Chapter 240: An Exquisite Hand!
"Most Conceptual-type abilities are developed by the Blazers themselves."
"The same or similar abilities will also develop into completely different abilities in the hands of different people, this point is just like the Nature Control-type of mine and Shizuku's."
"However, Luke, your 'Starlight' is a unique ability, right?"
"It is said that the same or similar abilities have not yet been discovered worldwide."
Stella had clearly used her identity as a princess to look up Luke's detailed information, otherwise she wouldn't be so certain that 'Starlight' was his unique ability.
Although Luke's true ability was 'Sever/Cut', as of right now, Luke did not use this ability often.
Therefore, the special effect-heavy Prana had instead become his publicly recognized ability.
Luke didn't have any intention to explain either; after all, if the 'Sever' ability was exposed, Prana would be impossible to explain.
"To be honest, I also don't know how to understand this ability of 'Starlight'."
Luke first rubbed his forehead and organized his words before he opened his mouth to say.
"What I personally use more often is as a propulsive force to accelerate, right?"
"But in reality, the effective range of this ability is very wide. I don't quite understand the specific reasons either; in short, it can do all matters big and small."
"Ah, additionally, the storage ability that Stella and Ikki have seen is an extension of it."
This last sentence was of course a lie; no matter what, something like spatial items that this world could not understand could not be casually spoken out loud.
"Ara, a spatial ability, it's somewhat similar to mine~"
Perhaps to further dispel Luke's suspicions, or wanting to dig deeper into Luke's abilities from the side, Arisuin continued following Luke's words.
"Although the ability of my Device 'Dark Hermit' is manipulating 'shadows', it has also developed Spatial-type abilities."
While speaking, Arisuin used his hand to shield and drew a circle on the table.
Following his movements, a pitch-black and profound 'shadow' appeared on the table, its trembling surface giving off the feeling of a pool of water.
"'Shadow Walk', this is my Noble Art, it can carry out spatial movement."
"How about it, not bad right?"
"It's a pity that under conditions with ample light, if there are no obstructions, it's impossible to create shadows, and it becomes useless like that."
It was everyone else's first time seeing Arisuin's ability, so they all looked at this pitch-black water pool with some curiosity.
Stella reached out to poke the water pool, then turned her head to ask Luke:
"Luke, can you also do spatial movement like this?"
"No, my abilities related to space are temporarily only in the aspect of storage."
Luke similarly observed Arisuin's shadow carefully.
An ability to manipulate shadows was quite interesting.
"Arisuin-san, can your shadow..."
"Call me Alice~!"
As soon as Luke's words came out, they were interrupted by Arisuin.
He stared at Luke, somewhat puffing out his cheeks, and said:
"We are already friends, so just calling me Alice is fine, and don't add san."
"A~li~ce~!"
Arisuin's performance made Luke unconsciously shiver.
To be honest, facing a unique creature like Arisuin, even he couldn't quite handle it.
Scratching his head awkwardly, Luke forced himself to speak.
"A-Alice...?"
"Un, un, what is it~?"
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"..."
After being silent for a few seconds, Luke managed to suppress the churning emotions in his heart with great difficulty before continuing to ask:
"Can your shadows be materialized into physical entities to be manipulated?"
This was the first thing Luke thought of the moment he saw Arisuin's ability; after all, people with shadows as their abilities, although not too many in various works, were not rare either.
The most common one was the ability to manipulate shadows as physical entities.
"Hmm... I've never thought about this aspect..."
"I think I shouldn't be able to do it for now; I also haven't carried out practice and development in this aspect."
"But you really managed to think of such an interesting development direction. If there's a chance I will give it a try, so thank you in advance~"
Arisuin's heart at this moment was extremely shocked, but not because of the issue of ability development.
He indeed hadn't thought about the issue of materializing shadows, but whether or not it could succeed was still uncertain.
Moreover, as an elite assassin of the Rebellion, Arisuin naturally had his own systematic development directions, and wouldn't really be excited over a new ability development direction like a student.
What truly shocked him was the more essential reason why Luke proposed this development direction.
"T-Then Luke, are you asking this because you can manifest 'Starlight' into a physical entity?"
Arisuin's question attracted the attention of the others.
Speaking of starlight, an average person's first association would be stars, then since it can be manifested... stars... manifested...
?!?!
As their thoughts wandered, Stella and the others all looked at Luke with terrified gazes.
Their expressions let Luke know what they were all filling their brains with.
In order to prevent the inexplicable misunderstanding from just now from occurring, Luke took a step ahead this time and said:
"I say, the imaginations of you guys are too wild; you don't really think I can recreate concepts like stars or celestial bodies, do you?"
"B-B-But isn't your title 'Falling Star'?"
"...Please put the focus on 'Sword Emperor', thank you!"
Luke looked expressionlessly at the somewhat terrified Stella.
He had to say that Her Highness the Princess's thought process was truly bizarre.
"Ikki's younger sister Shizuku is also called the 'Deep Sea Witch', so can she recreate the ocean?"
"I can indeed do physical manifestation, but it's only limited to 'Starlight'."
Saying so, the blue starlight in Luke's hand gradually gathered into a hand.
This hand composed of Prana moved over to the plate, picked up a crepe, and handed it to Luke.
"This kind is the method I use most often."
"Usually, it's still very convenient to use for closing doors or fetching things."
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Stella and the other three looked speechlessly at this hand emitting a blue light.
Even the experienced and knowledgeable Arisuin was seeing for the first time someone actually developing their ability so meticulously in daily life.
It wasn't that there were no other Blazers who did this, but others at most were just looking for convenience.
But Luke...
The few of them looked at the exquisite little hand floating in the air, with even joints and nails, not knowing where to begin retorting.
Unlike a pure Prana creation and magical creation, this hand was actually a product of Seisenjutsu.
For Seisenjutsu, the finished product of the jutsu is already decided before use, and there is no need to waste extra effort when using it.
This Seisenjutsu wasn't created by Luke; he was just using it according to the method Fan Xinglu taught him, which was why it was so meticulous.
...
Just when Luke and the others were happily chatting while eating.
In a place they couldn't see, a squad of masked men armed with firearms quietly entered the shopping mall from the side door.
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