Silas and Sasha both began to move quickly down the secret passage to the next hall. With the foot technique and their own base speed they were able to run pretty quickly, which they would need to do so. When they got there, the scene was indeed quite the battle, especially with what looked like some large demon dog trapped inside of some cage made of bone, the cage for some reason slashing at the dog trapped inside. None of that seemed to matter though as Silas focused his attention, and energy, on performing a high powered Daichizan on the Blank Mage. As he ran, he tried to gather energy through his breathing, to try and power up his attack. --- Energy Flow: 1 (Critical!) --- Perhaps it was Silas' determination to fight, or just his own natural mental focus. But he was able to gather and flow the energy through him with ease with the Breathing Technique. As he focused to make it stronger, he would make the energy flow through him with more power and speed with each breath, having to make the breaths a bit stronger. It was clearly taking a toll on his MP, making it drain faster, but he would be able to explicitly feel more and more power moving through his entire body with each strengthened breath. By the time he got there, the power flowing strengthened every aspect of his body, making him stronger and faster, moreso than he was before. It was simply a way to strengthen his slashes, but he felt physically augmented by whatever was happening. This allowed him to charge forward even more quickly to attempt his high powered slash at the Blank Mage, able to close the distance a bit more quickly than normal to make the distance factor not matter as much. The attack was so fast though, that instead of trying to take advantage of the distance to dodge, he raised up his guard instead by raising up his arms. --- Daichizan: 8 - 39 Ban Family Sword Technique - 12 Skill Bonus = -42 (Max Damage!) Damage Dealt: 153 --- The powered blade seemed to slam into his arms, hitting some sort of tangible wall. However, the wall was so flimsily made that it was more for just slowing the blade slightly, managing to stop a tiny bit of the incredibly powerful slash to lower the damage, the man letting out a loud cry as the blade still managed to slash across his torso as the power of the slash meant to cut earth broke through his guard. A large, bloody gash was visible across his torso now, the man full of wounds since, unlike the Gamers, their opponent was a normal human who could be wounded. He only had a tenth of his HP left. He was pretty bad off, but still seemed quite confident for some reason, as well as a bit pissed off. From that display of power though, Silas was awarded with an array of windows. Three of them stating that the Daichizan, Breathing Technique, and Inner Ki Technique Skills all had gone up in level by 1. [hider=Critical] Your expertise in channeling energy through breathing to further strengthen yourself has made your concentration greater. +1 Focus [/hider] [hider=Skill Get] A Skill has been created through a Special Action. Through flowing and gathering more energy into yourself through the Breathing Technique, which is the next stage of the breathing technique, the ability to better employ this new technique, Ban Family Breath Flow Technique, has been created. [/hider] [hider=Ban Family Breath Flow Technique] Ban Family Breath Flow Technique (Level 1: 0/100 XP) (Active: 50 + 50 MP/Minute): The next stage of the breathing technique. This powerful form of breathing allows a person to focus and flow energy through their body more quickly to gather it and strengthen the body itself. This technique can only be used while the Breathing Technique is active as it augments the breathing technique. While this Skill is active, your STR and DEX are both increased by 5. Also the damage of your physical attacks is increased by a % amount equal to 50% of your Focus Score. You can continue to build up the flow of your breathing to further increase your strength. By spending an additional X MP, a max amount equal to your Focus Score, every five seconds will further augment your strength by 25% of the MP you spend. You can do this for a max of an additional 25 seconds. The problem with this is that its a double edged sword. As you build up more energy, you speed and focus the flow of your breathing more. If this flow is disrupted through a powerful hit or anything else, the breath in your body will momentarily cease its flow in an abrupt, dangerous way that will leave you Stunned for a few seconds. Note that the strength buffs from the additional augmentation is spent after a single attack is made, regardless of whether or not it hits. To Level: Activate this Skill. Perform an Attack while its Active. Use the additional augmentation. Attack while the additional augmentation is active.[/hider]