Aura Training - Roran

Roran furrowed his brow, he at least was able to understand SOME of the aura techniques, because maybe just because he was a Metahuman and it just came to him naturally, but still he sighed raising his hand a bit. "I missed the last lesson on aura techniques and no one really taught me, but I'm going to give it a try." Reaching back he drew his weapon, the butcher's knife as he waved it around a bit time. [1]

Now initially, he wanted to aim his weapon at Himmothy and try to blow his head off, but he needed to be...'nice' this time around especially since this would help him with some range issues that's not reliant on him actually reaching his opponent in melee range, still it was a rather unique technique, maybe one that would help him. Now they said it was based on intent right? [2]

If it was based off that he raised his hand up, slowly attempting to wrap his hand around the blade, for those who were around him, his intent was malice, murder, those kind of thoughts that would wrap around his Murderer's Blade. With a small breath in then out a crimson aura would slowly coat his blade until it was drenched in it, enclosing around it like a vice before he'd aim the weapon towards the blade. [3]

He furrowed his brow, watching the weapon pulse within his aura. He sighed a bit watching the weapon almost come to life with his magical power being the life-line for this technique, still whatever the case as he pushed aside, idle thoughts and all after all as he pooled in more mana to fully seep into his butcher's knife at least until he was satisfied with the results he was perusing. [4]

"This should be good enough." He muttered a bit before he aimed the aura infused blade forward, towards something else entirely. "Aura Sunder." He stated releasing the technique outward as he performed a downward slash, a surge of magic power shot out potentially exploding one of the many scattered around boxes laid out before them. [5]

Roran felt like they did not need to shout for this one to work, right? Whatever the case was they were already at the second lesson, which was [Aura Armament], so it was more useful for him in this situation given, well, he did need the lesson and it seemed like it was for parrying which was something he needed to do as a Swordsman, and potentially the only swordsman within Kraven. [6]

His feelings aside, he focused on his intent to raising his aura usage through his arms, since he normally wielded his Murderer's Blade in two hands, so he had to focus on separating the aura usage to two arms, to help him react better, at least that's how he viewed the technique. With that in mind he sighed, rolling his shoulders a bit as he looked over at his weapon, this would be different than 'Aura Sunder', it was something made for him it seemed, as it was more of a supplementary ability. [7]

Roran sighed, pushing a hand through his hair as he slowly started to gather and bide the magical energy around his arms, enough to were it would permeate through his weapon and arms, at first nothing happened, then he realized that potentially, he wasn't floating enough magic power into his limbs, or rather he was doing it incorrectly. He needed to not just reinforce his arms with this technique, but also his weapon as well. Thankfully, he was a Metahuman, aura manipulation just came natural to him as were breathing. [8]

He took a breath and sighed, at least when it came to this, as he slowly flowed his aura through his mana circuits, like he did with his Icy Spirit Flames, he just needed to make sure the aura flowed to his weapon as well, at least for the sake of learning this [Aura Armament] weapon. Unlike the first technique, he could feel the aura hardening and strengthening his arms and weapon, at least letting him be more reactionary to the various attacks he needed to parry. [9]

Releasing a breath he rolled his shoulders, that was somewhat easier, or rather his understanding made him progress it easier, but what was him. He released a breath as he closed his eyes a bit, thinking about the application of the [Aura Armament] technique. It wasn't like he had any real complaints about it, he was just content to learn something. [10]

Now then, for the final least, that being [Aura Hide], now to him, that seemed like it was more of a stealth-like technique, and when he realized it wasn't that at all he had to change gears, like a lot really, because he knew he was not a stealthy person. Whatever the case was he at least knew what to expect from the technique, maybe, the name was throwing him off. [11]

From what he was...told, he had to permeate his body with aura, from how it was explained he was able to take his more rigid body and infuse his aura into his muscles, it was a means to blocking damage with his aura, but he could already do that, and with his refined aura affinity, he could easily do so, but he still needed to learn this ability. [12]

He figured that training this technique would require some pain, so he raised a brow, looking at his Murderer's Blade before he had a rather twisted idea. He just needed to test out and make sure he felt some sort of pain, right? Simple, he released a small breath, steeling his mind as he gathered his thoughts together while also gathering the required mana into his body. [13]

With a swift and precise motion he sliced into his body where he placed the mana in. He released a pained grunt, but he simply kept going. In fact he was...laughing slightly. It was just a small amount of pain, but he knew that he could endure it, in fact he had to, as his twisted mind allowed him to go through the motion of this over and over again, until he got it right. It came to a point that he was no longer wincing in pain of the failures, he just let it fester as he kept a twisted expression on his face.[14]

He lifted the weapon up once again before he was able to properly block and lower the incoming damages to his body. But he was fine, he was filled with lacerations, and bleeding in the places where he failed the properly use [Aura Hide] at least until now. "I did it.~" He mused before he released a small cackle before he joined the others. [15]