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"Well of course. I have already got a few key ideas as to how to work this."

Tagg sat on the floor, then preceded to flop down and rest. Her eyes closed. Her fist clenched. She fell into a sleep for the night.

As was his habit, Daven closed his eyes for a few moments and let the tension and strain drain out of him. But since he didn't sleep, he decided to practice while they were sleeping.

He drew his weapon and summoned his Bankai. While it was large and loud, he shunpoed to the other end of the training area and started working to perfect a technique he had been working on.

He used his naginata to toss some Earth up into the air, and used his kinetic control to start moving it around. He didn't make any motions, he stood stoiaclly and used his mind and the powers of Kidorui Genso to forge the Earth and the Air into weapons, Air Blades, Earth Hammers, Air Bullets, Earth Spears, Rock and a Hard Place, Confining Walls, Air Barrier, Earthquake and Tornado and even more.

He smashed, crushed, exploded. He pulled out many targets and Aranacar or Hollow fakes, and more. He pulled the air out of one, making it implode and basically create a vacuum in their lungs. And with that lower pressure inside, he smashed with the Air from all directions and crushed the target.

And during all this, he stood, not moving. He barely blinked. The Hollows swirled around him, thirty or forty moving and trying to attack him, but none got close. Daven kept up a wall of moving and swirling Earth, blowing rocks and dust and leaves all around him, in an ever moving wall, preventing any from approaching him.

Once all the targets were dead, he pulled out a Hollow Bait and broke it, making sure to scatter it into the air so that it got more dispersed.

In a few moments, Daven felt the Hollows start to arrive. Five, eight, ten, seventeen, thirty, fifty, and Daven knew that the call was a strong one.

He caused the Air to start moving and changing, flowing around all of them, attacking them from all directions. He slashed them with Air, tortured them with Earth, and when he got the idea, he quickly slashed one hollow to release its blood everywhere, he started pulling the blood out of the hollows themselves, making them bleed from every pore and orifice, separating the Water from their body.

Some would come too near, and he would hit them with his Naginata and then make them start attacking the others, by controlling their muscles directly. And then he had an idea.

The Air was under his control, and so he compressed it all over the body of the four or five Hollows nearest, and used that as a body suit to directly control their movements, like a puppet.

And he noticed that he was tiring a lot. He was using a lot of reiatsu up and finally decided to just finish it up. He fired several Air Bullets to take care of the rest quickly and just make them go away.

Once the last was done, he waited for a bit to make sure that none others would show up, and he relaxed and waited to make sure no others showed up to fight.

He sealed up Kidorui Genso again, put the sword away and knelt to meditate a bit.

Daven came back to himself and shunpoed to Bullene.

"Mostly it's up to you. We keep practicing this, working on the sensitivity of your reiatsu sense and working from there.

"Once that is mastered so that you can tell twins apart blindfolded from two miles away by using only your reiatsu sense, then we can work on your reiatsu output and allowing you to exactly match their output, which is the point of the Reverse Demon counterstrike."

Daven smiled.

"Very good Bull. I've been very impressed with the way you have grown. You have managed to be able to tell the difference with the most minute of clues.

"Now we move on to the next phase."

The next part was harder. He not only had to identify the reiatsu signature, but he had to do it very quickly. Just getting him to the point where he could do so in a day, or even in a minute was a MAJOR hurdle overcome, but now he had to do it in under a fraction of a second.

If he couldn't do that, it was over.

***

"AGAIN!" Daven snapped at Bull.

He knew he was being cruel. Bull wasn't doing the identification quickly enough, and if he couldn't do that, he would get creamed in a fight.

Daven was now using his multiples to force him to identify Daven and deflect attacks before they landed.

For instance, right now, there were five different Davens standing in front of Bull. Each would draw and fire an Arrow from a typical Samurai bow. One was real, the other four were illusions.

Bull's job was to identify Daven, who was always firing a real arrow, and deflect that arrow before it struck him. Each draw/fire sequence happened in under five seconds, and to make it harder, each cycle Daven shifted his position with all the other copies of himself.

Daven was really irritable because this was demanding a lot of him as well.

So far, after doing this for six hours, Bull had only deflected the Arrows by luck, not by skill or ability. He had not gotten two in a row yet.

"Better! Now we do it faster."

Daven could fire arrows at the rate of two per second. He had trained himself to do so in the far past. Could Bull deflect them that quickly?

Bullene was able to pick out Daven from among the others he had, and Daven increased the numbers he had to work against. Shifting, shunpo, stepping onto the air, moving his doppelgängers, making them fire, and on and on and on, it was hard work, but Bullene was rising to the challenge of that, and it was a joy to see.

As he was able to accurately deflect the real arrow from among the many copies, all nearly duplicates of the original, Daven realized that it was time to step it to the next level.

"Good, that's excellent for this level of training. Now to the next part. Reproducing, accurately, another reiatsu level of power. You have to be able to sense, identify, combine and replicate that reiatsu in order to know the Reverse Demon.

"So, now I stand here and I will change the power with which I strike at you with my reiatsu, and your job is to identify that level and then completely reproduce it to counter, with a reiatsu surge that exactly mimics the force coming at you.

"Only then will you be able to do the Reverse Demon."

Daven stood there, about two feet from Bull. He did a few practice strikes, just punches with some reiatsu energy in them. While physically he was no where in the vicinity to hit Bullene, the reiatsu would hit Bull if he could not cancel it out.

Daven started punching, once every second, like a metronome. Each strike had a different power signature and a different level of power. Bull would be hurt if he didn't learn to quickly counter them.

Daven watched his Captain with compassion. He remembered vividly when he went through this. He purposefully put himself into very dangerous situations to force his mental proceses to make a leap of intuition to save his life.

But once that leap was made, there was nothing that could take it away.

Speed was necessary, to identify the shifting reiatsu levels instantly, be able to generate a counter charge on the same frequency and level to be able to cancel out the blast, that was the essence of the Reverse Demon. It left very little room for error, it meant you had to do multiple high kido and high reiatsu skills instantly and all at one time.

But once this was mastered by Bullene, there would be few with the same control of reiatsu that he would have. He would be capable of shifting his reiatsu frequency at will, to whatever he wanted it to be, change the level, the force and so on. It would become an incredible tool in his arsenal of combat.

And all that would be necessary to master shunko, the Flash Punches.

Daven was nodding.

"You did it. Once. Now, once you have had a rest, you have to replicate it again, preferably more than once."

But he was very proud of his student.