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Re: A Deeper Perspective [Open]
Sat Aug 05, 2023 2:23 pm
To her credit, Mizu had just managed to thwart the intended outcome, utilizing Yuuto's training Shura had intended on building up her momentum to a point where Mizu wouldn't be able to follow. However the box she placed Shura in prevented her from continuing such. "Interesting..." She said softly, her eyes still locked onto Mizu as the small hole appeared. So this was a Kido-user, should've expected that with Hannah around.
However, despite the fact that she was now trapped in what would seem to be an incoming inferno, Shura did not make a move to stop it... Rather as the hole opened her Zanpakuto swiftly moved to pierce through the opened hole, giving Mizu but a single choice... Abandon her Shakkaho, or have a Zanpakuto run through her hand. Either way the Zanpakuto didn't stay motionless, rather it swiftly was ripped to the right, aiming to cleave open the barrier from both inside and out and break Shura free to continue her assault against Mizu.
- Techniques:
Raijin no Tsuyosa to Hayasa (Thunder God’s Might and Speed) – Due to her sole focus on Zanjtusu and Hoho during her time at the academy when she left she was considered to have no equal within the academy.
Raijin no Tsume (Thunder God’s Claw) – Shura channels her Reiatsu directly into her Zanpakuto, causing it to ignore air resistance and swing with significantly greater speed and force, able to cut through things that she would normally be unable to even damage. When she uses this technique, a loud roar can be heard emanating from her Zanpakuto, causing shockwaves to reverberate outwards that can sometimes knock lesser opponents within ten meters to the ground.
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Re: A Deeper Perspective [Open]
Thu Aug 10, 2023 9:10 pm
Her ploy had worked... to an extent. The barrier that had trapped her had been shattered, but it wasn't without a cost, to say that she was caught within an inferno would be an understatement. It was a level of pain that seared across her body unlike any she'd felt before, most pain she'd felt was caused from a cut or some kind of blunt force impacting her like being slammed into the ground. This however was different in its entirety, it felt like she was in an oven, the cry she let out was of agony yet strangely was not tinged with pain like one might expect. It was a cry of... excited agony?
The exact nature of it at the very least made it seem like Shura enjoyed the agony it put her in, and with a swipe of her Zanpakuto she blew the smoke away from her, to reveal a Shinigami whose Shihakasho was heavily burnt, revealing skin underneath that was also burned from the impact. It was clear the attempt to trap her within the inferno had dealt damage to her, yet as she swung her blade forward to point towards Mizu it was clear the damage wasn't enough to slow her movement "Now THAT is what I was hoping for! Morikawa Mizu!"
While she had a grin on her face, she still portrayed a calm demeanor. As her form vanished into a Shunpo once more, she did not strike from the front as she had previously, though this was another attempt at a multi-strike attack, this time she came from different angles, wanting to now test the reflexes of Mizu and how she responded to strikes from differing angles. She knew now that Mizu had barriers that could trap her, and she'd do her utmost to avoid such traps again.
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Raijin no Tsuyosa to Hayasa (Thunder God’s Might and Speed) – Due to her sole focus on Zanjtusu and Hoho during her time at the academy when she left she was considered to have no equal within the academy.
Raijin no Tsume (Thunder God’s Claw) – Shura channels her Reiatsu directly into her Zanpakuto, causing it to ignore air resistance and swing with significantly greater speed and force, able to cut through things that she would normally be unable to even damage. When she uses this technique, a loud roar can be heard emanating from her Zanpakuto, causing shockwaves to reverberate outwards that can sometimes knock lesser opponents within ten meters to the ground.
raijin no senko (thunder god’s flash step) – a variation of shunpo that she created during her time at the academy and has since mastered, using this technique shura employs high speed strikes from constantly differing angles to a total of 5 strikes that happen in extremely rapid succession, and the moment after her blade makes impact she has already vanished to strike at a different angle.
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Re: A Deeper Perspective [Open]
Fri Aug 11, 2023 12:41 pm
Barriers... Barrier after barrier after barrier. It seemed to be a specialty of Mizu, though unsurprising. Most Kido-users were reluctant to resort to the use of their Zanpakuto until they were forced. But this was good for Shura, it helped learn what she could and couldn't cut through in her base. Each strike formed cracks in the barrier, slowly whittling away at the outermost barrier if she'd struck the same spot she'd off broken through quite a bit faster... but the fact she could crack it meant the layers were required to ensure her safety.
Safety was what she needed it seemed, with her hands against the walls Shura had assumed it was to further enhance the barriers, a common tactic amongst kido-users she'd learned, Kōjutsu Eishō. The one difference however, was she heard no words being spoken by Mizu. Shura knew of Eishōhaki, the art of forgoing an incantation to allow Kido to be used faster... But that was for summoning the kido forth, not for after it was already unleashed.
However in her contemplation she missed what was truly happening, and when she finally noticed the sound of roaring water it was too late already and Shura found herself caught within the torrential downpour and swept away from the barrier. While she wasn't swept to the edges of their confines, she was carried quite a distance away before the water receded back to Mizu, forming a crystalline shell made of ice around her. It was now that she realized why she'd missed the cast, the words weren't spoken... they were formed above Mizu.
Her eyes narrowed as she saw the next word form, and shortly after the ice erupted outwards with razor-sharp spears being flung in all directions. Even if Shura had the time to close the distance, the number of shards being flung made the space she had available at such a close range impossible to avoid the spikes. So rather than charging forward she focused her energy instead on dodging, using her Shunpo to move quickly between the shards, each time she reappeared she was in a different position, with each reappearance requiring several strikes from her Zanpakuto to deflect yet more shards.
Yet despite her adept use of not only Hoho, but the precision of her strikes, the number of icicles that were unleashed left her little ability to not be struck by at least a few of them. None of them struck vital parts of her however, and when the last of them were gone Shura hovered in the air for the briefest of moments before pointing her blade towards Mizu. Naught but a moment later it was raised skywards and her Reiatsu surged.
"Area Denial, a good tactic in any other situation. Let me show you how it is done." Her words, while still calm in their delivery, held a tone of seriousness that she didn't have prior.
As the Reiatsu that encompassed her on release dissipated, Shura came into a spinning dive straight towards the ground, a single streak of yellow Reiatsu rotating around her where she held her axe.
As the head of her axe slammed into the ground the yellow Reiatsu that had been built up within it was discharged, sending the energy through the ground. A few moments later what was normally contained to nearly 100 meters found itself even more tightly constrained, the energy being sent not just through the ground but up the walls of the barrier that encased them and even to the top itself. All before torrents of Reiatsu erupted out of the ground, walls, and ceiling of this barrier.
Shura's Sekai no Hametsu was normally reserved for encasing her enemies within a highly dangerous area, ensuring they couldn't escape her... However as each of the torrents hit a wall, floor, ceiling, or other torrent it was effectively ricocheted, causing it to swell and encompass the majority of the area. Even Shura herself was not safe from this admittedly rather reckless use of it, having to immediately fall into a defensive stance and begin dodging them herself.
However this wasn't meant to be safe for anyone, she wanted to test the limits of not only the barriers that Mizu could put up, but the strength of the barrier Hannah had placed around them.
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Sekai no Hametsu (Worldly Destruction) – Shura brings her axe down hard into the ground, sending out a massive shockwave through the ground before torrents of Reiatsu begin to erupt from the ground in various areas. The exact spots they erupt from is not within her control but are contained to a 100 meters, and using this ability expends a large amount of her Reiatsu and thus can only be used two times before she becomes completely exhausted.
Raijin no Tsuyosa to Hayasa (Thunder God’s Might and Speed) – Due to her sole focus on Zanjtusu and Hoho during her time at the academy when she left she was considered to have no equal within the academy.
Raijin no Tsume (Thunder God’s Claw) – Shura channels her Reiatsu directly into her Zanpakuto, causing it to ignore air resistance and swing with significantly greater speed and force, able to cut through things that she would normally be unable to even damage. When she uses this technique, a loud roar can be heard emanating from her Zanpakuto, causing shockwaves to reverberate outwards that can sometimes knock lesser opponents within ten meters to the ground.
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Re: A Deeper Perspective [Open]
Fri Aug 11, 2023 12:59 pm
As the torrent of energy hit the wall, floor, and ceiling that the barrier was making up around them, it simply faded away, being ripped to pieces and dispersed wide across the whole front of it to minimalize damage to any one part of the barrier. Not content to simply stand and take it like a normal barrier, the thing was active in the defence of itself. It was questionable, then, if the complete lack of damage to the impact zones was because of this nature, or simply due to the fact that it was that durable.
Certainly made for interesting battlefield adaptation training though.
Certainly made for interesting battlefield adaptation training though.
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Re: A Deeper Perspective [Open]
Tue Aug 15, 2023 8:55 am
It was interesting to say the least, Hannah's barrier had held up as she expected and without even so much as a crack within it, it would seem... how very interesting. However what was more interesting was the results of her test against the Vice Captain. When all was said and done, she remained now in the air surrounded by a half barrier. However the Zanpakuto handle in her hand didn't go unnoticed, apparently not one for flashy releases it seemed.
It wasn't uncommon to Shura, releasing ones Shikai without speaking was something most experienced Shinigami could do. However she had to admit there were few she'd personally met that could do it, let alone do it under pressure. However her words weren't taken as her talking down to her, rather she took them as a challenge. Mizu had responded with the release of her own Zanpakuto, that meant that she either respected the power that Shura had or wasn't taking chances against it. Both answers were satisfactory for Shura. "That word ain't even in my vocabulary, Morikawa Mizu. Such things are for the likes of non-combat squads."
It was time to test just how powerful this barrier was, was it a fluke that she'd defended against her Sekai no Hametsu? Or was her barrier actually something to respect? Without a word she raised the axe above her head, starting to spin it ever faster above her and causing her Reiatsu to begin pouring into it. "However, if you're so confident in that barrier of yours...." Her words were cut off as she was shot forward like a rocket towards Mizu, her axe moving in a swinging overhead arc aimed to clash directly into the barrier she had in front of her.
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Girochin (Guillotine) – Shura raises her axe above her head and begins to rapidly spin it, causing her Reiatsu to begin to gather within the blade of her axe massively increasing its cutting potency before it’s brought down in an overhead swing in a similar manner to an executioner.
Raijin no Tsuyosa to Hayasa (Thunder God’s Might and Speed) – Due to her sole focus on Zanjtusu and Hoho during her time at the academy when she left she was considered to have no equal within the academy.
Raijin no Tsume (Thunder God’s Claw) – Shura channels her Reiatsu directly into her Zanpakuto, causing it to ignore air resistance and swing with significantly greater speed and force, able to cut through things that she would normally be unable to even damage. When she uses this technique, a loud roar can be heard emanating from her Zanpakuto, causing shockwaves to reverberate outwards that can sometimes knock lesser opponents within ten meters to the ground.
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