Offensive Martial Arts

• [Slashing Strike] (Climb, Hamsuke), [Greater Slash Strike] (the Extra Seat); [Blade Slash] is a powerful slash that channels energy into the blade; the Web novel's "Slash" was split into [Slashing Strike] and [Blade Slash] in the light novels
• [Strong Strike] (Gagaran, Go Gin, Remedios), [Steeled Arm Strike] (Hekkeran, the Extra Seat), [Grand Power Strike] (Buser), [Power Claw] (Vijar)
• [Void Cutter] (Erya), [Double Air Slash] (the Extra Seat): send slashes flying, though such martial arts are weaker than direct strikes
• [Dragon Fang Thrust]: a two-hit thrust that adds elemental damage, developed by Parpatra from [Piercing Strike]; its variants are [Piercing Blue Dragon Tusk] (lightning) and [Piercing White Dragon Tusk] (ice) (Vol. 7)
• [Shukuchi] can only glide forward, while Erya's [Shukuchi Kai] moves in any direction (Vol. 7); [Instant Counter] forcibly returns a body thrown off balance by an attack to its stance before the attack (Gazef, the Extra Seat)
• [Focus Battle Aura] (Gazef) gives a weapon the effect of a magic weapon; Buser has [Shield Bash] and a "Weapon Break" martial art that damages weapons directly (Vol. 12)
• Gazef's [Fourfold Slash of Light] and [Sixfold Slash of Light], and Brain's [Instantaneous Flash], [God Flash], and [Field], are all original martial arts; Gazef also has "the strongest martial art of any individual" (developed by Vesture, who was too old to master it)

Notes

In the Web novel, martial arts are called "battle skills" and written in katakana, such as the [Eyes in the Back] and [Whirlwind] that Zaryusu learned for fighting groups; the light novels did not adopt them.

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• Gagaran
• Erya Uzruth
• Antilene Heran Fouche (Zesshi Zetsumei)
• Gazef Stronoff
• Brain Unglaus
• Buser
• Hamsuke

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