Chapter 57 Thinking About A New Technique

Unlike what the strike's name would tell, the spirit master didn't need to hit anything at all while charging up his sword.

In fact, the strike name was related to the use of one's spirit power. With moving the sword around in star shaped moves, one strike would be counted, and a little star shaped light would appear along the edge of the sword.

Twenty circles, twenty strikes, twenty little stars… Then the technique would be ready to get unleashed.

With the sword edge that was filled with twenty little stars, the spirit master could finally release his stars towards his target.

The attack didn't need the sword to hit the target, but the target shouldn't be too far from the spirit master. The distance should not be more than ten metres for the twenty stars to be unleashed.

Each star would fly around the target to cover up a distance of ten metres radius, before finally exploding.

The explosion of each star would push the target towards the next star exploding up. That meant the stars were going to detonate in a predetermined sequence.

That meant the target would have zero chance to get away from such a deadly attack once he got trapped within. And the deadliest fact about such an attack would be that the target didn't need to get into such a sequence from the start.

If the target got hit with the fifth or even the fifteenth star explosion, he'd end up entrapped in the subsequent star explosions.

The essence of such an attack relied upon the circles the spirit masters drew while charging his technique up.

William knew the movement of the sword before unleashing the attack wasn't going to be this simple. The direction these circles pointed at would be the locations where these stars would explode later on.

Some sort of general planning of the entire pattern should be done before starting to attack. And some sort of connection should be present between the twenty stars' exploding locations.

So the spirit master using such a technique had to be able to predict where his target would be and where his stars would end up at. It was a very tricky technique that required not only spirit power but much training and prediction.

William wanted to merge the essence of these three techniques together, do little tweaks here and there, and end up forming a totally new technique.

To devise a new technique, any spirit master had to start from the base of the technique he had in mind just like what William just did.

'The first technique depends on speed, the second depends on the number of strikes stacked before unleashing the strike, and the third one needs precision and prediction to control the direction of each sword move before releasing the attack…'

William kept repeating such phrase in his mind over and over until his mind started to formulate many ways where he could execute his desired technique.

He wanted to move his sword around in a semi-circular way to solve the problem of his small spirit power.

If he wanted to do it just like the initial techniques did, then things wouldn't end up quite well for him. Instead of using the circular moves of the Silent Moon technique, he'd use crescentic shaped moves.

This would save up much of his spirit power and time needed to execute such a technique of his.

Not to mention he needed to control the direction where these strikes would launch at, and at the same time he'd power such moves up using speed.

He didn't select the fast speed movement of the second dark element based strike. After all he was going to use lightning and light based moves in his technique, and these two were the true nemesis of darkness.

And that was also the reason why he didn't aim towards the silence and hard to counter nature of the second technique.

'Will they be compatible with each other…' as he thought deeper about how to execute his hypothesis, he couldn't help but frown at this problem.

Light and lightning were compatible with each other to some degree. However, darkness wasn't.

In William's mind, he thought of a technique that'd start up by the lightning element's high movement speed, then the darkness element part related to stacking up the strikes would kick in.

And while doing this, he needed to concentrate over the directions which he wanted his technique to get unleashed at in the end, which belonged to the light element technique.

If he managed to combine all this together, then the final form of such technique would be quite hard to evade and would result in a very scary powerful attack.

William couldn't tell if his final technique would end up by forming stars like the light based technique or would form a devastating hit like the lightning based technique.

'The darkness element will be used in the middle of the other two… If I can't stabilise the technique at such a stage, then it'll all fail…'

To William, failing wasn't an issue. He knew with each failure he'd learn something new. And eventually he'd end up succeeding.

But he started to get worried over the initial issue that because of it, he decided to devise such a new technique in the first place to solve; his spirit power consumption rate.

He knew by forcing too much spirit power at the technique, any conflict between incompatible elements would be solved. But that also meant the spirit power expenditure would skyrocket. And he didn't want that.

'I need to test these theories first…' After spending almost most of the day in thinking, William returned back to the initial problem he needed to solve.

He didn't want to test anything while being closely watched by others. Or else coming here in the first place would lose its meaning.

He knew the headmaster's residence was the most secure place in the entire academy. However, the headmaster himself was planning to spy on his doings.

And yet he still had a way to solve such a problem. But he needed little help to do it.