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| - Saimintoryu is powerful sword style that combines between Swordmanship and Hypnosis. The most common way of using this style is by slowly waving a sword back and forth to hypnotize opponents when they see it, it can be used in many ways and for many purposes. it can give opponents certain hallucinations and illusions such as multiple waving arms, it can also be used by waving the sword in a spinning motion to give opponents the illusion that the world is literally spinning around them, and it can be used to put weaker willed opponents to sleep as well. While the style is mostly used for optical illusions, some very skilled users can control other senses using the same method, such as the senses of hearing, pain, time perception and even the sense of balance. The main goal of the hypnosis and illusion however is to distract opponents, create openinigs and cut them down, this is why practitioners have to be very quick, fast and agile to be capapble of using this style, so they would be able to take full advantage of the shortest moment of distraction of an opponent after hypnotizing them. While the hypnosis seems to take some time to activate, skilled users can avoid this and train themselves to be capable of hypnotizing opponents with nothing more then just one wave of their swords, making the technique usable even the midst of intense and fast-paced battle. This style is so difficult to learn that it takes almost 15 years for one to fully master its use, some are just not talented enough to master the style and most would just stop at its basic techniques, so it's quite rare to meet an actual master of the style, there are however ways of excelerating the learning process such as training from a young age or through the use of Latent Potential another style that allows for unlocking the full power and potential of the mind. While the illusions seem to be only activated through visual stimuli, it is a fact that anyone who can feel and sense a user's sword's movements by any other means will be caught in the illusions as well.
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