Chapter 215 Shapeless (1/2)

Chapter 215 Shapeless

Observing the motions of two shadows that followed Nephis, Sunny was finally able to understand the foundation of the elusive shadow style

Before, he only sensed a hint of its essence He knew that just like the shadow, the hidden battle art was insidious, shapeless, and everchanging But this here lay the problem: a battle style was, by definition, a structured framework of patterns and principles, a doctrine that dictated how one should act to defeat an enemy

That doctrine was used as a foundation and expanded into a variety of specificdidn't have a shape and its for, how could it ever be stable and structured? Sunny had no idea how the concepts he felt were at the core of the shadow style could create so even remotely applicable to practice

Insidious, shapeless, everchanging What was he supposed to do with that?

But now, he understood The key to it all was so siuessed earlier? It was so obvious

The idea that tied everything together was as innate to the nature of shadows as formlessness and elusiveness

It was is that caht about shadows? That they lived in the dark and iht

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The foundation of the shadow style was indeed insidious, shapeless, and everchanging Its core concept was to steal that whichand use it to destroy them

To master that style, he had to learn how to behave like a shadow

Sunny stared at Nephis and Caster, but didn't see them His mind was consumed completely by the sudden revelation He had no tiht anymore

This style… this style had endless potential If he ed to master it, he would be able to counter any style or technique used against him, not to mention become an immensely unpredictable opponent

What could be more unpredictable than a formless shadow?

Of course, it was easier said than done To begin with, while the ability to imitate the enemy was incredibly powerful, it also deht from the user You couldn't imitate that which you didn't understand, after all

More importantly, this was just the foundation of the style He still had to expand it into the actual collection of specific principles and retrain hily

That was aa complete style from scratch could take a true battle master years, if not decades Sunny had not even scratched the surface of this aht It was a start Personal battle arts were not created in an instance, anyway It was a long and arduous process, with endless iterations co tempered by the crucible of combat

It's not like the style would be useless until it becaet it to the point where it could be applied in battle in one form or another That alone would treratulating himself However, the next moment, a deep scowl appeared on his face

'Uh… but how, exactly, am I supposed to do that?'

A while later, when the sun was already touching the western horizon, Sunny was sitting by hi at his shadow He was ht On his face, there was a troubled frown

When soered for a fewhim

To his surprise, it was Nephis

The leader of their cohort stood there for a bit, her graceful figure illu sun Then, she sat down near him

Sunny blinked

"Uh… hey Neph"

Npehis gave him a nod

"Hey, Sunny"