As if dodging an imaginary string of attacks, Nari still gave ground before dancing to the right and bringing the blade high, above his shoulder with the blade pointed downwards before stepping to the left and feinting a downwards slash. Flicking his wrist in he changed the angle of attack from a downwards cut to a horizontal slash. While the movement was somewhat complex it fell in line perfectly with his knife play and thus something he was more than capable of easily handling. [1/1]
Taking a deep breath he stepped back and yet again returned to a low ready stance. His feet were about a foot apart and his right leg was about a foot behind his left. His blade was held between his arms with both hands on the grip in the standard stance. Taking a deep breath he allowed his emerald chakra to seep into the blade and with a sudden movement he stepped his right leg forward while bringing the blade up to his second stance. As he did so the chakra seeped from the blade in the form of a large gust of emerald wind. [1/1]
Continuing the motion from the previous move Nari took a deep breath and once again coated his blade in emerald chakra. This time he rolled his shoulder inwards and tucked his elbow bringing the blade down once more. This time a meter and a half wide mist of emerald wind filled the area around him and his blade. Quite a fun ability if nothing else. [1/1]
Now it was time for something pretty unorthodox. Releasing his blade he brought his knee back and swiftly kicked the hilt of his katana as it fell. Yet again his previous training assisted him in this moment allowing him to properly gauge the weapons fall. Much to his both approval and displeasure the blade sailed across the room and sank into the wall. [1/1]
Without a weapon Nari decided that it was time to move on anyway to the next move and since it did not require his blade he did not move to retrieve it. No instead he took a deep breath and began to study his friend. Each breath he took nari found it quite simple to match his own and soon he found himself able to predict when and how he would move. Interesting to say the least. [1/1]
Making his way over to the wall Nari pulled his blade from the wall with a smile as he watched the building to repair itself. Man these golems were useful for things like this. Once he had retrieved his weapon he took up his form and brought the blade down quickly diagonally then halfway though the slash switched hands and brought the blade back up in another diagonal slash perpendicular to the first one. [1/1]
Carrying the momentum of his slashes nari spun in place and brought his blade upwards before letting go of the hilt and turning his hand over. Catching his blade in a backhand grip he held it at a reverse guard stance and with a seasaw like motion flipped the blade over the back of his hand again and again while coating his blade in chakra creating a shield of wind. [1/1]
Returning his blade to his sheath nari took a deep breath and began circulating his chakra about his body. From his hands he practiced expelling his chakra in venting blasts of wind. From his feet he mixed blasts which propelled him off of the ground lightly to arcing kicks filled with blasts of wind. Then he began mixing it up with punches, kicks waves and blasts of chakra. Once he was satisfactorily proficient with the ability he continued on. [1/1]
Drawing his blade Nari dashed forwards dipping the blade down to his left in a spin to gather momentum. Bringing the blade around it would slam into an imaginary sword and transfer all of its momentum into said sword. To make it even worse for said imaginary person the blade then discharged and explosion of Fuuton chakra creating a storm of shredding wind. [1/1]
Taking a deep breath he brought his blade level with his chest in the same low ready guard as he had before though this time unlike last time he had no intention on just creating a mist of wind. No this time he was going to go above and beyond that, and then some. Taking another breath he moved quickly bringing the blade upwards in an upward sweep and discharged his chakra from the blade. The moment the chakra left the blade it created a very solid, very real wall of fuuton chakra. [1/1]
Flipping His blade backhand Nari smiled and took a deep breath circulating his chakra throughout his entire body. This was a jutsu that required a fair amount of chakra as it essentially created a large wave of chakra all around him in a bursting radius. Once he had built up enough chakra to unleash it he swept his arms out to the side in a wide motion creating a sudden and fierce wave of chakra infused wind. [1/1]
While his chakra was recovering nari brought his blade up before him in a sort of salute. Pressing the flat of his palm against the blade he once again focused his chakra inwards to rebuild what he spent in the previous jutsu. The stance was almost reminiscent of a prayer though with deft and purposeful movements Nari knelt slowly and lightly allowed the tip of his blade to sink into the ground in five places around him. Completing the last one the emerald chakra yet again flowed around him creating a potent barrier. [1/1]
From his kneeling position Nari prepared himself for the final step in his quest of mastery of this particular style of swordsmanship. Taking a deep breath he prepared as much chakra as he possibly could and began utterly venting it again and again from each portion of his body in large blasts of wind. Pointing his hands at the wall he expelled two large jets of pure wind chakra which hacked and slashed at the wall mercilessly as well as propelling nari backwards. Ending his slide with his hands he kicked his feet up and used another burst to shoot himself back forwards. This process of expulsion continued for some time before he finally got bored of blasting himself to and fro across the room. Brushing himself off he stood ready to continue. [1/1]
Well he would have continued on had theo's explosion of elemental fury not blasted him across the room and into one of the self repairing walls. Though the detonation was not what supprised him. As he slid to a lump against the wall, emerald eyes still burning, he could feel the bones within his ribs break when he impacted the wall. His bones should have been significantly stronger than that. They should have been able to take that hit like it was nothing. [1/8]
Yet there he lay with two broken ribs and a fractured shoulder all in one go. Was it Choumei's chakra interfering with his bloodline? It had to be that was the only explanation, and that, that scared him. Nari was a man of death, honor, blood, and friendship. As such there were very few things in this world that he was genuinely afraid of. However when his bones, that had always been strong, were now weak was something that sent a chill up his spine. [2/8]
Though what happened next surprised him even more. All over his skin little emerald bubbles began to form and spread covering his body in an emerald cloak. Upon his back two small nubs that resembled tiny wings had formed. Without any kind of inclination of it happening all along his arms, chest, torso, back and shoulders, thick patches of scales began to form shredding his new robes once more. Once the scales settled and the demon chakra stabilized a bit it was clear that nari's normal lightly tanned skin was now a deep blue almost black color and his eyes no longer carried two colors. Instead they were pure orbs of green. [3/8]
Even as he tried to sit up Nari knew what was happening, he knew that he had pulled on just a bit to much of Choumei's chakra. Though while was genuinely concerned about what was going on he also had faith that Bast's seal would hold and would not let him down. Instead he did what he could to manipulate his own chakra to suppress the demonic chakra and keep it from spreading. [4/8]
In a feeble attempt to stand up nari ended up on his hands and knees panting. He had access to quite a powerful chakra but this, this was beyond what he ever came close to, the power of this demon was incredible and now it was making itself obvious. Though it did remind him of the battle involved in sealing it. It was so powerful, yet it did not exert even a tenth of this power during the battle. It must have been fighting for control too.. [5/8]
Though as a wave of pain ran though him Nari was no longer thinking of how he felt sorry for Choumei, no he was thinking about how he was going to retain the modicum of control that he had. So long as his own willpower did not wane then the seal would hold, but that knowledge did little to satiate his pain. Down at the base of his spine the emerald bubbles formed protruding length which slowly became a tail. [6/8]
Slamming his fist into the ground in both a flailing of pain and anger he felt his fist sink into the hard ground off the simple impact. While he was not afraid for himself at the time, he was afraid for Sonyo, for Theo, Ayame, Daichi, and Choumei as well. He made an oath if the demon pushed to hard and forced his hand he would take his own life to prevent it from escaping. Though just as he thought that very thought the demonic chakra faded from existance leaving him panting on his knees. Looking up at Theo he chuckled,"That, sucked." Forming a seal on his left hand he used his chakra to repair the breaks in his bones. Now that he was able to breathe easier he slowly rose to his feet with a nod," Speaking of, what is with your chakra? Its all... weird, almost ambient."
● Iron resiliency: The user has gone through tough enough training, being roughed up and moved around in armor to understand what it feels like. The user's fortitude is mildly increased. ● Iron Disciple: The user, through hours of intense training in multiple bad scenarios, has learned the old saying of “to kill with one punch.” Because they do not want to find themselves outnumbered, or maybe for pure enjoyment sake, the user is able to hit with great intensity when striking a foe, focusing on tension, grounding, stability, and strength at the impact sight. The user's striking strength is mildly increased. ● Swift Foot: A well trained individual is usually faster than an untrained individual, and the practitioners of the Iron Fist understand this fact more than anyone. However, those of the Iron fist not only accomplish this boost of speed….they also do it in armor! The user is now unaffected by the additional weight of armor (to a logical limit), and when the user is out of armor, their body and technique speed is greatly increased at the loss of the protection. They are much more adept at bursting into action, going from standing to 100% in single moments. Conversely, the user can now perform these techniques without needing armor. Must relearn every technique at half the learning cost to perform techniques without armor to learn the different distances and timing of the techniques. Overrides restriction. ● True Belief: The user has meditated and trained long enough in this monk art to understand how important true belief is. By understanding the power of the spirit over the mind, and the mind over the body, the user has increased their stamina by sheer will power alone, as well as increased their toughness and durability. Increases Stamina by +25 for every style mastered. ● Satori [ Enlightenment ]: Meditation and spiritual exploration and understand yields interesting results. Due to the greater understanding of the self, the user is more aware of the connection between their mind, body and spirit, and how to utilize that connection. The user is now slightly more skilled at just about everything. Striking, blocking, moving, absorbing, and taking damage. The user's strength and fortitude is increased heavily. ● Offensive Style: Knife Stances: The user becomes more accustomed to upward, downward, and sideways slashing motions. Speed of all Bukijutsu employing small arms is mildly increased. ● Offensive Style: Simple Play: With this training, the user is able to more comfortably switch between upward, downward, and sideways slashing motions in a pinch. The user's reflexes are mildly increased. ● Trick Style: Knife Toss: The practitioner has developed a greater sense of precision and is now able to throw, juggle, and catch their knives by the hilt with ease. Confers a slight reflex bonus to the practitioner. ● Offensive Style: Artless Draw: The practitioner has better developed their ability to pull their blade straight from its resting place to an offensive slash. Slightly increases the speed of strikes made when drawing a small weapon. ● Trick Style: Retreating Feet: The practitioner, already acquainted with many techniques in the style, has finally realized that with a little bit of personal training, they are able to increase the precision and speed at which they lift and press their feet. The practitioner's footsteps are rendered silent to all who do not have enhanced hearing, and the footsteps they leave in soft ground are shallow. This not only assists their ability to sneak up on people faster and quieter, but also helps when running from trackers. ● Trick Style: Blade’s Edge: The practitioner has developed an even greater sense of precision and is now able to throw, juggle, and catch their knives by the tip with ease. Additionally, some projectiles, such as shuriken or kunai, can be caught by their tip. Confers a slight increase to the user's reflexes. ● Offensive Style: Stepless: The practitioner has become so used to performing quick and silent steps that they scarcely realize that they themselves are moving. The user's speed and reflexes are mildly boosted. ● Offensive Style: Mistborn Stepping: Silent, swift, and sharp. The practitioner is able to creep about at a decent pace while making close to zero noise. While moving through an area where cover or some obscuring factor is present (buildings, people, fog, etc.), the practitioner gains a moderate bonus to speed and reflex. ● Skill: Multitasking: While the first two stages of the style revolve around the very basics of how to use a bow, the third stage incorporates the use multiple arrows into a more stylish way of battling. Mastery allows the user to simultaneously fire multiple arrows with any technique that does not specifically state otherwise, and allows the Arrow Creation technique to create up to three arrows at once with no increase in cost. ● Skill: Manipulation: Manipulating the bow itself is simple, but controlling the arrows is very difficult. Many enhancements can be made to arrows to give them different flight paths, but buying those kinds of arrows is expensive and making them is difficult, so a method was developed wherein the user can freely alter how an arrow flies without need for such trifles. During this training, the user practices firing arrows with abnormal hand positions. Reduces the Stamina cost of bow-related Bukijutsu techniques (including Formless Styles) by 10 Stamina, to a minimum of 5 Stamina. ● Skill: Adaptability: For the most part, the style thus far has focused on techniques to be used while stationary. However, this leads to many problems when fighting alone in situations that demand frequent movement. During this training exercise, the practitioner is to practice all known techniques while running, jumping, and maneuvering across a battlefield. After mastery, the user can align shots even while running and jumping. ● ● ● ● ● ● ●
There is Fenris grim His jaws are open wide The serpent rises from the waves Jormungandr twists and turns, mighty in his wrath The eyes are full of primal hate
Watching out of the corner of his eye, Theodin saw as Nari started working on his mastery over the demon sealed within him. The jounin could even feel the corrupting nature of the demonic chakra as it leaked through as he stood there in sage form. When Nari managed to suppress it again and looked at him, Theo chuckled when the kaguya commented on the strange nature of his chakra, answering with the slight growl still in his voice as he maintained his form as the bear sage, “What you’re seeing is my Sage mode, it’s my normal chakra mixed with the normal ambient chakra of nature… just as I can sense the demonic chakra you’ve been working with while I’m in this form.”
Vingthor slays the guardian snake leading to the death twilight of the thundergod Ragnarök awaits as Rank: A-Rank Jounin / ANBU Class: Ninjutsu Chakra: 1805/ 1805 Sage Chakra: --- / 600 Stamina: 1305 / 1305 Jutsu / Items Used:
Passives:
Hsing-I Pakua: Awareness bonus – 6 stages Ivory Tower of Wind: Upper Body Strength Bonus – 6 stages Jungle Roots (JSJF): footing and stability increased Never an Idle Limb (JSJF): can use legs to attack and defend as well as the arms Panther’s Pounce (JSJF): mundane mobility and kicking power increased Enlightenment
Brushing himself off once more nari pulled the remains of his jacket off and tossed it to the ground next to him with a sigh,"And i just got that replaced." Turning his attention back forwards he nodded,"Sage mode eh? Interesting. Though as far as seeing the demon chakra its not exactly like turning black and growing tails is normal ya know. I might be a kaguya and we all know we do some strange stuff but thats strange by our standards too." He couldnt help but chuckle again. It was his way of reliving the stress, the pain, the anger he had been feeling at having failed so harshly to protect the village.
● Iron resiliency: The user has gone through tough enough training, being roughed up and moved around in armor to understand what it feels like. The user's fortitude is mildly increased. ● Iron Disciple: The user, through hours of intense training in multiple bad scenarios, has learned the old saying of “to kill with one punch.” Because they do not want to find themselves outnumbered, or maybe for pure enjoyment sake, the user is able to hit with great intensity when striking a foe, focusing on tension, grounding, stability, and strength at the impact sight. The user's striking strength is mildly increased. ● Swift Foot: A well trained individual is usually faster than an untrained individual, and the practitioners of the Iron Fist understand this fact more than anyone. However, those of the Iron fist not only accomplish this boost of speed….they also do it in armor! The user is now unaffected by the additional weight of armor (to a logical limit), and when the user is out of armor, their body and technique speed is greatly increased at the loss of the protection. They are much more adept at bursting into action, going from standing to 100% in single moments. Conversely, the user can now perform these techniques without needing armor. Must relearn every technique at half the learning cost to perform techniques without armor to learn the different distances and timing of the techniques. Overrides restriction. ● True Belief: The user has meditated and trained long enough in this monk art to understand how important true belief is. By understanding the power of the spirit over the mind, and the mind over the body, the user has increased their stamina by sheer will power alone, as well as increased their toughness and durability. Increases Stamina by +25 for every style mastered. ● Satori [ Enlightenment ]: Meditation and spiritual exploration and understand yields interesting results. Due to the greater understanding of the self, the user is more aware of the connection between their mind, body and spirit, and how to utilize that connection. The user is now slightly more skilled at just about everything. Striking, blocking, moving, absorbing, and taking damage. The user's strength and fortitude is increased heavily. ● Offensive Style: Knife Stances: The user becomes more accustomed to upward, downward, and sideways slashing motions. Speed of all Bukijutsu employing small arms is mildly increased. ● Offensive Style: Simple Play: With this training, the user is able to more comfortably switch between upward, downward, and sideways slashing motions in a pinch. The user's reflexes are mildly increased. ● Trick Style: Knife Toss: The practitioner has developed a greater sense of precision and is now able to throw, juggle, and catch their knives by the hilt with ease. Confers a slight reflex bonus to the practitioner. ● Offensive Style: Artless Draw: The practitioner has better developed their ability to pull their blade straight from its resting place to an offensive slash. Slightly increases the speed of strikes made when drawing a small weapon. ● Trick Style: Retreating Feet: The practitioner, already acquainted with many techniques in the style, has finally realized that with a little bit of personal training, they are able to increase the precision and speed at which they lift and press their feet. The practitioner's footsteps are rendered silent to all who do not have enhanced hearing, and the footsteps they leave in soft ground are shallow. This not only assists their ability to sneak up on people faster and quieter, but also helps when running from trackers. ● Trick Style: Blade’s Edge: The practitioner has developed an even greater sense of precision and is now able to throw, juggle, and catch their knives by the tip with ease. Additionally, some projectiles, such as shuriken or kunai, can be caught by their tip. Confers a slight increase to the user's reflexes. ● Offensive Style: Stepless: The practitioner has become so used to performing quick and silent steps that they scarcely realize that they themselves are moving. The user's speed and reflexes are mildly boosted. ● Offensive Style: Mistborn Stepping: Silent, swift, and sharp. The practitioner is able to creep about at a decent pace while making close to zero noise. While moving through an area where cover or some obscuring factor is present (buildings, people, fog, etc.), the practitioner gains a moderate bonus to speed and reflex. ● Skill: Multitasking: While the first two stages of the style revolve around the very basics of how to use a bow, the third stage incorporates the use multiple arrows into a more stylish way of battling. Mastery allows the user to simultaneously fire multiple arrows with any technique that does not specifically state otherwise, and allows the Arrow Creation technique to create up to three arrows at once with no increase in cost. ● Skill: Manipulation: Manipulating the bow itself is simple, but controlling the arrows is very difficult. Many enhancements can be made to arrows to give them different flight paths, but buying those kinds of arrows is expensive and making them is difficult, so a method was developed wherein the user can freely alter how an arrow flies without need for such trifles. During this training, the user practices firing arrows with abnormal hand positions. Reduces the Stamina cost of bow-related Bukijutsu techniques (including Formless Styles) by 10 Stamina, to a minimum of 5 Stamina. ● Skill: Adaptability: For the most part, the style thus far has focused on techniques to be used while stationary. However, this leads to many problems when fighting alone in situations that demand frequent movement. During this training exercise, the practitioner is to practice all known techniques while running, jumping, and maneuvering across a battlefield. After mastery, the user can align shots even while running and jumping. ● ● ● ● ● ● ●
There is Fenris grim His jaws are open wide The serpent rises from the waves Jormungandr twists and turns, mighty in his wrath The eyes are full of primal hate
Chuckling again, Theo nodded, “Yea, that’s generally pretty weird, but considering I was there when Choumei was sealed in you.. plus I’ve seen one other jinchuurikki use demon forms before a long time ago, so it doesn’t really freak me out any.” Theo would say with a slight smile, some of his fangs showing in his mouth, “You know how it is, man… you live as a shinobi long enough, nothing really throws you off anymore…. Anyway, about the sage stuff, with the disappearance of San, I’ve become the sage of the Bear summons, though I learned to harness natural chakra for senjutsu not long after I was promoted to jounin rank, back when Bast was still kazekage.”
Vingthor slays the guardian snake leading to the death twilight of the thundergod Ragnarök awaits as Rank: A-Rank Jounin / ANBU Class: Ninjutsu Chakra: 1805/ 1805 Sage Chakra: --- / 600 Stamina: 1305 / 1305 Jutsu / Items Used:
Passives:
Hsing-I Pakua: Awareness bonus – 6 stages Ivory Tower of Wind: Upper Body Strength Bonus – 6 stages Jungle Roots (JSJF): footing and stability increased Never an Idle Limb (JSJF): can use legs to attack and defend as well as the arms Panther’s Pounce (JSJF): mundane mobility and kicking power increased Enlightenment
Hmmm Theo had a point, he had seen enough strange stuff that at this point not much bothered him, scept that stint of loosing his bones hardness, that freaked him the ever loving ******** out. Shaking his head quickly he nodded,"Roite, question. Think you can teach me how to do that? Not the fangs and stuff, I dont have the face for it, but the nature chakra. I dont want to rely on Choumei's chakra and It would be nice to have something to supplement my own."
● Iron resiliency: The user has gone through tough enough training, being roughed up and moved around in armor to understand what it feels like. The user's fortitude is mildly increased. ● Iron Disciple: The user, through hours of intense training in multiple bad scenarios, has learned the old saying of “to kill with one punch.” Because they do not want to find themselves outnumbered, or maybe for pure enjoyment sake, the user is able to hit with great intensity when striking a foe, focusing on tension, grounding, stability, and strength at the impact sight. The user's striking strength is mildly increased. ● Swift Foot: A well trained individual is usually faster than an untrained individual, and the practitioners of the Iron Fist understand this fact more than anyone. However, those of the Iron fist not only accomplish this boost of speed….they also do it in armor! The user is now unaffected by the additional weight of armor (to a logical limit), and when the user is out of armor, their body and technique speed is greatly increased at the loss of the protection. They are much more adept at bursting into action, going from standing to 100% in single moments. Conversely, the user can now perform these techniques without needing armor. Must relearn every technique at half the learning cost to perform techniques without armor to learn the different distances and timing of the techniques. Overrides restriction. ● True Belief: The user has meditated and trained long enough in this monk art to understand how important true belief is. By understanding the power of the spirit over the mind, and the mind over the body, the user has increased their stamina by sheer will power alone, as well as increased their toughness and durability. Increases Stamina by +25 for every style mastered. ● Satori [ Enlightenment ]: Meditation and spiritual exploration and understand yields interesting results. Due to the greater understanding of the self, the user is more aware of the connection between their mind, body and spirit, and how to utilize that connection. The user is now slightly more skilled at just about everything. Striking, blocking, moving, absorbing, and taking damage. The user's strength and fortitude is increased heavily. ● Offensive Style: Knife Stances: The user becomes more accustomed to upward, downward, and sideways slashing motions. Speed of all Bukijutsu employing small arms is mildly increased. ● Offensive Style: Simple Play: With this training, the user is able to more comfortably switch between upward, downward, and sideways slashing motions in a pinch. The user's reflexes are mildly increased. ● Trick Style: Knife Toss: The practitioner has developed a greater sense of precision and is now able to throw, juggle, and catch their knives by the hilt with ease. Confers a slight reflex bonus to the practitioner. ● Offensive Style: Artless Draw: The practitioner has better developed their ability to pull their blade straight from its resting place to an offensive slash. Slightly increases the speed of strikes made when drawing a small weapon. ● Trick Style: Retreating Feet: The practitioner, already acquainted with many techniques in the style, has finally realized that with a little bit of personal training, they are able to increase the precision and speed at which they lift and press their feet. The practitioner's footsteps are rendered silent to all who do not have enhanced hearing, and the footsteps they leave in soft ground are shallow. This not only assists their ability to sneak up on people faster and quieter, but also helps when running from trackers. ● Trick Style: Blade’s Edge: The practitioner has developed an even greater sense of precision and is now able to throw, juggle, and catch their knives by the tip with ease. Additionally, some projectiles, such as shuriken or kunai, can be caught by their tip. Confers a slight increase to the user's reflexes. ● Offensive Style: Stepless: The practitioner has become so used to performing quick and silent steps that they scarcely realize that they themselves are moving. The user's speed and reflexes are mildly boosted. ● Offensive Style: Mistborn Stepping: Silent, swift, and sharp. The practitioner is able to creep about at a decent pace while making close to zero noise. While moving through an area where cover or some obscuring factor is present (buildings, people, fog, etc.), the practitioner gains a moderate bonus to speed and reflex. ● Skill: Multitasking: While the first two stages of the style revolve around the very basics of how to use a bow, the third stage incorporates the use multiple arrows into a more stylish way of battling. Mastery allows the user to simultaneously fire multiple arrows with any technique that does not specifically state otherwise, and allows the Arrow Creation technique to create up to three arrows at once with no increase in cost. ● Skill: Manipulation: Manipulating the bow itself is simple, but controlling the arrows is very difficult. Many enhancements can be made to arrows to give them different flight paths, but buying those kinds of arrows is expensive and making them is difficult, so a method was developed wherein the user can freely alter how an arrow flies without need for such trifles. During this training, the user practices firing arrows with abnormal hand positions. Reduces the Stamina cost of bow-related Bukijutsu techniques (including Formless Styles) by 10 Stamina, to a minimum of 5 Stamina. ● Skill: Adaptability: For the most part, the style thus far has focused on techniques to be used while stationary. However, this leads to many problems when fighting alone in situations that demand frequent movement. During this training exercise, the practitioner is to practice all known techniques while running, jumping, and maneuvering across a battlefield. After mastery, the user can align shots even while running and jumping. ● ● ● ● ● ● ●
There is Fenris grim His jaws are open wide The serpent rises from the waves Jormungandr twists and turns, mighty in his wrath The eyes are full of primal hate
Listening to Nari, Theo nodded, chuckling, “Yea, that I can do.. and don’t worry about the claws and fur and fangs I have.. Sage mode causes you to develop physical characteristics of your summoning contract, I summon bears, so I end up looking kinda like one. Far as I know you don’t have a summoning contract with any animals, so you wouldn’t look the same as me.” Theodin’s voice would turn serious suddenly, “ I’ll just warn you.. sage training can be dangerous.. failure generally means death by petrification”
Vingthor slays the guardian snake leading to the death twilight of the thundergod Ragnarök awaits as Rank: A-Rank Jounin / ANBU Class: Ninjutsu Chakra: 1805/ 1805 Sage Chakra: --- / 600 Stamina: 1305 / 1305 Jutsu / Items Used:
Passives:
Hsing-I Pakua: Awareness bonus – 6 stages Ivory Tower of Wind: Upper Body Strength Bonus – 6 stages Jungle Roots (JSJF): footing and stability increased Never an Idle Limb (JSJF): can use legs to attack and defend as well as the arms Panther’s Pounce (JSJF): mundane mobility and kicking power increased Enlightenment
As Theo explained the ins and outs of sage mode and its relation to the summoning contracts Nari breathed a sigh of relief. Though when he spoke of the dangers of sage mode again nari simply shrugged,"You know how it is here in suna as well as I do. If it doesnt almost kill you in the process then its not worth doing. Nobody in this village would back down simply out of fear of petrification. After all you can still be useful as a statue, I am sure one of the golems will stick me in or on or around the fountain should it happen."
● Iron resiliency: The user has gone through tough enough training, being roughed up and moved around in armor to understand what it feels like. The user's fortitude is mildly increased. ● Iron Disciple: The user, through hours of intense training in multiple bad scenarios, has learned the old saying of “to kill with one punch.” Because they do not want to find themselves outnumbered, or maybe for pure enjoyment sake, the user is able to hit with great intensity when striking a foe, focusing on tension, grounding, stability, and strength at the impact sight. The user's striking strength is mildly increased. ● Swift Foot: A well trained individual is usually faster than an untrained individual, and the practitioners of the Iron Fist understand this fact more than anyone. However, those of the Iron fist not only accomplish this boost of speed….they also do it in armor! The user is now unaffected by the additional weight of armor (to a logical limit), and when the user is out of armor, their body and technique speed is greatly increased at the loss of the protection. They are much more adept at bursting into action, going from standing to 100% in single moments. Conversely, the user can now perform these techniques without needing armor. Must relearn every technique at half the learning cost to perform techniques without armor to learn the different distances and timing of the techniques. Overrides restriction. ● True Belief: The user has meditated and trained long enough in this monk art to understand how important true belief is. By understanding the power of the spirit over the mind, and the mind over the body, the user has increased their stamina by sheer will power alone, as well as increased their toughness and durability. Increases Stamina by +25 for every style mastered. ● Satori [ Enlightenment ]: Meditation and spiritual exploration and understand yields interesting results. Due to the greater understanding of the self, the user is more aware of the connection between their mind, body and spirit, and how to utilize that connection. The user is now slightly more skilled at just about everything. Striking, blocking, moving, absorbing, and taking damage. The user's strength and fortitude is increased heavily. ● Offensive Style: Knife Stances: The user becomes more accustomed to upward, downward, and sideways slashing motions. Speed of all Bukijutsu employing small arms is mildly increased. ● Offensive Style: Simple Play: With this training, the user is able to more comfortably switch between upward, downward, and sideways slashing motions in a pinch. The user's reflexes are mildly increased. ● Trick Style: Knife Toss: The practitioner has developed a greater sense of precision and is now able to throw, juggle, and catch their knives by the hilt with ease. Confers a slight reflex bonus to the practitioner. ● Offensive Style: Artless Draw: The practitioner has better developed their ability to pull their blade straight from its resting place to an offensive slash. Slightly increases the speed of strikes made when drawing a small weapon. ● Trick Style: Retreating Feet: The practitioner, already acquainted with many techniques in the style, has finally realized that with a little bit of personal training, they are able to increase the precision and speed at which they lift and press their feet. The practitioner's footsteps are rendered silent to all who do not have enhanced hearing, and the footsteps they leave in soft ground are shallow. This not only assists their ability to sneak up on people faster and quieter, but also helps when running from trackers. ● Trick Style: Blade’s Edge: The practitioner has developed an even greater sense of precision and is now able to throw, juggle, and catch their knives by the tip with ease. Additionally, some projectiles, such as shuriken or kunai, can be caught by their tip. Confers a slight increase to the user's reflexes. ● Offensive Style: Stepless: The practitioner has become so used to performing quick and silent steps that they scarcely realize that they themselves are moving. The user's speed and reflexes are mildly boosted. ● Offensive Style: Mistborn Stepping: Silent, swift, and sharp. The practitioner is able to creep about at a decent pace while making close to zero noise. While moving through an area where cover or some obscuring factor is present (buildings, people, fog, etc.), the practitioner gains a moderate bonus to speed and reflex. ● Skill: Multitasking: While the first two stages of the style revolve around the very basics of how to use a bow, the third stage incorporates the use multiple arrows into a more stylish way of battling. Mastery allows the user to simultaneously fire multiple arrows with any technique that does not specifically state otherwise, and allows the Arrow Creation technique to create up to three arrows at once with no increase in cost. ● Skill: Manipulation: Manipulating the bow itself is simple, but controlling the arrows is very difficult. Many enhancements can be made to arrows to give them different flight paths, but buying those kinds of arrows is expensive and making them is difficult, so a method was developed wherein the user can freely alter how an arrow flies without need for such trifles. During this training, the user practices firing arrows with abnormal hand positions. Reduces the Stamina cost of bow-related Bukijutsu techniques (including Formless Styles) by 10 Stamina, to a minimum of 5 Stamina. ● Skill: Adaptability: For the most part, the style thus far has focused on techniques to be used while stationary. However, this leads to many problems when fighting alone in situations that demand frequent movement. During this training exercise, the practitioner is to practice all known techniques while running, jumping, and maneuvering across a battlefield. After mastery, the user can align shots even while running and jumping. ● ● ● ● ● ● ●
There is Fenris grim His jaws are open wide The serpent rises from the waves Jormungandr twists and turns, mighty in his wrath The eyes are full of primal hate
At that point, Theo couldn’t help but laugh, “You got a point there, man…oh well, shall we get started? The first thing is to find stillness… so take a seat to meditate and quiet your mind, keeping your body completely still. Once you’ve found that point, you can begin slowly opening up to and sensing the chakra that’s all around you.” Theodin would step back slightly, his staff in hand ready in case Nari tried to pull in too much sage chakra too early.
Vingthor slays the guardian snake leading to the death twilight of the thundergod Ragnarök awaits as Rank: A-Rank Jounin / ANBU Class: Ninjutsu Chakra: 1805/ 1805 Sage Chakra: --- / 600 Stamina: 1305 / 1305 Jutsu / Items Used:
Passives:
Hsing-I Pakua: Awareness bonus – 6 stages Ivory Tower of Wind: Upper Body Strength Bonus – 6 stages Jungle Roots (JSJF): footing and stability increased Never an Idle Limb (JSJF): can use legs to attack and defend as well as the arms Panther’s Pounce (JSJF): mundane mobility and kicking power increased Enlightenment
Now this was something he could do, meditation was always something that came easily for him no matter where he was or what he was doing. He had even managed to reach a zen state of being while in the middle of a battlefield before. Folding his legs underneath of him Nari nodded and took a deep cleansing breath. While he was not even close to opening himself to the bits of chakra he could see around him, he was however settling his own chakra as well as opening his mind using both his mind and his sight to try and pin down what said natural chakra feels like. [1/10]
● Iron resiliency: The user has gone through tough enough training, being roughed up and moved around in armor to understand what it feels like. The user's fortitude is mildly increased. ● Iron Disciple: The user, through hours of intense training in multiple bad scenarios, has learned the old saying of “to kill with one punch.” Because they do not want to find themselves outnumbered, or maybe for pure enjoyment sake, the user is able to hit with great intensity when striking a foe, focusing on tension, grounding, stability, and strength at the impact sight. The user's striking strength is mildly increased. ● Swift Foot: A well trained individual is usually faster than an untrained individual, and the practitioners of the Iron Fist understand this fact more than anyone. However, those of the Iron fist not only accomplish this boost of speed….they also do it in armor! The user is now unaffected by the additional weight of armor (to a logical limit), and when the user is out of armor, their body and technique speed is greatly increased at the loss of the protection. They are much more adept at bursting into action, going from standing to 100% in single moments. Conversely, the user can now perform these techniques without needing armor. Must relearn every technique at half the learning cost to perform techniques without armor to learn the different distances and timing of the techniques. Overrides restriction. ● True Belief: The user has meditated and trained long enough in this monk art to understand how important true belief is. By understanding the power of the spirit over the mind, and the mind over the body, the user has increased their stamina by sheer will power alone, as well as increased their toughness and durability. Increases Stamina by +25 for every style mastered. ● Satori [ Enlightenment ]: Meditation and spiritual exploration and understand yields interesting results. Due to the greater understanding of the self, the user is more aware of the connection between their mind, body and spirit, and how to utilize that connection. The user is now slightly more skilled at just about everything. Striking, blocking, moving, absorbing, and taking damage. The user's strength and fortitude is increased heavily. ● Offensive Style: Knife Stances: The user becomes more accustomed to upward, downward, and sideways slashing motions. Speed of all Bukijutsu employing small arms is mildly increased. ● Offensive Style: Simple Play: With this training, the user is able to more comfortably switch between upward, downward, and sideways slashing motions in a pinch. The user's reflexes are mildly increased. ● Trick Style: Knife Toss: The practitioner has developed a greater sense of precision and is now able to throw, juggle, and catch their knives by the hilt with ease. Confers a slight reflex bonus to the practitioner. ● Offensive Style: Artless Draw: The practitioner has better developed their ability to pull their blade straight from its resting place to an offensive slash. Slightly increases the speed of strikes made when drawing a small weapon. ● Trick Style: Retreating Feet: The practitioner, already acquainted with many techniques in the style, has finally realized that with a little bit of personal training, they are able to increase the precision and speed at which they lift and press their feet. The practitioner's footsteps are rendered silent to all who do not have enhanced hearing, and the footsteps they leave in soft ground are shallow. This not only assists their ability to sneak up on people faster and quieter, but also helps when running from trackers. ● Trick Style: Blade’s Edge: The practitioner has developed an even greater sense of precision and is now able to throw, juggle, and catch their knives by the tip with ease. Additionally, some projectiles, such as shuriken or kunai, can be caught by their tip. Confers a slight increase to the user's reflexes. ● Offensive Style: Stepless: The practitioner has become so used to performing quick and silent steps that they scarcely realize that they themselves are moving. The user's speed and reflexes are mildly boosted. ● Offensive Style: Mistborn Stepping: Silent, swift, and sharp. The practitioner is able to creep about at a decent pace while making close to zero noise. While moving through an area where cover or some obscuring factor is present (buildings, people, fog, etc.), the practitioner gains a moderate bonus to speed and reflex. ● Skill: Multitasking: While the first two stages of the style revolve around the very basics of how to use a bow, the third stage incorporates the use multiple arrows into a more stylish way of battling. Mastery allows the user to simultaneously fire multiple arrows with any technique that does not specifically state otherwise, and allows the Arrow Creation technique to create up to three arrows at once with no increase in cost. ● Skill: Manipulation: Manipulating the bow itself is simple, but controlling the arrows is very difficult. Many enhancements can be made to arrows to give them different flight paths, but buying those kinds of arrows is expensive and making them is difficult, so a method was developed wherein the user can freely alter how an arrow flies without need for such trifles. During this training, the user practices firing arrows with abnormal hand positions. Reduces the Stamina cost of bow-related Bukijutsu techniques (including Formless Styles) by 10 Stamina, to a minimum of 5 Stamina. ● Skill: Adaptability: For the most part, the style thus far has focused on techniques to be used while stationary. However, this leads to many problems when fighting alone in situations that demand frequent movement. During this training exercise, the practitioner is to practice all known techniques while running, jumping, and maneuvering across a battlefield. After mastery, the user can align shots even while running and jumping. ● ● ● ● ● ● ●
There is Fenris grim His jaws are open wide The serpent rises from the waves Jormungandr twists and turns, mighty in his wrath The eyes are full of primal hate
Theo watched as Nari took his meditative position and slowly sank into it, “Good, to start off, get your chakra to settle, and feel the natural chakra around you as you reach out to sense everyone around: me standing here, anyone that might be up in the higher floors of the dojo, whatever you can manage to start..”
Vingthor slays the guardian snake leading to the death twilight of the thundergod Ragnarök awaits as Rank: A-Rank Jounin / ANBU Class: Ninjutsu Chakra: 1805/ 1805 Sage Chakra: --- / 600 Stamina: 1305 / 1305 Jutsu / Items Used:
Passives:
Hsing-I Pakua: Awareness bonus – 6 stages Ivory Tower of Wind: Upper Body Strength Bonus – 6 stages Jungle Roots (JSJF): footing and stability increased Never an Idle Limb (JSJF): can use legs to attack and defend as well as the arms Panther’s Pounce (JSJF): mundane mobility and kicking power increased Enlightenment
Without really moving Nari smirked quickly,"Yea sorry buddy, sensory is not exactly my strongest suit so you will need to bear with me." While it was true that his ability to sense purely chakra was limited his ability to control his chakra and his ability to sense intent and feelings was supreme. Though even with that being said he could see feel and sense those all around him even a couple of floors above him. With another light breath his chakra slowed even more till it eventually grew still and sublime. [2/10]
● Iron resiliency: The user has gone through tough enough training, being roughed up and moved around in armor to understand what it feels like. The user's fortitude is mildly increased. ● Iron Disciple: The user, through hours of intense training in multiple bad scenarios, has learned the old saying of “to kill with one punch.” Because they do not want to find themselves outnumbered, or maybe for pure enjoyment sake, the user is able to hit with great intensity when striking a foe, focusing on tension, grounding, stability, and strength at the impact sight. The user's striking strength is mildly increased. ● Swift Foot: A well trained individual is usually faster than an untrained individual, and the practitioners of the Iron Fist understand this fact more than anyone. However, those of the Iron fist not only accomplish this boost of speed….they also do it in armor! The user is now unaffected by the additional weight of armor (to a logical limit), and when the user is out of armor, their body and technique speed is greatly increased at the loss of the protection. They are much more adept at bursting into action, going from standing to 100% in single moments. Conversely, the user can now perform these techniques without needing armor. Must relearn every technique at half the learning cost to perform techniques without armor to learn the different distances and timing of the techniques. Overrides restriction. ● True Belief: The user has meditated and trained long enough in this monk art to understand how important true belief is. By understanding the power of the spirit over the mind, and the mind over the body, the user has increased their stamina by sheer will power alone, as well as increased their toughness and durability. Increases Stamina by +25 for every style mastered. ● Satori [ Enlightenment ]: Meditation and spiritual exploration and understand yields interesting results. Due to the greater understanding of the self, the user is more aware of the connection between their mind, body and spirit, and how to utilize that connection. The user is now slightly more skilled at just about everything. Striking, blocking, moving, absorbing, and taking damage. The user's strength and fortitude is increased heavily. ● Offensive Style: Knife Stances: The user becomes more accustomed to upward, downward, and sideways slashing motions. Speed of all Bukijutsu employing small arms is mildly increased. ● Offensive Style: Simple Play: With this training, the user is able to more comfortably switch between upward, downward, and sideways slashing motions in a pinch. The user's reflexes are mildly increased. ● Trick Style: Knife Toss: The practitioner has developed a greater sense of precision and is now able to throw, juggle, and catch their knives by the hilt with ease. Confers a slight reflex bonus to the practitioner. ● Offensive Style: Artless Draw: The practitioner has better developed their ability to pull their blade straight from its resting place to an offensive slash. Slightly increases the speed of strikes made when drawing a small weapon. ● Trick Style: Retreating Feet: The practitioner, already acquainted with many techniques in the style, has finally realized that with a little bit of personal training, they are able to increase the precision and speed at which they lift and press their feet. The practitioner's footsteps are rendered silent to all who do not have enhanced hearing, and the footsteps they leave in soft ground are shallow. This not only assists their ability to sneak up on people faster and quieter, but also helps when running from trackers. ● Trick Style: Blade’s Edge: The practitioner has developed an even greater sense of precision and is now able to throw, juggle, and catch their knives by the tip with ease. Additionally, some projectiles, such as shuriken or kunai, can be caught by their tip. Confers a slight increase to the user's reflexes. ● Offensive Style: Stepless: The practitioner has become so used to performing quick and silent steps that they scarcely realize that they themselves are moving. The user's speed and reflexes are mildly boosted. ● Offensive Style: Mistborn Stepping: Silent, swift, and sharp. The practitioner is able to creep about at a decent pace while making close to zero noise. While moving through an area where cover or some obscuring factor is present (buildings, people, fog, etc.), the practitioner gains a moderate bonus to speed and reflex. ● Skill: Multitasking: While the first two stages of the style revolve around the very basics of how to use a bow, the third stage incorporates the use multiple arrows into a more stylish way of battling. Mastery allows the user to simultaneously fire multiple arrows with any technique that does not specifically state otherwise, and allows the Arrow Creation technique to create up to three arrows at once with no increase in cost. ● Skill: Manipulation: Manipulating the bow itself is simple, but controlling the arrows is very difficult. Many enhancements can be made to arrows to give them different flight paths, but buying those kinds of arrows is expensive and making them is difficult, so a method was developed wherein the user can freely alter how an arrow flies without need for such trifles. During this training, the user practices firing arrows with abnormal hand positions. Reduces the Stamina cost of bow-related Bukijutsu techniques (including Formless Styles) by 10 Stamina, to a minimum of 5 Stamina. ● Skill: Adaptability: For the most part, the style thus far has focused on techniques to be used while stationary. However, this leads to many problems when fighting alone in situations that demand frequent movement. During this training exercise, the practitioner is to practice all known techniques while running, jumping, and maneuvering across a battlefield. After mastery, the user can align shots even while running and jumping. ● ● ● ● ● ● ●
There is Fenris grim His jaws are open wide The serpent rises from the waves Jormungandr twists and turns, mighty in his wrath The eyes are full of primal hate
Still watching Nari, Theo kept his sage mode active so he could sense the man’s chakra as he trained. Nodding as he felt everything settle, Theo spoke softly, “Alright.. now try to open your mind and body to the natural chakra.. but keep it a very small, slow rate as it can be overwhelming at first.” Theo would step closer to the other jounin, getting his staff ready, just in case.
Vingthor slays the guardian snake leading to the death twilight of the thundergod Ragnarök awaits as Rank: A-Rank Jounin / ANBU Class: Ninjutsu Chakra: 1805/ 1805 Sage Chakra: --- / 600 Stamina: 1305 / 1305 Jutsu / Items Used:
Passives:
Hsing-I Pakua: Awareness bonus – 6 stages Ivory Tower of Wind: Upper Body Strength Bonus – 6 stages Jungle Roots (JSJF): footing and stability increased Never an Idle Limb (JSJF): can use legs to attack and defend as well as the arms Panther’s Pounce (JSJF): mundane mobility and kicking power increased Enlightenment
When it came to overwhelming and invasive chakra, nari was starting to become something of an expert. So naturally he was definitely hesitant when it came to opening himself up to yet another form of chakra though not so much as to backpedal during training. Taking a deep breath he kept his chakra stable and still while trying to pull trace, almost negligible, amounts of the ambient chakra towards himself. [3/10]
● Iron resiliency: The user has gone through tough enough training, being roughed up and moved around in armor to understand what it feels like. The user's fortitude is mildly increased. ● Iron Disciple: The user, through hours of intense training in multiple bad scenarios, has learned the old saying of “to kill with one punch.” Because they do not want to find themselves outnumbered, or maybe for pure enjoyment sake, the user is able to hit with great intensity when striking a foe, focusing on tension, grounding, stability, and strength at the impact sight. The user's striking strength is mildly increased. ● Swift Foot: A well trained individual is usually faster than an untrained individual, and the practitioners of the Iron Fist understand this fact more than anyone. However, those of the Iron fist not only accomplish this boost of speed….they also do it in armor! The user is now unaffected by the additional weight of armor (to a logical limit), and when the user is out of armor, their body and technique speed is greatly increased at the loss of the protection. They are much more adept at bursting into action, going from standing to 100% in single moments. Conversely, the user can now perform these techniques without needing armor. Must relearn every technique at half the learning cost to perform techniques without armor to learn the different distances and timing of the techniques. Overrides restriction. ● True Belief: The user has meditated and trained long enough in this monk art to understand how important true belief is. By understanding the power of the spirit over the mind, and the mind over the body, the user has increased their stamina by sheer will power alone, as well as increased their toughness and durability. Increases Stamina by +25 for every style mastered. ● Satori [ Enlightenment ]: Meditation and spiritual exploration and understand yields interesting results. Due to the greater understanding of the self, the user is more aware of the connection between their mind, body and spirit, and how to utilize that connection. The user is now slightly more skilled at just about everything. Striking, blocking, moving, absorbing, and taking damage. The user's strength and fortitude is increased heavily. ● Offensive Style: Knife Stances: The user becomes more accustomed to upward, downward, and sideways slashing motions. Speed of all Bukijutsu employing small arms is mildly increased. ● Offensive Style: Simple Play: With this training, the user is able to more comfortably switch between upward, downward, and sideways slashing motions in a pinch. The user's reflexes are mildly increased. ● Trick Style: Knife Toss: The practitioner has developed a greater sense of precision and is now able to throw, juggle, and catch their knives by the hilt with ease. Confers a slight reflex bonus to the practitioner. ● Offensive Style: Artless Draw: The practitioner has better developed their ability to pull their blade straight from its resting place to an offensive slash. Slightly increases the speed of strikes made when drawing a small weapon. ● Trick Style: Retreating Feet: The practitioner, already acquainted with many techniques in the style, has finally realized that with a little bit of personal training, they are able to increase the precision and speed at which they lift and press their feet. The practitioner's footsteps are rendered silent to all who do not have enhanced hearing, and the footsteps they leave in soft ground are shallow. This not only assists their ability to sneak up on people faster and quieter, but also helps when running from trackers. ● Trick Style: Blade’s Edge: The practitioner has developed an even greater sense of precision and is now able to throw, juggle, and catch their knives by the tip with ease. Additionally, some projectiles, such as shuriken or kunai, can be caught by their tip. Confers a slight increase to the user's reflexes. ● Offensive Style: Stepless: The practitioner has become so used to performing quick and silent steps that they scarcely realize that they themselves are moving. The user's speed and reflexes are mildly boosted. ● Offensive Style: Mistborn Stepping: Silent, swift, and sharp. The practitioner is able to creep about at a decent pace while making close to zero noise. While moving through an area where cover or some obscuring factor is present (buildings, people, fog, etc.), the practitioner gains a moderate bonus to speed and reflex. ● Skill: Multitasking: While the first two stages of the style revolve around the very basics of how to use a bow, the third stage incorporates the use multiple arrows into a more stylish way of battling. Mastery allows the user to simultaneously fire multiple arrows with any technique that does not specifically state otherwise, and allows the Arrow Creation technique to create up to three arrows at once with no increase in cost. ● Skill: Manipulation: Manipulating the bow itself is simple, but controlling the arrows is very difficult. Many enhancements can be made to arrows to give them different flight paths, but buying those kinds of arrows is expensive and making them is difficult, so a method was developed wherein the user can freely alter how an arrow flies without need for such trifles. During this training, the user practices firing arrows with abnormal hand positions. Reduces the Stamina cost of bow-related Bukijutsu techniques (including Formless Styles) by 10 Stamina, to a minimum of 5 Stamina. ● Skill: Adaptability: For the most part, the style thus far has focused on techniques to be used while stationary. However, this leads to many problems when fighting alone in situations that demand frequent movement. During this training exercise, the practitioner is to practice all known techniques while running, jumping, and maneuvering across a battlefield. After mastery, the user can align shots even while running and jumping. ● ● ● ● ● ● ●
There is Fenris grim His jaws are open wide The serpent rises from the waves Jormungandr twists and turns, mighty in his wrath The eyes are full of primal hate
Watching Nari open up, he nodded, the man was doing fairly well. “Not bad.. Senjutsu chakra is a blend of the natural ambient chakra and your own, so as you let the natural chakra in, hold it with your own and see if you can find the balance. That’s where this is headed.”
Vingthor slays the guardian snake leading to the death twilight of the thundergod Ragnarök awaits as Rank: A-Rank Jounin / ANBU Class: Ninjutsu Chakra: 1805/ 1805 Sage Chakra: --- / 600 Stamina: 1305 / 1305 Jutsu / Items Used:
Passives:
Hsing-I Pakua: Awareness bonus – 6 stages Ivory Tower of Wind: Upper Body Strength Bonus – 6 stages Jungle Roots (JSJF): footing and stability increased Never an Idle Limb (JSJF): can use legs to attack and defend as well as the arms Panther’s Pounce (JSJF): mundane mobility and kicking power increased Enlightenment
So a balance between the two was the key, that was something he should reasonably be able to do right? After all he had pretty much mastered the balance between physical and spiritual energy to create chakra. Though as he tried to pull more and more in he quickly realized that finding said balance was going to be much easier said then done. Especially considering that this particular chakra was stubborn. [4/10]
● Iron resiliency: The user has gone through tough enough training, being roughed up and moved around in armor to understand what it feels like. The user's fortitude is mildly increased. ● Iron Disciple: The user, through hours of intense training in multiple bad scenarios, has learned the old saying of “to kill with one punch.” Because they do not want to find themselves outnumbered, or maybe for pure enjoyment sake, the user is able to hit with great intensity when striking a foe, focusing on tension, grounding, stability, and strength at the impact sight. The user's striking strength is mildly increased. ● Swift Foot: A well trained individual is usually faster than an untrained individual, and the practitioners of the Iron Fist understand this fact more than anyone. However, those of the Iron fist not only accomplish this boost of speed….they also do it in armor! The user is now unaffected by the additional weight of armor (to a logical limit), and when the user is out of armor, their body and technique speed is greatly increased at the loss of the protection. They are much more adept at bursting into action, going from standing to 100% in single moments. Conversely, the user can now perform these techniques without needing armor. Must relearn every technique at half the learning cost to perform techniques without armor to learn the different distances and timing of the techniques. Overrides restriction. ● True Belief: The user has meditated and trained long enough in this monk art to understand how important true belief is. By understanding the power of the spirit over the mind, and the mind over the body, the user has increased their stamina by sheer will power alone, as well as increased their toughness and durability. Increases Stamina by +25 for every style mastered. ● Satori [ Enlightenment ]: Meditation and spiritual exploration and understand yields interesting results. Due to the greater understanding of the self, the user is more aware of the connection between their mind, body and spirit, and how to utilize that connection. The user is now slightly more skilled at just about everything. Striking, blocking, moving, absorbing, and taking damage. The user's strength and fortitude is increased heavily. ● Offensive Style: Knife Stances: The user becomes more accustomed to upward, downward, and sideways slashing motions. Speed of all Bukijutsu employing small arms is mildly increased. ● Offensive Style: Simple Play: With this training, the user is able to more comfortably switch between upward, downward, and sideways slashing motions in a pinch. The user's reflexes are mildly increased. ● Trick Style: Knife Toss: The practitioner has developed a greater sense of precision and is now able to throw, juggle, and catch their knives by the hilt with ease. Confers a slight reflex bonus to the practitioner. ● Offensive Style: Artless Draw: The practitioner has better developed their ability to pull their blade straight from its resting place to an offensive slash. Slightly increases the speed of strikes made when drawing a small weapon. ● Trick Style: Retreating Feet: The practitioner, already acquainted with many techniques in the style, has finally realized that with a little bit of personal training, they are able to increase the precision and speed at which they lift and press their feet. The practitioner's footsteps are rendered silent to all who do not have enhanced hearing, and the footsteps they leave in soft ground are shallow. This not only assists their ability to sneak up on people faster and quieter, but also helps when running from trackers. ● Trick Style: Blade’s Edge: The practitioner has developed an even greater sense of precision and is now able to throw, juggle, and catch their knives by the tip with ease. Additionally, some projectiles, such as shuriken or kunai, can be caught by their tip. Confers a slight increase to the user's reflexes. ● Offensive Style: Stepless: The practitioner has become so used to performing quick and silent steps that they scarcely realize that they themselves are moving. The user's speed and reflexes are mildly boosted. ● Offensive Style: Mistborn Stepping: Silent, swift, and sharp. The practitioner is able to creep about at a decent pace while making close to zero noise. While moving through an area where cover or some obscuring factor is present (buildings, people, fog, etc.), the practitioner gains a moderate bonus to speed and reflex. ● Skill: Multitasking: While the first two stages of the style revolve around the very basics of how to use a bow, the third stage incorporates the use multiple arrows into a more stylish way of battling. Mastery allows the user to simultaneously fire multiple arrows with any technique that does not specifically state otherwise, and allows the Arrow Creation technique to create up to three arrows at once with no increase in cost. ● Skill: Manipulation: Manipulating the bow itself is simple, but controlling the arrows is very difficult. Many enhancements can be made to arrows to give them different flight paths, but buying those kinds of arrows is expensive and making them is difficult, so a method was developed wherein the user can freely alter how an arrow flies without need for such trifles. During this training, the user practices firing arrows with abnormal hand positions. Reduces the Stamina cost of bow-related Bukijutsu techniques (including Formless Styles) by 10 Stamina, to a minimum of 5 Stamina. ● Skill: Adaptability: For the most part, the style thus far has focused on techniques to be used while stationary. However, this leads to many problems when fighting alone in situations that demand frequent movement. During this training exercise, the practitioner is to practice all known techniques while running, jumping, and maneuvering across a battlefield. After mastery, the user can align shots even while running and jumping. ● ● ● ● ● ● ●
