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The blasting rod is highly situational. It can't just go tier 1 at any moment. He couldn't oneshot a MG with it without a plan. He basically has to convince them that it is on their level first, after all. As your quote even says: The blasting rod theoretically works, but practically pulling it off with just that is difficult.Wait a moment... Is that actually enough to get a High 1-C rating? Like, it seems Touma thought it would work against full-power Othinus, which considering his history with her means that there is actual merit behind it, but it doesn't actual confirm that it would work against True Magic Gods (Full-Power) to the point that even Touma thought that there had to be more.
Which was right on the mark.
Aleister needed the help of the A.A.A (while piloted by Kihara Noukan) and Aiwass to actually cut down a Magic God, who was actual serious and not messing around, - and even then, didn't that require the set up of having the Magic Gods to nerf themselves and for Aleister to nerf them again? Zombie is an unknown factor here, but judging on how quickly High Priest died, if Aleister was fast enough to nerf Zombie he could've killed her in a quick draw via his magic, Noukan w/AAA, Aiwass fighting, or a mix of all three at the same time.
... Actually, now that I think about it - doesn't this make Aleister's feat of killing two Magic Gods less impressive in the slight that he (likely) could only kill them while they were in a doubly weakened state?
In general the fight against the nerfed MGs isn't a good measuring stick for Aleister's power, though. It's pretty unclear why Aleister couldn't just drop a Big Bang Bomb on them, as that would clearly have been vastly stronger than them. I mean, when he send Noukan it was because he couldn't be bothered, but in the fight against Niang Niang it's unclear.
Basically, the fight either has PIS or unknown factors in it.