β°β°β° Description:
Named after the will of the people, meaning "Will of Iron" Tetsu Ishi no Ryu is a school of sword arts that are taught to all of their militant class. The style was born from the compilation of several hundred years of combat, creating a common art of combat between soldiers that yielded more kills than other swords schools of it's founding years. While most single sword arts of the world, including others that originate from the land of iron depend on the user's unarmored speed and agility to support their combat style, the Will of Iron is quite different. The school boasts the longevity of their students as they must learn to function in full armor and likewise learn to defeat those who wear armor and break through defenses to get a powerful killing stroke.
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β°β°β° Style Creation Credits:
β’ Kondo Kaicho
β’ Wolfe Whitehorn
Named after the will of the people, meaning "Will of Iron" Tetsu Ishi no Ryu is a school of sword arts that are taught to all of their militant class. The style was born from the compilation of several hundred years of combat, creating a common art of combat between soldiers that yielded more kills than other swords schools of it's founding years. While most single sword arts of the world, including others that originate from the land of iron depend on the user's unarmored speed and agility to support their combat style, the Will of Iron is quite different. The school boasts the longevity of their students as they must learn to function in full armor and likewise learn to defeat those who wear armor and break through defenses to get a powerful killing stroke.
β°β°β° Notes:
β’
β°β°β° Style Creation Credits:
β’ Kondo Kaicho
β’ Wolfe Whitehorn
Stage One
β° Swift Deflection | Rank X | Simple
The user moves toward the opponent, parrying a physical attack upward with their blade in hand. When this blade is deflected, the user take's the hilt of their sword and smashes it into the body of the opponent. This sends the target flying back five feet per rank of the technique. In order to execute this technique, it must be executed one rank above the rank of the technique being countered.
β° Soaring Flight | Rank D | Complex
This attack is initiated from a stance in which the user's blade is held with the tip towards the foe and the non-dominant hand supporting the back of the blade near the tip. The user slashes upward as they leap into the air, propelling themselves with chakra up to fifteen feet. Opponents unguarded are carried skyward with this slash as though stuck to the blade.
Stage Two
β° Falling Star | Rank D | Simple
Used most often in combination with Soaring Flight. The user descends upon an opponent, slashing at their head or shoulder. If used in combination with Soaring Flight, the user's speed is increased by [1].
β° Turning Swallow Cut | Rank D | Complex
Utilizing chakra to stimulate the nervous system, this cut is reputedly so quick and precise that it can strike down a bird in mid-flight. It is a downward strike the flicked back up into an upward strike.
β° Blade Attunement | Rank D | Complex
The user coats their blade in chakra, causing it to crackle and glow with their chakra color. This allows the user to easily cut through their opposition, retaining a [1] point strength increase for the duration of this attack. This technique can be sustained by paying the cost of the technique every post, however activations are not consumed afterward. In addition, this technique adds the elemental affinity of the user's chakra to complex and spiritual attacks.
β° Double Lightning | Rank D | Complex
The user applies a transformation technique to their scabbard and sword, making one appear as the other just before striking the opponent. As the opponent believes they are defending against the bladed attack, they are in reality guarding from the harmless sheath of the sword while the blade cleaves into them. In order to defend against this technique, the user must block the real blade of the sword.
Stage Three
β° Form Manipulation | Rank C | Complex
Truly skilled practitioners learn to shape the chakra around their weapon into different shapes. From a lance to a broadsword, anything is possible. However, while anything may be possible some forms will of course be difficult to maintain, requiring extra chakra expenditure. For every dimensional five feet after the first, the jutsu will require an extra D Rank amount of chakra. This technique has an upkeep of 5 chakra per post after being used.
β° Drawing Cut | Rank C | Simple
The user unsheathes their sword, slashes and returns their weapon in one swift, unseen motion. Doing so consumes a Shushin activation. This technique cannot be seen by those with a [2] point or more difference in agility against the user's speed. Those with a [1] point difference are able to see this attack and those with equal or higher agility to the user's speed are able to easily see and defend from this attack. This technique can only be used once per fight.
β° Thunder Strike | Rank C | Simple
Utilizing the Drawing Cut technique, the student of Tetsu Ishi no Ryu then follows up with a strike from his scabbard that is imbued with their chakra. This follow up attack's speed is increased by [1].
β° Pressure Wave | Rank C | Complex
When swinging your weapon, you can create a crescent shaped chakra wave, five feet wide by one foot long, that can travel up to about 100ft before dissipating. This crescent wave is roughly five feet in length.
Stage Four
β° Helmet Splitter | Rank B | Complex
This technique is a vertical downward slash designed to cleave bodies in half but gained it's name from it's innate ability to shatter armor pieces. When interacting with armor, this technique is treated as spiritual and when meeting armor that fails to resist completely, will cut into the target.
β° Two As One | Rank B | Complex
The user imbues their blade with chakra, creating a chakra blade that follows the path of the original blade. When impacting an opponent's defenses, the user is deducted an additional B rank amount of chakra automatically as the chakra blade makes a secondary impact, breaking through defenses that would normally clash with the B Rank technique and defend itself. For the defenses to be broken, the defensive technique must have less chakra than the combination of two B Rank attack's cost.
Stage Five
β° Drying Pole | Rank X | Complex
The user imbues their blade with chakra, creating an extension of the blade as they perform a thrusting attack. This chakra blade extension expands the blade's length 5 feet per rank of the technique and carries a [1] point boost to speed per rank of the technique.
β° Many as One | Rank A | Complex
The user imbues their blade with chakra, creating a chakra blade that follows the path of the original blade. Unlike it's earlier variation, Many for One was not designed to break through defenses but rather to overwhelm the opponent with a volley of slashes. The opponent lashes out, creating eight slashes that center upon the opponent. The technique gains an additional [2] point increase in speed upon execution.
Stage Six
β° Divine Wind Cutter | Rank S | Complex
The user floods their sword with chakra, causing it to glow with their chakra color. The user slashes at the opponent, sending chakra outward in the form of three separate crescent shapes. These shapes have the ability to tear through defenses as though they were one rank lower, making it a force of terrifying power. Additionally, this technique is treated as spiritual when interacting with barrier, shield and armor techniques.
β° Void Wind Cutter | Rank S+ | Complex
The user imbues their blade with chakra, focusing their attack for a single post. As they are focusing, objects within the area begin to act as though a strong wind is pulling them towards the user's blade. Upon release, the user fires a twenty foot cresent blade at the target. This blade is black in color and draws everything within twenty five feet of it into it as it travels. In order to resist this technique's pull, the user must pay the rank of the technique's chakra to stand their ground. Those caught directly in it's path are mortally wounded. Structures impacted are simply cleaved in half.
