big ass skill

Skill:
Name of Skill: 天沼矛 - Ame-no-Nuhoko
Starting Rank: B
Description: Widely unknown to the world and sought to be sealed and contained by any means, it is an inhumane sorcery trait that does not abide by the laws that govern life and death. Only through means of direct physical contact can it even take effect, though through it, Koujaku can directly alter and destroy the concept of one's life. Ame-no-Nuhoko, the bejeweled divine spear the Izanagi and Izanami had used to create the 'first lands' or the 'origin of Earth,' this is magecraft is named after it, as it is akin to understanding one's beginnings and altering them. The magecraft itself seems to have ties to Akasha, but because Akasha itself is a compilation of records that is not understandable, simply a swirl of everlasting information, not even a mastered practicioner of magecraft can truly understand the full effects of it. However, from what one can understand, it applies the Principle of Casuality and the laws of cause and effect to the very concept of life and death. By removing the 'cause,' the effect can no longer happen, or, instead by triggering the cause, an effect will definitely happen. It bypasses defenses and destroys the 'origin of one's being', and thus once the beginning ceases to exist, so does the rest of them. It is almost like the erasure of one's soul from the Earthly realm. However due to the peculiar nature of it, the magecraft only really contains potent effects against those who have derailed their path in life. For example, a Dead Apostle is a human who lost their humanity for immortality and became a vampire. Against such, the effect is apt and ample as there is a detectable distortion in their soul's timeline, and thus destroying the very existence of the Dead Apostle, without even affecting the humane part of the soul. Due to the inhumane practice of soul annihilation, the Church forbades its usage on most occassions and seals Koujaku's hands behind special gloves that weaken the effect.

Koujaku is not allowed to make use of this magecraft without meeting at least three of a set amount of criteria, OR one specific trigger.

1) They are no longer human, or were never human to begin with.
2) They no longer possess a will of their own
3) They do not possess perfected sentience (the ability to form emotions and a psyche)
4) They have provoked hostility and are it is purely in self defense. This one counts as two triggers for the criteria that needs to be met.
5) They are no longer alive, and/or are capable of reincarnating.

-) They threaten the greater good, the will of Earth and humanity to an extent that it requires direct and immediate intervention. This will trigger in threads that someone has caused to become Open and Death Enabled due to disturbing or destruction of the peace and therefore becoming a threat to humanity. This trigger alone alots the usage of the magecraft.

The greatest penalty this effect brings about is the backlash and exhaustion its usage brings about. The process, for one, is not immediate. It requires several moments of contact so that the raw ether may interact with the host's (soul, not body) timeline, find its beginning (origin point) and destroy it. This becomes significantly quicker and easier on things that are no longer living, as their origin point generally appears as a distortion, not a swirl of undefined information. But, like any magecraft, it can be resisted to a degree. Those who possess A Rank MAN are able to completely resist its effects and slow down the process by 80%. Those with B will halve the speed of the process to 50% of its original speed, however all others will be directly and automatically subject to a single post cycle of time to escape before being eviscerated from the timeline. Dead Apostles and homonculii are doubly susceptible to the effect and thus will not gain any resistances to the magecraft unless they are signifcantly older or more powerful than much of time itself, specifically speaking, Dead Apostle ancestors. However, the more reincarnations they have undergone, the more powerful the effect of the origin destruction is in multiplicative amounts due to having more access points and thus, quicker results.