by Q99
I'm supporting Evangeline XD
I assumed as much.
Actually by far the most destructive showing of power in the series is Nagi's attack on the Lifemaker, creating an explosion with apparently an 8-9 kilometer diameter. Jack Rakan fought that same Nagi to a standstill for 13 hours straight.
Do not forget that said spell she used was deliberately made to defeat foes like the Lifemaker's forces, and that it required a very long, even by this series' standards, incantation. While Eva showed that she is sufficiently powerful to drive away three of the Averruncus's while chanting, it is highly unlikely she can do the same to Rakan. Oh, and let us also not forget that Rakan was able to avoid it.
Rakan himself is no stranger to wreaking destruction either though.
http://www.mangareader.net/209-15063-11/mahou-sensei-negima/chapter-230.html
This was done with a mere upward palm thrust. Notice that he then tanked the Thousand Thunderbolts (I can't really tell exactly how large that explosion is, but I have heard others scaled it to be about mountain level destruction), and continued fighting for much longer, us seeing cliffs being destroyed as a result of their scuffle.
And how will Eva respond to the awesomeness of the Eternal Negi Fever?
Ah, it is true that Evangeline's version of Magia Erebea provides a powerful defense in hand to hand, but Negi himself was able to strike her without much worry, and Rakan is physically much more dominating than Negi, as seen when he laid out the Vrsko Nagasaya here:
http://www.mangareader.net/mahou-sensei-negima/333/6
The reason why this is relevant is because this creature is explicitly compared to Eva in terms of power level.
http://www.mangareader.net/209-15071-7/mahou-sensei-negima/chapter-238.html
While he apparently drawed with it in the past, in the present he takes it down with one shot.
I agree, it would certainly be close, but I think Rakan's chances are slightly better.
That isn't surprising to me. Evangeline is around Rakan and Nagi's level after all, and Negi only stalemated Rakan due to Rakan frankly going pretty easy on him and Negi having a shitload of prep. The only character I can confidently say is more powerful is the Lifemaker. Though... I like to think that the reason the Lifemaker opted towards paralysing Rakan and Evangeline when he could, rather than just fighting them like he did the rest of Ala Rubra, was because he wasn't confident he could handle them both at the same time, and if they fought, the fight would have gone much differently.