Magic Path: Five Dragon Style
Pre-requisites: Any 5 Elemental Dragon Styles (Basic)
Can fuse into:
Concordant Dragon Style (Fusion w/ Celestial Body Magic)
Five Dragon King Style (Fusion w/ Supreme Emission)
Magic Type: Hereditary
<<Description>>
The Five Dragon Style is a Draconic Magic Path. As the title suggests, the Five Dragon Style is created from combining five of the nine Elemental Dragon Styles. This can be done through an Elemental Dragon Monk absorbing, or accepting the energies of the other four Elemental Dragon Monks, or alternatively four sources of elemental power.
With this style, the user can control their five Elemental Magicks in a single, unified form, letting them fluidly manipulate multiple of their elements at once, and even uniting them into a single, combined force. In exchange for this unimaginable power, the core strengths possessed by each individual Elemental Style will be diluted, so each the elements individually do not achieve their fullest potential. Nonetheless, this is a miniscule price to pay, as long as the user keeps training. With sufficient growth, the user's ability and aptitude rises far above all of their individual capabilities.
The five Elemental Dragon Styles used are not any specific five, and any selected five can work for this Style. It is unknown why exactly five Elemental Dragon Styles are needed to utilise this style. However, there have been clear showings that any one more or one less Elemental Dragon Style within this combination, and the style falls apart, and will be completely unable to function. It is theorised by some that the ancient notion that there were originally only five "true elements" in the past, might be connected to five being the perfect number.
The Five Dragon Style needs no weapons to accompany it, and practitioners can utilise their style barehanded. However, some practitioners do accompany the Five Dragon Style with a spear or sword.
<<Levels>>
<Basic Form (Levels 1 to 5)>
Level 1: Five Dragon's Scales
The user's body is encased in polychromatic scales of five colours. These scales grant high levels of defense and toughness, even compared to other dragon's scales.
Level 2: Five Dragon's Claws
A basic melee attack of the Five Dragon Style. The user infuses their five elemental ki into their fingertips, one element for one fingertip, before delivering a powerful claw strike to the enemy. The attack is sharp enough to pierce through weaker armors and tear flesh and bone, and also further debilitates opponents with five elemental effects at once.
Level 3: Five Dragon's Force
A basic ranged attack of the Five Dragon Style. Channeling the five elemental ki into their lungs, the user expels a powerful burst of elementally-charged Dragon's Breath. This breath is a few times more corrosive than a standard Dragon's Breath.
Level 4: Five Dragon's Blocking Technique
A defensive technique, and the Five Dragon Style's own version of the Ryu technique. The user focuses their elemental ki into a specific area, toughening it and allowing the reinforced area to shrug off most blows, physical and magical.
Level 5: Five Dragon's Ingenuity
A passive skill of the Five Dragon Style. Through a mix of their physiology, and learning to minimise their expenditure of stamina, the user's stamina and endurance becomes greatly improved. They will barely feel fatigue, no matter how prolonged the battle is, or how injured they are.
<Specialisation Form (Levels 6 to 10)>
Level 6: Five Dragon's Fortitude
An evolution to the Five Dragon's Scales. The user's scales further develop absorptive properties, letting them soak up some impact and damage from opponents' physical and energy-based attacks.
Level 7: Five Dragon's Fist
An advanced melee attack in the Five Dragon Style. Condensing their five elemental ki into a single fist, the user then releases a strike infused with glowing white energy. This punch harms not only on a physical level, but spiritual level as well, irreversibly fracturing the opponent's very soul with their strikes.
Level 8: Five Dragon's Shrouding
A second advanced melee attack in the Five Dragon Style. The user conjures five ethereal dragons, each of them made of one of their elements. They possess unimaginable firepower, being able to easily rip their targets apart.
Level 9: Five Dragon's Retribution
A counter-technique of the Five Dragon Style, and evolution to the Five Dragon's Blocking Technique. The user channels their five elemental Ki to divert an attack, before fluidly channeling said Ki to another limb for a close-range counterattack.
Level 10: Five Dragon's Wrath
A power-up mode. The user dwells in their rage, temporarily raising their attack power, defense and speed to their limits. However, this heavily drains the user's stamina, even through their <Ingenuity> ability.
<Awakened Form (Levels 11-15)>
Level 11: Five Dragon's Enlightenment
The second evolution to Five Dragon's Fortitude. The user's draconic vitality grants them a potent healing factor, allowing them to heal deep wounds as long as they maintain the vigour of battle. In addition, all damage they take from any source is halved.
Level 12: Five Dragon's Form
A combination of the Five Dragon's Claws and Fist. The user swiftly releases a quick combination of claw and fist strikes, pummeling the enemy with an overwhelming barrage of blows. However, this is quite taxing on the user's stamina, without the mastery of <Ingenuity>.
Level 13: Five Dragon's Destruction
An evolution to the Five Dragon's Shroud technique. The conjured five Dragons are more destructive than before, being able to absorb ambient energy to sustain their own forms.
Level 14: Five Dragon's Cloak
A combination of Five Dragon's Shrouding and Blocking Technique. The user commands their five Dragons to encircle their body, forming a cloak that greatly protects them from attacks.
Level 15: Five Dragon's Divine Fire Cage
A sealing technique of the Five Dragon Style, that uses principles of Five Dragon's Shrouding. The user commands their five dragons to encircle an opponent, before condensing into a totem cage that imprisons them. This cage has the properties of the five dragons' elements, giving them a variety of effects depending on the Elemental Styles utilised.
<Super Awakened Form (Levels 16 to 20)>
Level 16: Five Dragon's Invulnerability
The third evolution to Five Dragon's Enlightenment. The user gains heightened resistance to elemental attacks, more specifically those that use any of the five elements from the user's own style. For example, if the user combines the Air, Earth, Fire, Shadow and Water Dragon Styles for their Five Dragon Style, then they will likewise gain enhanced resistance against Air, Earth, Fire, Shadow and Water-based attacks.
Level 17: Five Dragon's Pentacle
The user gathers their five elemental ki into one hand, creating a glowing pentacle sign on their palm, before launching a palm strike to their opponent with said hand. Upon contact, a projection of the pentacle sprouts from the opponent's back, while the opponent's insides are completely obliterated.
Level 18: Five Dragon's Fight as One
An evolution to the Five Dragon's Shroud technique. The user combines their five projected dragons into a single, white dragon. This fused dragon possesses far more power than any single projected dragon, and can tear through landmasses with ease.
Level 19: Five Dragon's Devil Purge
A potent hybrid technique in the Five Dragon Style. The user shrouds themselves in five-fold layers of ki, causing their power and protection to likewise increase five-fold.
Level 20: Five Dragon's Fury
The ultimate technique of the Five Dragon Style, and the evolution to Five Dragon's Wrath. The user's rage reaches its limits, causing their body to endlessly gather and emit elemental ki, turning them into radiant beings that destroy the terrain they stand on with their mere presence. All of the user's attacks are transcendentally more powerful than before, but they are more often than not only fighting in a blind rage, or by pure instinct. The user can only go out of this form when their rage and stamina is fully exhausted.
Magic References: Exalted, World Anvil (Enlightened), Rise of Humanity, Yu-Gi-Oh!, Bleach, Naruto Fanon, Tales of Herding Gods
Character Design Reference: Ibuki-Douji
