Generally, during their spars and training, except mandated, both parties were not allowed to empower their bodies with spirit energy to boost their physical capabilities, so they fought purely based on their physical capabilities.
This was one of the reasons why Khal didn't take much interest in guiding Desmond, the young man Ingrid introduced to the family. He couldn't even develop his physical strength properly.
It seemed to be a problem rooted in humans of this lower world, as for whatever reason and laws guiding their world, they didn't seem to be able to increase their body's natural strengths past a certain level and could only reach a certain level before it becomes impossible to go past that limit.
At that moment, Sigmund's research was also tackling the issue, so everyone waited eagerly to see positive results on how to fix this problem, after all, Aldritch had quite a few people from this world, and becoming vampires didn't fix their issue completely, it only lessened the restriction.
There was also the possibility that once they went to the higher world, this would cease to be the case, but there was no guarantee as there was no way to confirm the theory.
As for Khal and Desmond, the former only showed consideration as the latter showed determination.
All this meant was that during Lodestar's and Aldritch's bout, both parties only relied on their physical and natural body capabilities and strength, not utilizing any spirit energy to reinforce their bodies.
Whilst being of higher level than Aldritch, Lodestar soon found it tasking to continue keeping up with Aldritch. Like a fighting machine made and tailored specifically towards hand to hand combat, Aldritch, on his own, had adapted completely and even coined his very own technique to fight in hand to hand combat, making rapid improvement as the spar dragged on.
At first, Lodestar only spent his energy minimally, dodging and parrying Aldritch's attacks, but once the former got used to his new strength, he began attacking more intensely. Even then, Lodestar didn't need to exert himself as he still was superior to Aldritch, but that was only in stats.
Aldritch had been moving in normal speeds to Lodestar, so avoiding his attacks and blocking them was way too easy for him, he was basically training a baby on how to walk through trial and error, but Aldritch also armed with that knowledge started altering his patterns and making adjustments, managing to catch Lodestar off at various times, surprising the latter each time.
Despite the superior stat difference, it didn't factor in well once fatigue kicks in.
Before she could curse the person at the other side, Lina's voice tore through her ears as she pretty much shouted, "Ingrid, are you around! I think there's trouble! There's intense fighting going on within the yard!"
Understanding Lina's words, Ingrid rushed her dressing, leaving some extra clothes on after putting on the necessary fits and rushing out with a serious expression on her face, considerably more worried than Lina was.
Unlike Lina who was just concerned an intruder had broken, in, Ingrid was aware of the recent slave market problems, and though she had already entrusted it to Lada as it was Lada's jurisdiction, she very much knew of the possibility of Lada's plan failing and they, being found out.
'If they really have come, then they've chosen the wrong time to attack.' She resolved, seeing as night had pretty much come.
As they ran through the mansion swiftly, Ingrid found herself lacking when it came to speed when compared to Lina, but she didn't beat herself about it, since the limitation on them was already clear, and she was never a physique reliant fighter either, at least for the most part.
In a few seconds, they had reached the main door of the mansion, only to find that a couple people were already standing there, pretty much all the other vampires.
'Everyone's already here.' Both ladies thought to themselves.
"What's the situation? How much is their force?" Ingrid enquired with all seriousness.
Well, everyone seemed to have the same expression on their faces or at least similar, but it wasn't one of seriousness or one ready for war...
"You guys too, huh?" Rindher turned back to look at Lina and Ingrid with sleepy eyes.
"Apparently, our Lord and Lodestar have been having a 'friendly' bout for the past six to seven hours now... those sounds you heard? It was actually them sparring..."