The Martial Unity

Leonel, who had still been thinking about the best method to get out of here, blinked and looked over toward Aina. He caught the hefty black book in the air, surprised by its weight. Just what could make a seemingly normal leather bound book so heavy?

"I can't understand what's written in it." Aina said. "But I do feel a sense of familiarity from the diagrams. They feel like Force Art."

Leonel's brow raised. "Force Art, are those different from Force techniques?"

"Force Art are a type of Force technique, so not really…" Aina explained lightly.

Seeing that she didn't seem to be in a mood to talk, Leonel didn't ask more questions despite having them. He just made the assumption that what separated these Arts from normal techniques were these diagrams Aina mentioned.

Leonel had seen diagrams in [Dimensional Cleanse], but they were of the human body, nothing like the diagrams Aina was speaking of now.

Aina struggled a bit seeing that Leonel was having trouble getting anything out of what she was saying, so she couldn't help but say a bit more.

"Force techniques are split into internal and external. Your [Call of the Wind] is an internal technique. Force Arts are external techniques. The difference is that one originates from the body before it can be projected out while the latter can be formed outside of the body. Force Arts are rarer and more difficult to learn and control… I don't know why something like them would appear here, it doesn't make sense."

Leonel couldn't help but smile when Aina continued to explain unprompted. He could tell that she wanted to keep her distance from him, so he hadn't pressed her in the last several weeks.

quite fond of. She would often get that very same guilty look on her face whenever she felt she was being

mumbled. "I would have thought that [Call of the Wind] was an external technique due to its original nature, but I guess this is a case of instincts

around this, he knew that this wasn't the time for this. There were far more pressing questions, even aside from how they would get out of this place. Namely… just who

from their future, but they also had access to Arts which even Aina spoke of as

who was now aware that the future could apparently change matters of the

had changed history so drastically? Was it maybe instead that history was always this way? After all, even the Mayan Priest had a Force weapon that he had no business having. Or, was

Leonel knew was that this was big. Bigger than maybe his current self

book. Every second here counted, and if he was correct, it actually counted for ten times what it should. There was no time to waste, or else

[Shadow Manifestation]

but a technique he

It required etching the Art into one's skin with deep gashes

had seen multiple shadow figures. Each of

her to frown. At first, Leonel thought she was just grossed out by the methods,

said faintly. "… From what you describe, this Pierre should have been much weaker. But, his abilities were far more wide ranging than what that

that said more about her abilities than it did about Pierre's. At the very least,

more than one Art and he

for a moment before

to fall under the same umbrella and were all related to the shadows. In addition, external Arts that fall under the Body Art category like this are