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Fenrir walked into the training grounds and unrolled some of his training scrolls. "This seems like a suitable place." He read through the instructions for the last stage of his Large Sword style, and summoned the giant sword "Gram" to help him finally master his first weapon style.

[1/4] Fenrir's ears detected a large waterfall nearby, so he walked to it and stood underneath its crashing current. By now, wielding the heavy sword was child's play. He could swing it just as quick and smoothly as a normal katana. He placed double doses of the electric overdose technique on his body in order to make the training go by faster.

[2/4] After adjusting to the heavy weight Fenrir started practings rapid slashes through the waterfall's powerful current. One time he slammed the blade against the fall wall and it sent a large crack up through the middle of it, causing even more water to come crashing down on his body. Fenrir took slow, deep breaths as he swung the gigantic blade around his body. It had become a part of him now, the very reflection of his power and soul.

[3/4] He continued to slash through the waterfall until it didn't phase him at all. The water drops glistened against his exposed body and jolts of static electricity danced around him. Just wielding the sword was starting to imbue with dangerous electric abilities.

[4/4] Fenrir swung the blade around his body again before he decided to test out the final powers the sword style had to offer. He thrusted his sword triumphantly into the sky, and stream of lightning exploded from its tip to dance around in the clouds above. They then quickly grew very dark, and as Fenrir hopped down from the waterfall, nine extremely powerful bolts of lightning crashed down around him, tearing the land asunder. Fenrir grinned and rested the large sword on top of his shoulders, now a true master of the Cloud weapon style.

((Stage 6 completed. Style Mastered!))

[1/9] Fenrir prepared himself for the final stage of the Shigure Souen. Once he completed it, he would have fully mastered the sword style. He quickly read through and studied the scroll he was given.

[2/9] Fenrir quickly grasped its concept. The last stage dealt with chakra preservation, and would allow him to use the natural elements around him to power his attacks instead of costing him chakra. For starters, he used his own sword to gather wind energy from the air around him.

[3/9] Next up on the plate was lightning. Fenrir had already mastered firing lightning bolts from the Cloud sword style, and so used that to power his attacks. However, with much practice Fenrir limited the amount of chakra required to perform this to its absolute minimum.

[4/9] Fenrir didn't know the fire element, so he used some lightning to catch a tree on fire to use as an example for practice. Channeling his chakra through his sword, Fenrir was able to gather the flames nearby, channeling them through the air until they covered his blade in fire. With that, Fenrir easily extinguished them and moved on to the next element.

[5/9] Earth was easy enough. Fenrir just stuck his sword in the ground to gather rocks either on or rotate around it. This would probably give his sword more force behind it.

[6/9] The last element was water. Fenrir walked onto the small river near the waterfall, walking across its surface to stop himself from falling in. From there it was a simple matter to gather the water around his blade. Yun had specifically made it with his water chakra, after all.

[7/9] Finally it was time to start mastering the final techniques of the Shigure Souen. The first was called the Duplicate Rain, and Fenrir quickly mastered it by sending summoning up a large tidal wave in front of him. It would look like the wave was meant to defend him from his opponent, but in reality he was using it as a mirror to trick the opponent from sensing him aproaching from behind.

[8/9] The next technique was the Clash of the Swallow. Fenrir whipped a surge of water around his body, creating large tidal waves all around, while at the same time charged his body with wind energy. From there he charged at an invisible opponent, creating a devastating clash in the process.

[9/9] The last technique was merely an extension of the last, the Swallows Beak. As before, he whipped up the water around him and charged himself with wind energy. Only this time, when he finally charged in for the clash, he unleashed a flury of blinding stabs with his sword. The move could very easily kill an unready opponent. With the sword style finally mastered, Fenrir sheathed his sword.

((Stage 6 of Shigure Souen learned. Shigure Souen Style mastered!))

[1/9] Fenrir immediately went on to start practicing the extension of the chidori, the chidori nagashi. His first try was a predictable failure. Extending chidori from just your hand to your entire body was certainly not going to be done so easily.

[2/9] Fenrir tried again. This time, he tried breaking down the current into small inclements. He would start out small, and then gradually build the current of chidori over his body. The first step was accomplished when he extended chidori from just his hand, to over his elbow.

[3/9] Then he gradually pushed it further along his body. In no time, he had successfully pushed it over his shoulder, making his entire right arm glow with the power of chidori as a loud chirping sound buzzed around him. The next step was going to be a bit more brutal though, as he would try to push it over hid head and chest. If he screwed it up, it was possible that his own electricity could fry his heart or brain.

[4/9] Fortunately though, Fenrir kept complete control over the current. The training of the shigure shouen had probably helped him in this area. Fenrir then tried to push the current to cover his other limbs, slowly making his body pulse with power.

[5/9] Finally, Fenrir pushed the current down his other arm and legs. He had perfectly performed the chidori nagashi over his entire body. That was not the end of his trials though, and just being able to put chidori over his body wouldn't serve him to its fullest potential. Fenrir unsheathed his katana and tried to push the current into it.

[6/9] This didn't work the first time. Like before, Fenrir would have to gradually build the current for his first time in order to get used to its flow. Slowly he pushed the current up passed the hilt of the katana.

[7/9] Keeping his focus undistracted and absolute, Fenrir moved the current farther up the blade of the sword. In this instance he was thankful for the katana he was using. Because of its water affinity used to power up lightning attacks, the current was probably adapting to other shapes faster than one would under normal circumstances.

[8/9] Finally Fenrir pushed the current to point where it covered the entire blade. With a quick slash Fenrir cut down a tree as if it were made out of butter. The current had almost been completely perfected. All that remained was the final test.

[9/9] Fenrir took a deep breath and instantly surged the current through his body and along his sword. Then he branched the current off of him to strike anything in the area around him. The ground itself tore apart as continuous beams of lightning ripped through it, their destruction mixed in with the chirping sound of the chidori.

((Chidori Nagashi learned))

Fenrir's clone returned and dispelled itself to return all of the information to the original. Fenrir then grinned and walked off towards the gates.
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Fenrir stared at Mizu in silence for a moment but after she didn't say anything he simply muttered, "Well, I guess it doesn't matter anyways." With that, Fenrir went back to finish learning the last stage of the Stolen Salvation.

[1/9] From what could gather out of it, the last stage was all about the destruction of pain within his body. He gave a depressing whine, as he knew what this meant, and summoned several shadow clones. From there, he stripped away all of his bone armor and fought against the clones.

[2/9] The attack level was fairly the same as the last training session. The only big difference here though, was that without the bone armor to protect him from blows, every hit Fenrir took sliced right through his body. He gradually built his body to ignore all pain he felt from these wounds. Any hesitation would just earn him another one.

[3/9] Fenrir continued to train under this pattern. He would take out a few of his shadow clones, but then something would go wrong and they'd manage to cut through him. After a few minutes Fenrir's sword style began to perfect itself in order to dodge these kinds of damaging blows.

[4/9] Still his skill increased. He wielded the Chihana with expert skill, chopping through clones of his own skill level as if they were nothing. Yet, every couple of blows another hit would make it in to slice Fenrir's body yet again. The blood Fenrir was losing was starting to be too much.

[5/9] Again Fenrir went through the training exercise, ignoring all pain and whining his body was telling him to stop. Another cut sliced across the side of Fenrir's neck. Another split second later and Fenrir would've killed himself. The blood seeping down his face blurred his vision, and still he pushed on.

[6/9] Fenrir's skill increased even more. He knew his body couldn't take any more damage. It was either become the best, or fall now! Fenrir blitzed through his clones, taking them all out with god-like speed.

[7/9] He defeated several of them, but then yet again a strike would always make it through. "Why?" Fenrir thought. "Why do I still get hit if the style is trying to teach me to defend myself?" It was then that Fenrir realized the flaw in his training strategy.

[8/9] The truth was that the style wasn't trying to teach him how to never be hit at all. Rather, it was meant to prepare him for when he did get hit. Throughout the entire training exercise Fenrir had pushed his body beyond the point of limit, so that it would not feel pain. Now he understood what that meant. Fenrir's body would lose entire limbs and still he wouldn't even blink. The style that took all pain away from Fenrir's body.

[9/9] "Funny" Fenrir muttered as his blood trickled along the ground. "The lifeless snow indeed. My body reacts to pain as a deadman does, not at all." Fenrir chuckled a bit to himself for a moment. Suddenly he whipped his sword around on himself and stabbed himself through his midsection. Fenrir coughed up blood and glanced down at his wound. It had just narrowly missed his vitals. If he had actually gone through with it, no enemy would've been able to dodge such an unthinkably suicidal tactic. Fenrir removed his sword and stuck it back in its sheathe before recollecting the scrolls and limping off to the hospital, trying not to die on the way there.

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(Stolen Salvation mastered!)