Chapter 1479 - Torment (1) (2/2)

Every tier of Soul Aid provided what its creator termed as 'Degrees of Freedom'. The higher tier you entered, the more degrees of freedom you'd gain. Since Dyon only had one part of this technique, he only had access to three tiers. But, within these three tiers, there were six degrees of freedom.

The first tier gave him access to weaken and strengthen. The second tier gave him slow and accelerate.

Weaken and strengthen were exactly what they sounded like. To a certain extent, Dyon was able to weaken a technique to a level he could use more comfortably, or strengthen one that had become too easy to use to the point of uselessness. As things stood now, he could control weaken to almost 500% and strengthen to about 5% for soul techniques. But, for non-soul related techniques, his degree of freedom was far weaker.

Essentially, Dyon can strengthen [Carnage] to 1.05 times its normal strength, or cut it to a fifth of its normal strength. However, although weaken lessened the energy requirements, unlike higher tiers of this technique, strengthening required more energy than usual.

Accelerate and slow were slightly more complex. Slow was another form of weakening, but in a very specific lane. It allowed a user to maintain the strength of a technique while lowering its energy use. But, the penalty suffered was the slowing of the technique. Simply put, one exchanged speed for lower energy usage.

Accelerate was another form of strengthening. In exchange for raising the energy requirement, one could increase the speed of a technique.

One could imagine how useful such abilities would be in battle, especially if layered. With Dyon's split minds technique, he could calculate countless things at once on the battlefield and use these degrees of freedom with the utmost control. The demonic beasts below stood not a single chance against his enraged onslaught.

Even weakened to a fifth of its normal abilities, carnage was essentially an instant kill for lower celestial beasts and humans alike. The best part was that although he only weakened it to a fifth, the energy requirements had dropped to a tenth!

When Dyon realized this, he immediately layered the acceleration degree of freedom onto [Carnage]. Now, not only was [Carnage] almost twice as fast as it was in its peak form, its energy requirement was still only a fifth!

The blaze of red and gold spears lit up the skies, filling the Demonic Gorge with a river of blood.